Council Standing Committees

In accordance with Article 10(6) of the ELI Statute, the Membership Committee (MC) and the Fundraising Committee (FC) were established as standing committees of the Council and entrusted with the tasks specified below.

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee was established by Council Decision 2011/11. The Council has delegated the following tasks and powers to the Membership Committee:

  • To develop a structured policy for the recruitment of new members, in particular for targeting underrepresented countries, disciplines and professions
  • To negotiate, as far as necessary, membership fees with institutions  
  • To decide cases of doubt as well as advise the Secretariat in dealing with difficult requests

Current Members

  • Despoina Anagnostopoulou
  • Susanne Augenhofer
  • Lorena Bachmaier Winter
  • Ewa Bagińska
  • Başak Başoğlu
  • Teresa Bielska-Sobkowicz
  • Robert Bray
  • Christoph Busch
  • Valentina Calderai
  • Michel Cannarsa
  • Georges Cavalier
  • Sara Cockerill
  • Paul Craig QC (Hon)
  • Nada Dollani
  • Christiana Fountoulakis
  • Gianluca Grasso
  • Laura Guercio
  • Geraint Howells
  • André Janssen
  • Francisco Javier Jiménez Muñoz
  • Paul Keane
  • Bernhard Koch
  • Xandra Kramer
  • María Lubomira Kubica
  • Piotr Machnikowski
  • Oliver Mader
  • Maria Rosaria Maugeri
  • Svitlana Mazepa
  • William M McKechnie
  • Matthias Neumayr
  • Francesco Paolo Patti
  • Fausto Pocar
  • Sylvaine Poillot Peruzzetto
  • Ilaria Pretelli
  • Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Chair)
  • Albert Ruda
  • Marta Santos Silva
  • Jens Scherpe
  • Ulrich G Schroeter
  • Anna Skrjabina
  • Tamás Szabados
  • Camelia Toader
  • Ivan Tot
  • Laura Valle
  • Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska
  • Aleš Zalar

Fundraising Committee

The Fundraising Committee was established by Council Decision 2011/14. The Council has delegated the following tasks and powers to the Fundraising Committee:

  • To sound out ways to attract additional funds for the work of ELI from sources compatible with the principle of independence
  • To support and advise the Treasurer in matters concerning the financial situation of ELI 

Current Members

  • Despoina Anagnostopoulou
  • Lorena Bachmaier Winter
  • Başak Başoğlu (Co-Chair)
  • Hugh Beale
  • Robert Bray
  • Valentina Calderai
  • Georges Cavalier
  • Mario Comba
  • Christiana Fountoulakis
  • Hristina Georgieva
  • Miguel Gimeno Ribes
  • Laura Guercio
  • Geraint Howells (Co-Chair)
  • André Janssen
  • Paul Keane
  • María Lubomira Kubica
  • Piotr Machnikowski
  • William M McKechnie
  • Francesco Paolo Patti
  • Fausto Pocar
  • Sylvaine Poillot Peruzzetto
  • Ilaria Pretelli
  • Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
  • Albert Ruda
  • Marta Santos Silva
  • Hans Schulte-Nölke
  • Pietro Sirena (Co-Chair)
  • Anna Skrjabina
  • Camelia Toader
  • Laura Valle
  • Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska
  • Aleš Zalar