Board of Directors (BoD)
The current BoD consists of 7 voting members:
- Pavel Žufan, Director, President
- Serhat Akpinar, Director
- Teresa Shafer, Director, Vice-President
- Maja Fošner, Director, Secretary
- Vacancy, Director
- Tom Foy, Director, representative of students
- Vacancy, Director, representative of industry
Director of Accreditation and Director of Finance and Administration are ex-officio non-voting members of the Board.
You can contact any voting BoD member by sending an email to
Read more about the tasks of the BoD
The BoD wields the broadest authority in the administration, management, and representation of the Agency. The responsibilities of the BoD include, inter alia to:
- Define the long-term strategy of the Agency in line with the recommendations of the AGM;
- Prepare and supervise a yearly work plan, to be discussed and approved by the AGM;
- Prepare, implement and supervise all activities as defined in the work plan;
- Develop and fulfil of the Agency’s quality system;
- Ratify the Accreditation Procedures, as proposed by the Director of Accreditation;
- Ensure that any specific mandate determined by the AGM is carried out;
- Decide on the admission of new Members or the exclusion of Members (the latter to be confirmed by the AGM);
- Make recommendations to the AGM on any modification of the Statutes;
- Decide on any strategic alliance; these decisions should be confirmed by the next AGM;
- Convoke a special AGM when needed;
- Elect a President, Vice-president, Treasurer and Secretary;
- Oversee the financial arrangements of the Agency and provide for the auditing of the accounts;
- To hire, set loans and dismiss agents, employees and administrative staff and take all other measures as necessary for implementation of the daily management of the Agency;
- Take any action deemed necessary in the interests of the Agency;
- Appoint and dismiss the members of the BoC, the DoA, the Reviewers and Senior Reviewers. The process of appointment, including the procedure to propose candidates and their evaluation, is described in the Bye-Laws of the Agency;
- Ratify the election by the Commissioners of the CoC;
- Ratify the election by the Senior Reviewers of the CoR;
- Define terms of appointment and remuneration.
Following Article 5.2.2. of the Bye-Laws, the BoD decided to delegate all actions regarding operations management and all tasks regarding strategy preparation to the Executive Committee.
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