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EUN Steering Committee elects new chairperson
Author: EUN News

Giovanni Biondi, Director of the Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica (formely INDIRE), was unanimously elected new chair of the EUN Steering Committee, taking over Odile de Chalendar from the French Ministry of Education. The election took place during EUN’s Steering Committee meeting on 5 December 2007. Giovanni Biondi was officially presented as the new EUN Chair during the closing session of EMINENT 2007 Conference in Brussels on 7 December 2007.

Other members of the presidium and Board of Directors were also elected at the meeting, the new Presidium include Giovanni Biondi, (IT-Chair), Jan de Craemer (BE-Vice Chair), Teresa Evaristo (PT-Vice Chair), Vanessa Pittard (UK-Vice Chair), Vaino Brazdikis (LT-Vice Chair), Jerome Morrissey (IE-Vice Chair). Additionally, Giovanni Biondi, Jan de Craemer and Teresa Evaristo were elected on the EUN Board of Directors.

The next meeting of the Steering Committee will take place on 7 February 2008.