Executive Committee

The Executive Committee implements the grouping's objectives and activities:

• implements the grouping's strategy and policies decided by the ERCIM Board of Directors
• proposes new strategy and policies to the Board of Directors
• monitors the ERCIM activities, the operation of the ERCIM office, of the ERCIM working groups and of all projects where ERCIM undertakes legal obligations
• reviews reports and draft budgets prepared by the ERCIM Manager and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors
• acts as the principal forum in which members liaise through their representatives with the President, the Manager and each other.

The Executive Committee is presided over by the Chairman and includes the Secretary and a representative from each member of the grouping.

Current Members of the ERCIM Executive Committee:

Member		Representing	Activity/coordination	Task Group membership
	Eckart Bierdümpel, Chairman Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany eckart.bierduempelercim.org	FhG		Strategy, Finance, Public Relations, External Relations
	Dick Broekhuis, Vice-chairman Financial Controller at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands dick.broekhuisercim.org	CWI		Finance, Structural
	Mark Roantree, Vice-chairman Interoperable Systems Group, Dublin City University, Ireland mark.roantreeercim.org	IUA	Working Groups	Projects
	Antonis Argyros Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece antonis.argyrosercim.org	FORTH
	Finn Arve Aagesen Professor at Department of Telematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway finn.arve.aagesenercim.org	NTNU		Human Resources Managers
	Jean-Pierre Banâtre Director of European Partnerships at INRIA, France jean-pierre.banatreercim.org	INRIA		Projects
	Henning Christiansen Professor of Computer Science at Roskilde University, Denmark henning.christiansenercim.org	DANAIM
	João Falcão e Cunha Professor of Information Systems University of Porto Faculty of Engineering	PEG
	Patrick Furrer Vice Director Euresearch, Switzerland patrick.furrerercim.org	SARIT		Projects
	Janusz Launberg Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden janusz.launbergercim.org	SICS		Projects
	Vaclav Matyas Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic vaclav.matyasercim.org	CRCIM
	Pedro Merino University of Málaga, Spain pedro.merinoercim.org	SpaRCIM		Public Relations
	László Monostori SZTAKI laszlo.monostoriercim.org	SZTAKI	Cor-Baayen Award
	Marek Piotrów Institute of Computer Science University of Wrocław marek.piotrowercim.org	PLERCIM
	Jean-Jacques Quisquater Head of the Crypto Group, Microelectronics Laboratory, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium	FNRS/FWO
	Fausto Rabitti Research Director at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy fausto.rabittiercim.org	CNR
	Erwin Schoitsch IT-Research, ARC Seibersdorf research, Austria erwin.schoitschercim.org	AARIT	Chair of the ERCIM Working Group "Dependable Software-Intensive Embedded Systems"	Public Relations
	Leon van der Torre Professor at the Department of Computer Science FTST of the University of Luxembourg leon.vandertorreercim.org	FNR		Human Resources Managers,
	Michael Wilson Manager, UK & Ireland Office of W3C CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory michael.wilsonercim.org	STFC		Finance
	Gilbert Kalb, Secretary to the Executive Committee Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany gilbert.kalbercim.org	FhG

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