Current Executive Committee Members
Timothy Read, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems, UNED, Spain, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – present, President of EDEN 2022 – present
Don Olcott, Jr., President, HJ Associates, Romania, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2022, EDEN Vice-president 2022 – present
Elena Caldirola, Head of Innovation in Didactics and Digital Communication Unit, University of Pavia, Italy, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2018 – to present
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Vice-president, Co-Operative State University Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021 – to present
Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021 – to present
Past Executive Committee Members
Sandra Kucina Softic, Director Assistant for Education and User Support at University Computing Centre, Head of E-learning Office, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2013 – 2019, President of EDEN 2019 – 2022
Josep M. Duart, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2022
Diana Andone, Director of the eLearning Center at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2021
Mark Brown, Professor and Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2022
Rebecca Galley, The Open University, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2019 – 2021
Helga Dorner, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Eötvös Lóránd University, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2021
Denise Withelock, The Open University, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2021 – 2022
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Vice-President of the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE), Sweden, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2021
Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2019 – 2022
Vlad Mihaescu, CHAIR OF THE NAP STEERING COMMITTEE, EX OFFICIO MEMBER, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2020 – 2022
Airina Volungeviciene, Director of Innovative Studies Institute at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016, President of EDEN 2016 – 2019
Antonella Poce, Associate Professor, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2017 – 2020
Mark Nichols, The Open University, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2016 – 2018
Lisa Marie Blaschke, E-learning and Communications Consultant, Program Director at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2018
Wim Van Petegem, Director of AVNet at K.U. Leuven and Vice-Chairman & Treasurer of EuroPACE, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2009 – 2018
Fabio Nascimbeni, Assistant Professor of eLearning Innovation Universidad Internacional de la Rioja – UNIR, Spain, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2018
Belinda Tynan, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) and Vice President RMIT, The Open University, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2015 – 2016
Grainne Conole, University of Leicester, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2012 – 2015
Antonio M. Teixeira, Professor of Distance Education, Universidade Aberta, Portugal, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2008 – 2016
Deborah Arnold, Project Manager, Videoscop – Université Nancy 2, France, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
Ene Koitla, Head of the Estonian e-Learning Development Centre, Estonian Information Technology Foundation, Estonia, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2015
Costas Tsolakidis, Professor of University of the Aegan, Rhodos, Greece, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2016
Alan Bruce, Director of Universal Learning Systems, Ireland, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2009 – 2015
Morten F. Paulsen, NKI Distance Education, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2007 -2013
Andrea Kárpáti, Head of MULTIPED Centre for Multimedia and Educational Technology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2006 – 2012
Tapio Koskinen, Senior Advisor, Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli (TKK Dipoli), Finland, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2006 – 2012
Gilly Salmon, Professor of University of Leicester, UK, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2010 – 2012
Martine Vidal, Chargée de mission for research and development to the Rector, general director of CNED, and Chief Editor of the Journal “Distances et savoirs”, Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France, 2005 – 2010
Danguole Rutkauskiene, Head of the Regional Distance Education Study Centre, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, 2004 – 2010
Albert Sangrá, Director of UOC – EduLab, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, 2003 – 2009
Ulrich Bernath, Director, Centre for Distance Education, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, 2003 – 2009
Alan Tait, Dean, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK, Chair of the NAP Steering Committee, Member of the EDEN Executive Committee 2002 – 2010
Nikitas Kastis, Deputy Director General, Lambrakis Foundation, Greece, 2001 – 2009
Claudio Dondi, Director, SCIENTER – Research and Innovation for Learning Systems, Italy, 2000-2006
Carl Holmberg, Senior Adviser to Director-General, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden, 2000-2006
Jan Lojda, President of Czech Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Technical University in Brno, Czech Republic, 1999-2005
Maria Jose Tavares, Rector, Universidade Aberta, Portugal, 1998-2004
Sarolta Zárda, Director, SZAMALK, Hungary, 1997-2003
Joannes van Heddegem, Executive Director, EuroPACE, Belgium, Chair of the NAP Steering Committee, 1995-2002
Richard Lewis, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Open University, UK, 1998-2002
Jean Louis Decherat, Director of Institue of Poitiers-Futuroscope, Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France, 1999-2001
Sergei Schennikov, Director, LINK, Russia, 1994-2000
Michel Moreau, Rector, Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France, 1993-1999
Ionel Chera, Science Director, CODECS, Romania, 1996-1999
Mette Ringsted, Director, Danish National Centre for Technology-Supported Learning, Denmark, 1998-1999
Armando Rocha Trindade, Rector, Universidade Aberta, Portugal, Vice-President of ICDE, 1992-1998
Sir John Daniel, Vice-Chancellor, Open University, Founder of EDEN, 1992-1998
Zophia Sokolewicz, Professor, Warsaw University, Poland, 1993-1996
Fred Nickolmann, President, SATURN, The Netherlands, 1992-1995
Bernard Loing, Rector, Centre National D’Enseignment a Distance, France, 1993-1993
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.