Committee and Contacts

• 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)

• Director: Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
• Director-Elect: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
• Past-Director: Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus)
• Secretary: Jan Verveckken (Benelux)
• Treasurer: Ralph Kennel (Germany)
• Vice-Chair, Member Activities: Antonio Luque (Spain)
• Vice-Chair, Student Activities: Efthymia Arvaniti (Austria)
• Vice-Chair, Technical Activities: Christopher James (UK and Ireland)

Appointed members

• Awards & Recognition: Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus)
• Chapters: Amara Amara (France)
• Conferences: Péter Nagy (Hungary)
• Educational Activities: Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK and Ireland)
• Action for Industry: Marios Antoniou (Cyprus)
• Membership Development: Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia)
• Professional Activities: Jan Haase (Germany)
• Region 8 News: Alistair Dabbs, Bojan Nikolic, Zhijia Huang, Roland Saam (UK and Ireland)
• Standards Coordinator: David Law (UK and Ireland)
• Student Representative: Ines Inacio (Benelux)
• Young Professionals: Sara Barros (Benelux)

Ad-hoc members

• Past Treasurer: Brian Harrington (UK and Ireland)
• Electronic Communications: George Michael (Cyprus)
• Assistant Secretary – Social Media and Web pages: Dora Fourou (Greece)
• History Activities: Tony Davies (UK and Ireland)
• Life Members: Victor Fouad-Hanna (France)
• Women in Engineering: Youmna El-Bitar (Lebanon)
• Region Vitality Coordinator: Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia)
• Section Vitality: Adam Jastrzebski (UK and Ireland)
• Voluntary Contribution Fund: Andreas Koltes (Germany)
• Africa Area Chair: Gloria Chukwudebe (Nigeria)

Sub Committees

Action for Industry Team

• Marios Antoniou (Cyprus) – Chair
• Mohamed Amin (Egypt)
• John Matogo (Kenya)
• Per Kristian Roeren Lien (Norway)
• Andreas Neumeier (Germany)
• Danilo Pau (Italy)
• Ali Hessami (UK and Ireland)

Awards & Recognition Subcommittee

• Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) – Chair
• Jaafar M. Al Ibrahim (Saudia Arabia)
• Igor Kuzle (Croatia)
• Piotr Graca (Poland)
• Athanasios Skodras (Greece)
• Marko Delimar (Croatia) – Past Chair

Chapter Coordination Subcommittee

• Amara Amara (France) – Chair
• Ruba Aburub (Jordan) – Student Branch Chapters
• Maria Trocan (France) – corresponding member

Conference Coordination Subcommittee

• Péter Nagy (Hungary) – Chair
• Adel Alimi (Tunisia) – Past Chair
• Shawn Kaplan (South Africa)
• Tomislav Capuder (Croatia)

Educational Activities Subcommittee

• Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK and Ireland) – Chair
• Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece) – Pre-University Education
• Ana Madureira (Portugal) – University Education/Industry
• Endika Bengoetxea (Spain) – Continuing Education – corresponding member
• Alexander Astaras (Greece) – University Education – corresponding member
• Riadh Besbes (Tunisia) – corresponding member
• Saurabh Sinha (South Africa) – ex-officio – corresponding member (IEEE EA comm.)

Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee

• John Funso-Adebayo (Nigeria) – Chair
• Dinko Jakovljević (Croatia)
• Alexandros Osana (Greece)
• Lebogang Madise (South AFrica)
• Lee Crudgington (UK and Ireland) – corresponding member
• Amith Khandakar (Oman) – corresponding member
• Sana Khalfa (Tunisia) – corresponding member
• Mona Ghassemian (UK and Ireland) – corresponding member

Membership Development Subcommittee

• Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) – Chair
• Adeel Sultan (United Arab Emirates) – Past Chair
• Tim Gitau (Kenya) – corresponding member
• Azza Ouled Zaid (Tunisia) – corresponding member
• Matej Pacha (Czechoslovakia) – corresponding member
• Ievgen Pichkalov (Ukraine)
• John Matogo (Kenya) – corresponding member
• Fadhel Abulhasan (Kuwait) – corresponding member
• Albert Lysko (South Africa) – corresponding member

Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

• Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) – Chair – ex-officio
• Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden) – ex-officio
• Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain) – ex-officio
• Panayiotis Symeou (Cyprus)
• Ali Hessami (UK and Ireland)
• Ljupco Karadzinov (Macedonia)

Professional Activities Subcommittee

• Jan Haase (Germany) – Chair
• Shashank Gaur (Portugal)
• Bassem El Meleegy (Bahrain)
• Ana Katalinić Mucalo (Croatia) – corresponding member
• Francisco Escribano (Spain) – corresponding member
• Urmet Janes (Estonia) – corresponding member
• Feras Diab (Jordan) – corresponding member
• Matej Zajc (Slovenia) – corresponding member

Strategic Planning Subcommittee

• Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain) – Chair
• Costas Stasopoulos (Cyrpus) – ex-officio
• Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden) – ex-officio
• Daniel Pasquet (France)
• Khaled Moktar (Egypt)
• Dovile Kurpyte (Lithuania)
• Gloria Chukwudebe (Nigeria)

Student Activities Subcommittee

• Efthymia Arvaniti (Austria) – Chair
• Yara Melki (Lebanon) – Awards & Contests Coordinator
• José Miguel A. Sepulcre (Spain) – Electronic Communications
• Sarra Ben Rabii (Tunisia) – Student Branch Coordinator
• Ines Inacio (Benelux) – Region Student Representative
• Paul Micallef (Malta) – Student Paper Contest Coordinator
• George Papadimitriou (Greece) – Projects
• Mona Ghassemian (UK and Ireland) – Past Chair

Women in Engineering Coordinator

• Youmna El-Bitar (Lebanon) – Chair
• Taqua Khairy (Cyprus) – Past Chair – corresponding member
• Lebogang Madise (South Africa) – corresponding member
• Randa Hammami (Tunisia) – corresponding member
• Maria Alexandra Paun (Swiss) – corresponding member
• Joyce Mwangama (South Africa) – ex-officio – corresponding member (MGA WiE)

Young Professionals Subcommittee

• Sara Barros (Benelux) – Chair
• Mohamed El-Dallal (Egypt)
• Skander Mansouri (Tunisia)
• Vinko Lesic (Croatia)
• Almedin Kavaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Flavia Dinca (Sweden) – Past Chair
• Rafal Sliz (Finland) – ex-officio – corresponding member (MGA YP)
• Rui Costa (Portugal) – corresponding member

Africa Area (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

• Gloria Chukwudebe (Nigeria) – Chair
• Vincent Kaabunga (Uganda) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Dorothy Kabagaju Okello (Uganda) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• George Eduful (Ghana) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Izael Pereira Da Silva (Kenya) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Joseph Mutale (UK and Ireland) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Margaretha A Eriksson (Sweden) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Nelson M Ijumba (Rwanda) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)
• Towela Nyirenda (Malawi) – ex-officio – corresponding member(IEEE board)

Region Vitality Coordination (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

• Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia) – Chair
• Adeel Sultan (United Arab Emirates) – corresponding member
• Andreas Koltes (Germany) – corresponding member
• Humphrey Muhindi (Kenya) – corresponding member

History Activities

• Tony Davies (UK and Ireland) – Chair
• Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) – corresponding member
• Roland Saam (UK and Ireland) – corresponding member
• Antonio Perez Yuste (Spain) – ex-officio – corresponding member (IEEE MGA)

Life members

• Victor Fouad-Hanna (France) – Chair
• Hugo Wyss (Swiss) – corresponding member
• Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia) – ex-officio – corresponding member (IEEE MGA Life member comm.)
• Charles Turner (UK and Ireland) – ex-officio – corresponding member (IEEE MGA Life member comm.)