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Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is ECNP’s executive organ. It is charged with setting the organisation’s strategic agenda, planning its activities, representing it publicly and managing its funds and assets, subject to the final oversight of the General Assembly.

Officers

President Martien Kas

University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Vice-president Elisabeth Binder

Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Munich, Germany
Past-president Gitte Moos Knudsen

Copenhagen University Hospital
Denmark
President-Elect Andreas Reif

University Hospital Frankfurt
Germany
Treasurer Brenda Penninx

Amsterdam University Medical Center
The Netherlands
Secretary Suzanne Dickson

University of Gothenburg
Sweden

Councillors

David Baldwin

University of Southampton
United Kingdom
Paolo Brambilla

University of Milan
Italy
Iria Grande

Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
Spain
Iiris Hovatta

University of Helsinki
Finland
Marin Jukic

University of Belgrade
Serbia
Marion Leboyer

University of Paris Est Créteil
France

Advisers

Co-opt member Gerry Dawson

P1vital
Wallingford, United Kingdom
Chair, Scientific Programme Committee Barbara Franke

(38th, 39th, 40th ECNP Congress)
Radboud University Nijmegen 
The Netherlands
Editor-in-Chief, Neuroscience Applied Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

University of Heidelberg
Germany
Editor-in-Chief, European Neuropsychopharmacology Eduard Vieta

University of Barcelona
Spain
Executive Director Alexander Schubert

The Netherlands
Financial Adviser to the Executive Committee Paul Boerboom

Belgium

Composition

The Executive Committee consists of twelve voting members: six officers – the president, vice-president, president-elect, past-president, secretary and treasurer – and six councillors. In addition, selected advisers and ex-officio members participate to represent special areas of expertise. Voting members sit for three-year terms, and can be re-elected a maximum of four times.

Time commitment

The Executive Committee meets four times a year. Seven voting members constitute a quorum.