TEA served at 4:00 pm, before the meeting.

TRÂN-THI-KIM-DIÊU, born in 1949, joined the TS in 1972. She is post-graduate in Pharmaceutical Technology. She is Chairperson of the European Federation and General Secretary of the French Section. She has been giving monthly courses at Paris Headquarters since 1987, worked at Adyar international HQ, has been helping to publish theosophical literature in Russian, Hungarian, Estonian, Slovenian, Croatian and has revived TS activities in Eastern Europe. She has been guest-speaker at summer schools, seminars and congresses, European School of Theosophy, Krotona Institute, School of the Wisdom Adyar. She has toured New-Zealand (including Singapore, the Philippines), Australia, Canada. She regularly conducts meditation retreats in Europe. Her main concern is to promote an authentic way of living guided by universal ethics and mystic dimensions of consciousness.