Europlanet Executive Board

The Executive Board is the governing body of the Europlanet Society and Europlanet AISBL. As such, the Executive Board members are responsible for directing and controlling the affairs and property of Europlanet, including EPSC.

The Executive Board consists of the five officers of the Society (the President, two Vice-Presidents, the Secretary and the Treasurer) and six other members which are elected for a period of four years. The five officers serve as the directors of the AISBL.

The next elections for Executive Board positions will be for President-Elect and Incoming Treasurer *(2026).

* The post of Treasurer (elected 2021) has been extended by the Board for a period of up to 2 years to allow for a transition period, with an Incoming Treasurer to be elected in 2026.

The membership of the current Executive Board is as follows:

Past Board Members

  • Federica Duras – Board Member (2023-2025)
  • Leigh Fletcher – Board Member (2019-2025)
  • Melissa Mirino – Board Member (2023-2025)
  • Angelo Pio Rossi – Vice President (2019-2024)
  • Nigel Mason – President (2019-2023)
  • Maria Cristina di Sanctis – Board Member (2019-2023)
  • Ricardo Hueso – Board Member (2019-2023)
  • Lora Jovanovic – Board Member (2019-2023)
  • Ewa Szuszkiewicz – Board Member (2019-2023)
  • Nancy Hine – Treasurer (2020-2021)

Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149.
Europlanet AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif – 0800.634.634) is hosted by the Department of Planetary Atmospheres of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Avenue Circulaire 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium.