eGov

Programme Committee

Some of the most renowned European experts in e-governance, e-government, e-democracy and e-services are members of the Webit eGov Summit Programme Committee.

Please find their names alphabetically listed below:

  • Mr. Alexander Xenakis,International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University (UK)
  • Mr. Aavo Kaine, Head of the National ICT R&D program, FP7 ICT Committee Delegate for Estonia
  • Dr.Ales Dobnikar, Director-General of the e-Government and Administrative Processes Directorate at the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia
  • Mr. Alfredo Ronchi, General Secretary of the European Commission-MEDICI Framework, Secretary of the European Working Group on “EU Directives and Cultural Heritage” and head of the representative of OCCAM NGO at UNO International Centre in Vienna. 
  • Dr. Andras Gabor, Department of Information Systems, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
  • Mr. Angelo Marcotulli, Directorate for Innovation and Research in ICT Regional Government of Tuscany
  • Mr. Antanas Mitasiunas 
  • Mr. Antoni Bosch-Pujol, Institute of Audit and IT-Governance
  • Mr. Asaf Varol, Firat University, Member of Executive Board of Turkish Informatics Association
  • Mr. Athanasios Kountzeris, Information Sociery Observatory - Greece
  • Mr. Baudouin De Sonis, Executive Director of e-Forum association
  • Mr. Bernhard Krabina, Researcher, consultant and trainer for eGovernment, public management and knowledge management, Centre for Public Administration Research
  • Prof. Dr. Bernhard R. Katzy, University BW Munchen, Germany - Founder of CeTIM GmbH, Center for Technology and Innovation Management 
  • Mr. Boaz Dolev, E-gov Department Director at Israel Ministry of Finance
  • Mr.Bojil Dobrev, Director of Research Department, Sofia  University
  • Prof. Borislav Josanov, Higher Business School for Professional Studies, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Mr.Carlos E. Jimenez, Information Systems Service, Department of Justice. Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain
  • Prof.Charles Schweik, Associate Professor, NRC and Center for Public Policy and Administration;Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government;Co-Director and founder, UMass Amherst Open Source Laboratory 
  • Mrs.Dana Petcu, SPRERS coordinator, Romanian expert for FP7-ICTC, Prof & Head of Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Mr. David Broster, Head of Information Society Unit, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission
  • Mr. David O’Donnell, Researcher in intellectual capital, governance, e-democracy, Irish Parliament
  • Prof. Dragan Cisic, Vice Dean for Research and Technology
  • Mr. Edzus Zeiris, ZZ Dats Ltd.
  • Mrs. Eleni Panopoulou, ICT Researcher, eParticipation and eGovernment projects, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Dr. Erhard Busek, Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe
  • Mrs.  Evika Karamagioli, Deputy Director of Gov2u 
  • Mr. Frederic Lievens, Med-e-Tel, Belgium
  • Mr. Geert Mareels, Director of the Coordinatiecel Vlaams E-government (CORVE), Belgium
  • Mr. Georgios Kapogiannis, The University of Salford
  • Mr. Giancarlo De Stefano, Consip SpA,  Senior Manager of Strategic Projects Area
  • Prof. Dr.Hans-Dieter Zimmermann ,  Institute for Information and Process Managemet IPM, FHS St. Gallen, University for Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Mr. Herbert Leitold, Manager of Secure Information Technology Center – Austria (A-SIT), E-Government Innovation Center
  • Prof.  Ibrahim Kushcu, Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
  • Mr.Ioan Cordos, Outsourcing projects -Director, SC UTI Systems SA; former State secretary for Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Romania
  • Mrs. Irina Zalisova, Director and co-founder of EPMA/BMI
  • Mr. Isreal Weisman, CEO, Vitalog Inc.
  • Dr. Ivan Kostov, Director, Sheinovo Hospital, Chair of e-Health Foundation
  • Mr. Jan Franke, Policy Officer, Knowledge Society, Eurocities
  • Mr. Jean-Pierre Euzen, Head of Sector, Living Labs, New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities, Information Society and Media Directorate-General European Commission 
  • Mr. Jos Leijten, Joint Institute for Innovation Policy, Brussels
  • Mr. Joze Gricar, eCenter Director, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
  • Mr.Kai Rannenberg, T-Mobile Chair for Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  • Mr. Mauro Cislaghi, Project Automation S.p.A., Coordinator of EU funded projects in e-government
  • Prof. Merce Rovira Regas, Ajuntament & Universitat de Girona, Spain; eGovernment coordinator
  • Dr. Michael Kaschesky, Swiss Center for Public Management and E-Government of Berne University
  • Mr. Odisseas Raptis 
  • Mrs. Orieta Hulea, Head of WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme, Bucharest Office
  • Mr. Dr. Panayiotis Ketikidis, Chairman, South-East European Research Centre
  • Mr. Peter Blair, Partner in Public Sector Strategies, UK
  • Mr. Pieter Ballon
  • Mr. Plamen Russev, Chairperson e-Academy
  • Mr. R.Erdem Erkul, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Hacettepe University in Turkey,  Editor of www.digital-government.net
  • Dr.A.Ramazan Altinok, Chief e-government Advisor and Project Cordinator, Prime Ministry, Turkey
  • Mr. Reinhard Posch, Chief Information Officer des Bundes, Austria
  • Prof. Roumen Nikolov, Chair of the Bulgarian Telework Association
  • Mr. Rudi Vansnick, President of the Belgian Internet Society
  • Mr. Schahram Dustdar, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology
  • Mr. Sebastien Levy, Partner Items International
  • Dr. Seija Kulkki, Centre for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics
  • Mr. Serdar Yumlu, Sampas, Turkey
  • Mr. Sotiris Koussouris, National Technical University of Athens
  • Prof. Stoyan Denchev, Rector, SVUBIT, Sofia, member of ALADIN Network
  • Dr. Stuart Shulman, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Mr. Tiago Peixoto, e-democracy Researcher, European University Institute
  • Mr. Tommi Nordberg, Executive Vice President, Gemalto, Government Programs
  • Prof. Turksel Kaya, Director of TODAIE eGovernment Center
  • Prof. Valentin Kisimov, Vice-Rector, Uniwersity of National and World Economy, Sofia
  • Mr. Vasilis Koulolias, Executive Director, Gov2U
  • Prof.Vedran Batos,Vice-Rector for International Relations and Business, University of Dubrovnik
  • Mr. Yannis Stamatiou, ICT Security and eGovernment,Research Academic Computer Technology Institute


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