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)

 

Zone Representative: Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria)
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

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

  • Izzet Kale (UK&Ireland) (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)
  • Nadezhda Kunicina (Latvia) (C.Member)
  • 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)
  • Sergio Rapuano (Italy) (Liaison Member with IEEE Society/Technical Councils and National Activities)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

Entrepreneurship Committee

Finance Committee

History Activities (HA) Committee

Humanitarian Activities (HuAC) Committee

Life members (LM) Committee

Membership Development Committee

Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee

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

Student Activities Committee

  • Theodoros Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou (Greece) (Chair)
  • Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria) (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

Young Professionals Committee

 

Ad hoc Committees

 

Alternate membership payments (Ad Hoc Committee)

Careers New Initiative (Ad Hoc Committee)

Climate Change (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • René Garello (France) (Chair)
  • 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)
  • Bruno Meyer (France) (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)

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) (Ad Hoc Committee)

Electronic Communications (Ad Hoc Committee)

Fellow Members Search (Ad Hoc Committee)

IEEE Milestones Awareness (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)

Sections Congress Coordination

Social Media (Ad Hoc Committee)

Sections Vitality and Development

Secretariat (Ad Hoc Committee)

Senior Members Search (Ad Hoc Committee)

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)

Subsections Strategic Development (Ad Hoc Committee)

Territories in crisis (Ad Hoc Committee)

Volunteer Pipeline (Ad Hoc Committee)

Web (Ad Hoc Committee)