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)

Appointed members

Appointed Ad-hoc members

 

Sub Committees

Action for Industry Subcommittee

  • Chair: John Matogo (Kenya)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Marios Antoniou (Cyprus)
    • Frederique Vallee (France)
    • Nihel ben Youssef (Tunisia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Kithinji Muriungi (Kenya)
    • Toni Mattila (Finland)
    • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus)
    • Cosmin Moisa (Romania)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Industry Engagement Committee: Bruno Meyer
    • IEEE Industry Engagement Committee: Mohammad Amin

Awards & Recognition Subcommittee

  • Chair: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
  • Members:
    • Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus)
    • Youmna El-bitar (Germany)
    • Almedin Kavaz (Germany)
    • Ana Cigaran (Germany)
    • Albert Lysko (South Africa)
    • Lee Crudgington (UK & Ireland)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Awards Board: Paolo Montuschi

Chapter Coordination Subcommittee

  • Chair: Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia)
  • Members:
    • Albert Lysko (South Africa)
    • Aleksandar Mastilovic (Serbia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Wynand Lambrechts (South Africa)
    • Matej Pacha (Czechoslovakia)
    • Anna Litvinenko (Latvia)
    • Toni Mattila (Finland)
    • SAC: Muhammad Al-Barham (Jordan)
    • YP: Rawan El Jamal (Lebanon)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • Division Directors from Region 8
      • Division VI Director: Paul M Cunningham (UK & Ireland)
    • Society/Council Presidents from Region 8
      • CAS President: Manuel Delgado-Restituto
      • CSS President: Thomas Parisini
      • DEIS President: Ryan Stewart
      • EdSoc President: Edmundo Tovar
      • IES President: Mariusz Malinowski
      • IMS President: Salvatore Baglio
      • ITSS President: Cristina Olaverri-Monreal
      • PCS President: Darina M Slattery

Conference Coordination Subcommittee

  • Chair: Habib Kammoun (Tunisia)
  • Members:
    • Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia)
    • Robert Bierwolf (Benelux)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Past Chair: Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia)
    • Tiziana Tambosso (Italy)
    • Eric Kuada (Ghana)
    • Albert Lysko (South Africa)
    • Ridha Hamila (Qatar)
    • Marios Antoniou (Cyprus)
    • Finance AdHoc subcommittee Liaison: Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Conferences Committee: Cecilia Metra
    • IEEE Conferences Committee: Paul Cunningham

Congress Coordination Team

  • Chair: Barbara Vujkov (Serbia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Inés Inácio (Benelux)
    • Ali Alfayly (Kuwait)
    • Sally Musonye (Kenya)
    • Almedin Kavaz (Germany)
    • Simay Akar (Turkey)

Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee

  • Chair: Abdulateef Aliyu (Nigeria)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: John Funso Adebayo (Nigeria)
    • Lavender Ndunya (Kenya)
    • SAC Liasion: Fairouz Fattoum (Tunisia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Manuel Ballesteros (Spain)
    • Heba Qadoomi (Jordan)
    • Miriam Cunningham (UK & Ireland)
    • Walid Bin Habib (Germany)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Humanitarian Activities: Simay Akar
    • IEEE Humanitarian Activities: Herbert Lwanga

Membership Development Subcommittee

  • Chair: Mike Hinchey (UK & Ireland)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)
    • Mohamed Sief El-Dien (Egypt)
    • Mohab Mangoud (Bahrain)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK & Ireland)
    • YP: Inês Inácio (Benelux)
    • ChCoord.SC: Aleksandar Mastilovic (Serbia)
    • SAC: Simay Akar (Turkey)
    • Mariya Antyufeyeva (Ukraine)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • MGA MRRC: Ievgen Pichkaliov

Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

  • Chair: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
  • Members – ex officio:
    • Antonio Luque (Spain)
    • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy)
  • Members – elected:
    • Levente Kovacs (Hungary)
    • Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)
    • Tiziana Tambosso (Italy)

Professional and Educational Activities Subcommittee

  • Chair: Conrad Attard (Malta)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece)
    • Nizar Rokbani (Tunisia)
    • Amith Khandakar (Oman)
  • Corresponding members:
    • WIE: Ana Margarida Trigo (Portugal)
    • Igor Matias (Portugal)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • Educational Activities Board: Rafal Sliz (Finland)

Region 8 News Subcommittee

  • EiC: Vinko Lesic (Croatia)
  • Co-EiC: Bernardo Tellini (Italy)
  • Editorial Board member: Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
  • Editorial Board member: Christopher James (UK&Ireland)
  • Editorial Board member: Maja Matijasevic (Croatia)

Standards Coordination Subcommittee

  • Chair: Tuncer Baykas (Turkey)
  • Corresponding members:
    • David Law (UK & Ireland)
    • Vikass Monebhurrun (France)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • Standards Association BoG: Walter Weigel
    • Standards Association BoG: David Law

Strategic Planning Subcommittee

  • Chair: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
  • Members:
    • George Papadimitriou (Greece)
    • Sohaib Sheikh (UK & Ireland)
    • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy)
    • Neecharl Ramprosand (Mauritius)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • MGA Strategic Planning Committee
    • Bostwana Sub Section Chair: Bokamoso Basutli
    • Burkina Faso Sub Section Chair: Hamadoun Tall
    • Kazakhstan Sub Section Chair: Ikechi Ukaegbu
    • Liberia Sub Section Chair: Umesh Neelakantan
    • Libya Sub Section Chair: Nasar Aldian Ambark Shashoa
    • Palestine Sub Section Chair: Mona Demaidi
    • Sudan Sub Section Chair: Sharief Babiker
    • Tanzania Sub Section Chair: Dennis Nestory Mwighusa
    • Yemen Sub Section Chair: Ammar Thabit Zahary

Student Activities Subcommittee

  • Chair: Simay Akar (Turkey)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Maciej Borowka (Poland)
    • Region Student Representative: Theodoros Chatzinikolaou (Greece)
    • Student Branch Coordinator: Davide Morgado (Portugal)
    • Electronic Communications: Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    • YP Liaison: Gerard Duff (Sweden)
    • Awards & Contest Coordinator: Lee Crudgington (UK & Ireland)
    • Student Branch Chapters Coordinator: Muhammad Al-Barham (Jordan)
    • Student Paper Contest Coordinator: Vera Markovic (Serbia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • HuAc Liasion & SIGHT University Groups Coordinator: Fairouz Fattoum (Tunisia)
    • WIE SB Coordinator: Sally Musonye (Kenya)
    • SB Counselors Coordinator: Godwin Ozor (Nigeria)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:

Women in Engineering Subcommittee

  • Chair: Maria Alexandra Paun (Switzerland)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Ana Cigaran (Germany)
    • Ana Margarida Trigo (Portugal)
    • Wafa Ben-Hmida (UK & Ireland)
    • Sally Musonye (Kenya)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Dora Fourou (Greece)
    • Kasi Nikolopoulou (Greece)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • YP: Seif Elhajjem (Tunisia)
    • IEEE Women in Engineering Committee: Lisa Lazareck-Asunta
    • IEEE Women in Engineering Committee: Samina Husain

Young Professionals Subcommittee

  • Chair: Almedin Kavaz (Germany)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Vinko Lesic (Croatia)
    • Rawane El-jamal (Lebanon)
    • Ali Alfayly (Kuwait)
    • Gerard Duff (Sweden)
    • Inês Inácio (Benelux)
    • Seif Elhajjem (Tunisia)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Barbara Vujkov (Serbia)
    • Tasneem Yousif (Bahrain)
    • Ayat Amr (Jordan)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Young Professionals Committee: Flavia Dinca
    • IEEE Young Professionals Committee: Cecilia Metra
    • IEEE Young Professionals Committee: Stefano Zanero
    • IEEE Young Professionals Committee: Simay Akar

 

Ad hoc Subcommittees

Careers New Initiative (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Gheith Abandah (Jordan)
  • Members:
    • Past Chair: Mona Ghassemian (UK & Ireland)
    • Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • Simay Akar (Turkey)
    • Alex Böhm (Germany)

Electronic Communications (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: George Michael (Cyprus)
  • Members:
    • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus)
    • Mohammad Hossein Babaee (Portugal)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Dora Fourou (Greece)
    • Mohamed Hatem Abdulkader (Egypt)
    • Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Entrepreneurship Initiative (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Rawane El-jamal (Lebanon)
  • Members:
    • Vice-Chair: Seif El Hajjem (Tunisia)
    • Conrad Attard (Malta)
  • Corresponding members:
    • John Matogo (Kenya)
    • Fairouz Fatoum (Tunisia)
    • Mohammad Hossein Babaee (Portugal)
    • Mohamad Zidan (Jordan)
    • Youcef Islem Malk (Algeria)
    • Umar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
    • Kithinji Muriungi (Kenya)
    • Ayat Amr (United Arab Emirates)
    • Khaled Zamzam (Egypt)
    • Andreea Mihailescu (Romania)

Finance (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Adam Jastrzebski (UK & Ireland)
  • Members:
    • Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
    • Pascal Lorenz (France)
    • Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
    • Andreas Koltes (Germany)

History Activities (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Martin Bastiaans (Benelux)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Tony Davies (UK & Ireland)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE History Committee: Antonio Savini (Italy)
    • IEEE History Committee: Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)
    • IEEE History Committee: Sergei Prokhorov (Russia)

Humanitarian Technology for Crises (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Nizar Rokbani (Tunisia)
  • Members:
    • Ali Alfaily (Kuwait)
    • Ezabo Baron (Uganda)
    • Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)
    • Iryna Ivasenko (Ukraine)
    • Shaun Kaplan (Germany)
    • Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia)
    • Matej Pacha (Czechoslovakia)
    • Lucian Toma (Romania)
    • Marcin Ziolek (Poland)
    • Clara Neppel (staff)

Life members (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Peter Magyar (Germany)
  • Corresponding members:
    • YP: Vinko Lesic (Croatia)
    • Victor Fouad Hannah (France)
    • Tony Davies (UK & Ireland)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • IEEE Life Members Committee: C W Turner

New Student Contests Initiative (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

Publications and Communications (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Adeel Sultan (United Arab Emirates)
  • Members:
    • George Michael (Cyprus)
    • Mohammad Hossein Babaee (Portugal)
    • Hazar Oklah (Jordan)
    • Sara Barros (Benelux)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:
    • Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)

Region 8 Today (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Hazar Oklah (Jordan)
  • Co-EiC (Past Chair): Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece)
  • Co-EiC: Fatima Zamil (Jordan)

Sections Vitality and Development (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair (Region Vitality Coordinator): Matej Zajc (‎Slovenia)
  • Members:
    • Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (Denmark)
    • Ana Madureira (Portugal)
  • Corresponding members:
    • Andreas Koltes (Germany)
    • Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)
    • Bostwana Sub Section Chair: Bokamoso Basutli
    • Burkina Faso Sub Section Chair: Hamadoun Tall
    • Kazakhstan Sub Section Chair: Ikechi Ukaegbu
    • Liberia Sub Section Chair: Umesh Neelakantan
    • Libya Sub Section Chair: Nasar Aldian Ambark Shashoa
    • Palestine Sub Section Chair: Mona Demaidi
    • Sudan Sub Section Chair: Sharief Babiker
    • Tanzania Sub Section Chair: Dennis Nestory Mwighusa
    • Yemen Sub Section Chair: Ammar Thabit Zahary
  • Corresponding members – ex officio:

Secretariat (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

  • Chair: Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia)
  • Members:
    • Ana Madureira (Portugal)
    • George Michael (Cyprus)