The IEEE Region 8 Committee consists of:
- Section representatives
- Operating Committee
- Appointed Members
Section Representatives
In the IEEE Region 8 Committee, Sections are represented by their Chairs. Section Chairs may appoint an alternate representative to the Region 8 Committee. The most recent list of Region 8 Sections and their representatives to the Region 8 Committee may be found here.
Operating Committee (OpCom)
Africa Council Chair: Isaac A. Adekanye (Nigeria)
R8 representative in Africa Council: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
Appointed members
Appointed Ad-hoc members
Committees
Action for Industry (AfI) Committee
- Nihel ben Youssef (Tunisia) (Chair)
- Toni Mattila (Finland) (Past Chair)
- Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) (Member)
- Mohamed Galal Khafagy (Egypt) (Member)
- Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK&Ireland) (C.Member)
- Serge Dos Santos (France) (C.Member)
- John Matogo (Kenya) (C.Member)
- Aida Elsabban (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Almedin Kavaz (Switzerland) (C.Member)
- Maria Efthimiou (Cyprus) (C.Member)
Awards & Recognition Committee
- Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (Chair)
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Emna Amri (France) (Member)
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Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Member)
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Lee Crudgington (Benelux) (Member)
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Mohamed Saeed Darweesh (Egypt) (Member)
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Samarth Deo (Sweden) (Member)
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Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (Member)
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Khaldoun Taktak (France) (Member)
Chapter Coordination Committee
- Lee Crudgington (Benelux) (Chair)
- Anna Litvinenko (Latvia) (Past Chair)
- Catarina Silva (Portugal) (Member)
- Muhammad Al-Barham (Sweden) (Member)
- Gaetano Zizzo (Italy) (C.Member)
- Sally Musonye (Kenya) (C.Member)
- Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (C.Member)
- Eduardo Audiche (UK & Ireland) (C.Member)
- Mousa AL-Akhras (Jordan) (C.Member)
- Krishna Ajith Kumar (United Arab Emirates) (C.Member)
Conference Coordination Committee
- Rene Garello (France) (Chair)
- Tiziana Tambosso (Italy) (Past Chair)
- Ibrahim Kucukdemiral (UK & Ireland) (Member)
- Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia) (Member)
- Tulay Yildirim (Turkey) (C.Member)
- Albert Lysko (South Africa) (C.Member)
- Filippo Sanfilippo (Norway) (C.Member)
- Ahmed Hasan (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Abdelhamid Iratni (Algeria) (C.Member)
- François Rivet (France) (C.Member)
- Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus) (C.Member)
- Nadezhda Kunicina (Latvia) (C.Member)
- Sergio Rapuano (Italy) (C. Member and Liaison with IEEE Society/Technical Councils and National Activities)
- Toni Mattila (Finland) (Liaison Member with Action for Industry Committee)
- Pascal Lorenz (France) (Liaison Member with Finance Committee)
- Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) (Liaison Member with Climate Change Committee)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Entrepreneurship Committee
- Rawane El-jamal (UK&Ireland) (Chair)
- Vinko Lešić (Croatia) (Member)
- Seif Elhajjem (Tunisia) (Member)
- Mohamad Zidan (Jordan) (Member)
- Khaled Zamzam (Egypt) (Member)
- Marco Giordani (Italy) (Member)
- Hend Kmiha (France) (Member)
- Cynthia Chepchirchir (Kenya) (C.Member)
- Vildana Hrnjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (C.Member)
- Ayat Amr (UAE) (C.Member)
- Umar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria) (C.Member)
- Cyiza Augustin (Rwanda) (C.Member)
- Dennis Mwighusa (Tanzania) (C.Member)
Finance Committee
- Adam Jastrzebski (UK & Ireland) (Chair)
- Pascal Lorenz (France) (Member)
- Andreas Koltes (Germany) (Member)
- Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (ex-officio)
- Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (ex-officio)
History Activities (HA) Committee
- Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) (Chair)
- Antonio Savini (Italy) (C.Member)
- Evgen Pichkalyov (Ukraine) (C.Member)
- Sergei Prokhorov (Russia) (C.Member)
- Tony Davies (UK & Ireland) (C.Member)
- Mathini Sellathurai (UK & Ireland) (C.Member)
Humanitarian Technology Activities (HuAC) Committee
- Samarth Deo (Sweden) (Chair)
- George Papadimitriou (Switzerland) (Member)
- Lucija Brezočnik (Slovenia) (Member)
- Omar Salameh (Jordan) (Member)
- Nour Sbaoulji (Tunisia) (Member)
- Abdulla Al-kaff (Spain) (C.Member)
- Resala Abdulla Aladraj (Bahrain) (C.Member)
- Ahmed Ayman (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Fairouz Fattoum (France) (C.Member)
- Kai Goodall (South Africa) (C.Member)
- Theodoros Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou (Greece) (C.Member, Past Chair)
Life members (LM) Committee
- Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain) (Chair)
- Péter Magyar (Germany) (C.Member, Past Chair)
- Michael Omoigui Osaretin (C.Member)
- Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (C.Member)
- Grigoris Papagiannis (C.Member)
- Antonio Savini (C.Member)
- Margaretha Eriksson (C.Member)
- Luc Claesen (C.Member)
- Irina Naidionova (C.Member)
Membership Development Committee
- Mohab Mangoud (Bahrain) (Chair)
- Mohamed Sief Mahmoud (Egypt) (Member)
- Peter Nagy (Hungary) (Member)
- Nadine Abbas (Lebanon) (Member)
- Katerina Ivanko (Ukraine) (C.Member)
- Grigore Stamatescu (Romania) (C.Member)
- Hela Lajmi (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Thomas Kopfstedt (Germany) (C.Member)
- Humphrey Muhindi (Kenya) (C.Member)
Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee
- Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (Chair)
- Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Member)
- Hadi Kanaan (Lebanon Section) (Member)
- Lucian Toma (Romania Section) (Member)
- Ahmed Hassan Yousef (Egypt Section) (Member)
Professional and Educational Activities Committee
- Dalius Navakauskas (Lithuania) (Chair)
- Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (Past Chair)
- Natalia Piaseczna (Poland) (Member)
- Dora Fourou (Greece) (Member)
- Rabih Rammal (Lebanon) (C.Member)
- Jenipher Ogara (Kenya) (C.Member)
- Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece) (C.Member)
- Igor Matias (Switzerland) (C.Member)
Publications and Communications Committee
Strategic Planning Committee
- Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (Chair)
- Dushanka Boscovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Member)
- Magdalena Salazar-Palma (Spain) (Member)
- Marios Antoniou (Cyprus) (Member)
- Vinko Lesic (Croatia) (Member)
- Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria) (C.Member)
- Habib Kammoun (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Jan Haase (Germany) (C.Member)
- Pawel Prajzendanc (Poland) (C.Member)
- Omer Melih Gul () (C.Member)
Student Activities Committee
- Theodoros Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou (Greece) (Chair)
- Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria) (Member, Past Chair)
- Abdulrahman Mohammed (Egypt) (Member)
- Khaldoun Taktak (France) (Member)
- Ala Chalghaf (Tunisia) (Member)
- Martyna Borak (Poland) (Member)
- Vera Markovic (Serbia and Montenegro) (C.Member)
- Iraqi Ali (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Neemat Abdelrahman (Sudan) (C.Member)
- Oussema Fitouri (France) (C.Member)
- Krishna Ajith Kumar (United Arab Emirates) (C.Member)
- Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (C.Member)
- Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Fay Majid Elhassan (Germany) (C.Member)
- Ahmed Ayman Abouelnour (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Cybele Ghanem (Lebanon) (C.Member)
- Athanasios Kakarountas (Greece) (C.Member)
Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee
- Emna Amri (France) (Chair)
- Wafa Ben-Hmida (UK&Ireland) (Member, Past Chair)
- Jani Dugonik (Slovenia) (Member)
- Margarida Trigo (Portugal) (Member)
- Larissa Abi Nakhle (Lebanon) (Member)
- Hazar Al Mhaseess (UAE) (Member)
- Mistura Muibi-TijaniView (Nigeria) (Member)
- Agnieszka Zagozdzinska-Bochenek (Switzerland) (C.Member)
- Houda Chakiri (Morocco) (C.Member)
- Fatma Alzamel (Saudi Arabia) (C.Member)
- Baya Bouchaala (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Ala Khalifeh (Jordan) (C.Member)
- Baha Eddine Hammou (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Maya Alawar (France) (C.Member)
Young Professionals Committee
- Mohamed Saeed Darweesh (Egypt) (Chair)
- Ines Inacio (Benelux) (Member, Past Chair)
- Ali Alfayly (Kuwait) (Member)
- Ahsan Qamer (Germay) (Member)
- Cybele Ghanem (Lebanon) (Member)
- Georgia Saridaki (Greece) (Member)
- Moataz Alaa (Egypt) (Member)
- Mona Demaidi (Palestine) (C.Member)
- Sameh Betamony (France) (C.Member)
- Mustafa Aqrabawe (Jordan) (C.Member)
- Ferial Saied (France) (C.Member)
Ad hoc Committees
Climate Change (Ad Hoc Committee)
- René Garello (France), Bruno Meyer (France) (Chairs)
- Cybele Ghanam (Lebanon) (C.Member)
- Massimo La Scala (Italy) (C.Member)
- Abdellah Kouzou (Algeria) (C.Member)
- Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) (C.Member)
- Sneha Satish Hegde (France) (C.Member)
- Sigmund Kluckner (Austria) (C.Member)
- Nour Sbaoulji (Tunisia) (C.Member)
Cooperation with IEEE S/TCs and National Associations (Ad Hoc Committee)
- Marios Antoniou (Cyprus) (Chair)
- Peter Nagy (Hungary) (Past Chair)
- Valentina Markova (Bulgaria) (C.Member)
- Christoph Baer (Germany) (C.Member)
- Levente Kovacs (Hungary) (C.Member)
- Shmuel Auster (Israel) (C.Member)
- Boris Dumnic (Serbia) (C.Member)
- Robert Bierwolf (Benelux) (C.Member)
- Sergio Rapuano (Italy) (C.Member)
Electronic Communications (Ad Hoc Committee)
New Social Media (Ad Hoc Committee)
R8 Advisory (Ad Hoc Committee)
Region 8 News
Region 8 Today (Ad Hoc Committee)
Student Awards and Contests (Ad Hoc Committee)
- Khaldoun Taktak (France) (Chair)
- Vera Markovic (Serbia and Montenegro) (Member, Past Chair)
- Iraqi Ali (Egypt) (Member)
- Haris Čapelj (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (C.Member)
- Yahya Al Balushi (Oman) (C.Member)
- Alkiviadis Michalitsis (Greece) (C.Member)
- Tawfik Sallemi (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Qusai Mashriqi (Jordan) (C.Member)
Student Branch Leadership Support (Ad Hoc Committee)
- Ala Chalghaf (Tunisia) (Chair)
- Neemat Abdelrahman (Sudan) (Member)
- Oussema Fitouri (France) (Member)
- Krishna Ajith Kumar (United Arab Emirates) (Member)
- Gina Paola Carrillo Castro (Norway) (C.Member)
- Andre Cakici (Germany) (C.Member)
- Matteo Bruno Lodi (Italy) (C.Member)
- Harout Topjian (Lebanon) (C.Member)
- Martijn Dendooven (Benelux) (C.Member)
- Wadee Haj Ali (Palestine) (C.Member)
Student Experience Portfolio Initiatives (Ad Hoc Committee)
- Martyna Borak (Poland) (Chair)
- Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Member, Past Chair)
- Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia) (Member)
- Fay Majid Elhassan (Germany) (Member)
- Sahar Youssef (Tunisia) (C.Member)
- Abdulhameed Raji (United Kingdom and Ireland) (C.Member)
- Seie Vasiliki Soula (Greece) (C.Member)
- Gasser Amr Ahmad Mohmad (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Jafar Alkhadrawi (Jordan) (C.Member)
- Antony Gitau (Kenya) (C.Member)
- Davide Morgado (Portugal) (C.Member)
Social Media (Ad Hoc Committee)
Sections Vitality and Development
- Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (Region Vitality Coordinator)
- Albert Lysko (South Africa) (Member)
- Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece) (Member)
- Ana Maria Madureira (Portugal) (C.Member, Past Chair)
- Ievgen Pichkalov (Ukraine) (C.Member)
- Ahmed Hassan Yousef (Egypt) (C.Member)
- Andreas Koltes (Germany) (C.Member)
- Mohab Mangoud (Bahrain) (C.Member)
- Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia) (C.Member)
- Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) (C.Member)
Secretariat (Ad Hoc Committee)
- Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia) (Chair)
- Aniko Szakal (Hungary) (Member)
- George Michael (Cyprus) (Member)
- Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus) (Member)
- Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) (C.Member)
- Martyna Borak (Poland) (C.Member)
Standards Coordination Committee
- Mona Ghassemian (UK&Ireland) (Chair)
- David Law (UK & Ireland) (C.Member)
- Tuncer Baykas (Turkey) (C.Member)
- Albena Mihovska (Bulgaria) (C.Member)
- Paulo Goncalves (Portugal) (C.Member)
- Meng Lu (Benelux) (C.Member)
- Shmuel Auster (Israel) (C.Member)
- Ali Hessami (UK&Ireland) (C.Member)
- Clara Neppel (Germany) (C.Member)
Volunteer Pipeline (Ad Hoc Committee)
