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