Committee

Committee and Contacts

 in Committee
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)
  • Mohamed Galal Khafagy (Egypt) (Member)
  • Aida Elsabban (Egypt) (Member)
  • Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK & Ireland) (Member)
  • John Matogo (Kenya) (C.Member)
  • Serge Dos Santos (France) (C.Member)
  • Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) (C. Member)
  • Werner Drexel (Austria) (C.Member)
  • Maria Efthimiou (Cyprus) (C.Member)

Awards & Recognition Committee

  • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (Chair)
  • Emna Amri (France) (Member)
  • Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Member)
  • Lee Crudgington (Benelux) (Member)
  • Mohamed Saeed Darweesh (Egypt) (Member)
  • Samarth Deo (Sweden) (Member)
  • Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (Member)
  • 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)
  • Eduardo Audiche (UK & Ireland) (Member)
  • Gaetano Zizzo (Italy) (C.Member)
  • Sally Musonye (Kenya) (C.Member)
  • Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (C.Member)
  • Mousa AL-Akhras (Jordan) (C.Member)
  • Krishna Ajith Kumar (United Arab Emirates) (C.Member)
  • Paulo Goncalves (Portugal) (C. Member)

Conference Coordination Committee

  • Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus) (Chair)
  • René Garello (France) (Past Chair)
  • Ahmed Hasan (Egypt) (Member)
  • Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia) (Member)
  • Humphrey Muhindi (Kenya) (C.Member)
  • Filippo Sanfilippo (Norway) (C.Member)
  • Sergio Rapuano (Italy) (C. Member and Liaison with IEEE Society/Technical Councils and National Activities)
  • Albena Mihovska (Denmark) (C. Member)
  • TBA () (Liaison with R8 Finance Committee)
  • Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) (Liaison with R8 Flagship and Portfolio Conferences)
  • Tiziana Tambosso (Italy) (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Shmuel Auster (Israel) (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Meng Lu (Benelux) (Ex-Officio Member)

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)
  • Jenipher Ogara (Kenya) (Member)
  • Dora Fourou (Greece) (Member)
  • Rabih Rammal (Lebanon) (C.Member)
  • Natalia Piaseczna (Poland) (C. Member)
  • Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia) (C.Member)
  • Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece) (C.Member)
  • Igor Matias (Switzerland) (C.Member)
  • Kseniia Minakova (Ukraine) (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)
  • Feriel Saied (Benelux) (Member)
  • Moataz Alaa (Egypt) (Member)
  • Georgia Saridaki (Greece) (C. Member)
  • Sameh Betamony (France) (C.Member)
  • Mustafa Aqrabawe (Jordan) (C.Member)
  • Maxwell Addison (Ghana) (C.Member)
  • Kseniia Minakova (Ukraine) (C.Member)
  • Nadine Jellali (Tunisia) (C.Member)

 

Ad hoc Committees

 

Climate Change (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • René Garello (France) (Chair)
  • Bruno Meyer (France) (Past Chair)
  • Cybele Ghanam (Lebanon) (C.Member)
  • Massimo La Scala (Italy) (C.Member)
  • Abdellah Kouzou (Algeria) (C.Member)
  • Sneha Satish Hegde (France) (C.Member)
  • Sigmund Kluckner (Austria) (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)
  • Udochukwu Bola Akuru (South Africa) (C.Member)
  • Shmuel Auster (Israel) (C.Member)
  • Hadi Kanan (Lebanon) (C.Member)
  • Robert Bierwolf (Benelux) (C.Member)
  • Sergio Rapuano (Italy) (C.Member)
  • Mladen Koprivica (Serbia) (C.Member)
  • Nadežda Kuņicina (Latvia) (C.Member)

R8 Advisory (Ad Hoc Committee)

R8 Flagship and Portfolio Conferences (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) (Chair)
  • Tiziana Tambosso (Italy) (C.Member)
  • Albert Lisko (South Africa) (C.Member)
  • Giambattista Gruosso (Italy) (C.Member)
  • René Garello (France) (C.Member)
  • Ibrahim Kucukdemiral (UK & Ireland) (C.Member)
  • Vinko Lesic (Croatia) (C.Member and Liaison with Finance 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 (UK & 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)

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)
  • Werner Drexel (Austria) (Member)
  • George Michael (Cyprus) (Member)
  • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus) (Member)
  • Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) (C.Member)
  • Martyna Borak (Poland) (C.Member)

Volunteer Pipeline (Ad Hoc Committee)