Current Executive Committee Members
Sandra Kucina Softic
President of EDEN 2019 – to present
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2013 – 2019
(University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Josep M. Duart
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – to present
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Timothy Read
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – to present
(National Distance Education University – UNED, Spain)
Elena Caldirola
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – to present
(University of Pavia, Italy)
Alfredo Soeiro
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2019 – to present
(University of Porto, Portugal)
Willem van Valkenburg
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021 – to present
(Executive Director TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education)
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – to present
(Co-Operative State University Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Don Olcott, Jr.
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021 – to present
(Global Higher Education Consultant, Romania)
Vlad Mihaescu
CHAIR OF THE NAP STEERING COMMITTEE, EX OFFICIO MEMBER
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2020 – to present,
(University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania)
Past Executive Committee Members
Denise Whitelock
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021
(Interim Director for the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University)
Mark Brown
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2021
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
Helga Dorner
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2021
(Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Airina Volungeviciene
President of EDEN 2016 – 2019
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
(Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Diana Andone
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2021
(Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Ebba Ossiannilsson
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2021
(Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE), Sweden)
Antonio M. Teixeira
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2008 – 2016
(Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Antonella Poce
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2017 – 2020
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy)
Rebecca Galley
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – 2021
(The Open University, UK)
Belinda Tynan
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2016
(The Open University, UK)
Lisa Marie Blaschke
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2018
(Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
Mark Nichols
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2018
(The Open University, UK)
Deborah Arnold
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
(Université Nancy 2, France)
Wim Van Petegem
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2009 – 2018
(K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Fabio Nascimbeni
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2018
(Universidad Internacional de la Rioja – UNIR, Spain)
Alan Bruce
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2009 – 2015
(Universal Learning Systems, Ireland)
Grainne Conole
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2015
(University of Leicester, UK)
Morten F. Paulsen
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2007 -2013
(NKI Distance Education)
Tapio Koskinen
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2006 – 2012
(Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli -TKK Dipoli, Finland)
Ene Koitla
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2015
(Estonian Information Technology Foundation, Estonia)
Costas Tsolakidis
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
(University of the Aegan, Rhodos, Greece)
Danguole Rutkauskiene
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2004-2010
(Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, 2004 – 2010)
Ulrich Bernath
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2003-2009
(Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Andrea Kárpáti
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2006 – 2012
(Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Alan Tait
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2002 – 2010
(The Open University, UK)
Gilly Salmon
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2012
(University of Leicester, UK)
Martine Vidal
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2005-2010
(Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France)
Carl Holmberg
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2000-2006
(Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden)
Albert Sangrá
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2003-2009
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Claudio Dondi
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2000-2006
(Research and Innovation for Learning Systems, Italy)
Sarolta Zárda
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1997-2003
(SZAMALK, Hungary)
Nikitas Kastis
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2001-2009
(Lambrakis Foundation, Greece)
Maria Jose Tavares
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1998-2004
(Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Jean Louis Decherat
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1999-2001
(Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France)
Jan Lojda
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1999-2005
(Technical University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Richard Lewis
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1998-2002
(Open University, UK)
Ionel Chera
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1996-1999
(CODECS, Romania)
Joannes van Heddegem
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1995-2002
(EuroPACE, Belgium)
Michel Moreau
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1993-1999
(Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France)
Sergei Schennikov
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1994-2000
(LINK, Russia)
Armando Rocha Trindade
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1992-1998
(Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Fred Nickolmann
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1992-1995
(SATURN, The Netherlands)
Sir John Daniel
Founder of EDEN
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1992-1998
(Open University)
Mette Ringsted
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1998-1999
(Danish National Centre for Technology-Supported Learning, Denmark)
Zophia Sokolewicz
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1993-1996
(Warsaw University, Poland)
Bernard Loing
Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 1993-1993
(Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France)
An interim Executive Committee with Erling Ljosa (President) John Daniel, Tadeusz Diem, Jan Koucky, Tamas Lajos (Vice-President), Fred Nickolmann, Armando Rocha Trindade (Vice-President) and Kees Veen was functioning between 1991-1992. The first elected Executive Committee was drawn up in 1992.
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