EBCO Board

The online General Assembly of EBCO, on 28 October 2023, has elected EBCO’s board for the next three years:

Board / Maximum 15 members according to the rules of the association

  1. President: Alexia Tsouni (GR)
  2. Vice-president:  Sam Biesemans (BE)
  3. Vice-president: Merve Arkun (TU)
  4. Treasurer: Jean Louis Vander Heyden (BE)
  5. Secretary: Theodoros Diamantidis (GR)
  6. Archives & history: Guido Grünewald (DE)
  7. Saša Belik (RU) ; Delegate to the European Youth Forum
  8. Gina Chappa (CY)
  9. Piet Dörflinger (CH)
  10. Murat Kanatlı (CY nord/north)
  11. Olga Karatch (BE)
  12. Eric Sapin (FR)
  13. Yurii Sheliazhenko (UA)
  14. Jyry Virtanen (FI)

Members of the GA with special responsibility and with consultative status to the Board:

  1. Coordination with the Council of Europe: Friedhelm Schneider (DE)
  2. Coordination with the United Nations: Zaira Zafarana (IT)
  3. Communications Officer: Angelos Nikolopoulos (GR)

Other Members of the GA with consultative status to the Board:

  1. Derek Brett (CH)
  2. Diego Cipriani (IT)
  3. Yannis Chryssoverghis (GR)
  4. Hans Dijkman (NL)
  5. Daniel Drake (DE)
  6. Davut Erkan (TR)
  7. Yannis Glarnetatzis (GR)
  8. Carla Goffi (BE)
  9. Ruslan Kotsaba (UA)
  10. Serguey Krivenko (RU)
  11. Martina Lanza (IT)
  12. Michalis Maragakis (GR)
  13. Maria Alexandrova (RU)
  14. Maurice Montet (FR)
  15. Lazaros Petromelidis (GR)
  16. Elena Popova (RU)
  17. Semih Sapmaz (UK)
  18. Jordi Tolrà (E)
  19. Jan Van Criekinge (BE)
  20. Ria Verjauw (BE)
  21. Claude Verrel (FR)

Permanent observers:

  1. QUNO represented by Laurel Townhead (CH)
  2. QCEA represented by Andrew Lane (BE)

Sympathising and corresponding members:

  1. Jean Jacqmain (BE)
  2. Mao Valpiana (IT)