04/05/2009

Election of New Steering Committee Members

Four new SC members were elected at the General Assembly meeting on 23 April 2009 in Berne, Switzerland. The new members are Ebba Nexø, (The Danish Councils for Independent Research), Frank Gannon (Science Foundation Ireland), Franci Demšar (The Slovenian Research Agency) and Luciano Maiani (The National Research Council, Italy).

They join the current members of the Steering Committee, who are President Dieter Imboden (Swiss National Science Foundation), Vice President Leszek Borysiewicz (Medical Research Council, United Kingdom), Vice President Arnold Migus (The National Center for Scientific Research, France), Matthias Kleiner (The German Research Foundation) and Nüket Yetis (The Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey).

The Steering Committee serves the role of an executive body of the General Assembly and meets at least four times a year.