07/06/2010

Election of new Vice Presidents and new Steering Committee Members

Two new Vice Presidents and two new Steering Committee Members were elected at the General Assembly meeting on 29th May 2010 in Frankfurt. The new Vice Presidents are André Syrota (The National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France) and Frank Gannon (Science Foundation Ireland, his term will start in autumn 2010). The new SC members are Véronique Halloin (Fund for Scientific Research – FNRS, Belgium) and Jos Engelen (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).

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), Matthias Kleiner (The German Research Foundation), Nüket Yetis (The Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey), Franci Demšar (The Slovenian Research Agency) and Luciano Maiani (The National Research Council, Italy).
The Steering Committee serves the role of an executive body of the General Assembly and meets at least four times a year.