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AER Executive Board

The Executive Board manages the coordination of all AER activities and charges the Secretary General to implement its decisions. Between assemblies, it is the highest authority of AER. The President of the Assembly of European Regions prepares the work and all the decisions of the Executive Board.

The President(s) of the AER Programmes are adjuncts of the Board on a strictly personal basis, reporting on the activities of their respective body.

By delegation, the Executive Board is authorised to meet and to make decisions in accordance with the association’s statutory objectives or useful to its smooth running. Decisions made in this way are submitted to the General Assembly.


Lukas Mandl
President

Region: Lower Austria (AT)
Seconded Officer: Jack Porter
Christian Debève
Vice President – Treasurer

Region: Grand Est (FR)
Seconded Officer: Sarah Bentz

Chair of the Focus Group on Ukraine
Agustí Fernández de Losada Passols
Vice President for Interregional and Global Cooperation
Region: Catalonia (ES)
Seconded Officer: Guillermo Velasco
Aida Karimli
Vice President for Democracy, Inclusion and Equality

Region: Västra Götaland (SE)

David Batsikadze
Vice President for Science and Culture

Region: Ajara (GE)
Seconded Officer: Lolita Dolidze
Gerry Murray
Vice President for Social Policy and Housing

Region: Mayo (IE)
Seconded Officer: Thomas Gilligan
Harold Zoet
Vice President for Agriculture and Rural Development

Region: Gelderland (NL)
Seconded Officer: Vivian Stribos
Johannes Sundelin
Vice President
for Clean Industry, Transportation, Transition, Sustainability and Health
Region: Norrbotten (SE)
Seconded Officer: Per Erik Andersson


Lilijana Madjar
Vice President for Cohesion and Public Services

Region: Western Slovenia
Seconded Officer: Nataša Rojšek

Linda Helén Haukland
Vice President for Education, Employment and Skills
Region: Nordland(NO)
Seconded Officer: Åshild Øpoyen
Mykola Lukashuk
Vice President for Ukraine Recovery, Partnerships and Cooperation

Region: Dnipropetrovsk (UA)
Seconded Officer:
Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko for Reconstruction of Ukraine
Vice President
Region: Kharkiv Kharkiv (UA)
Seconded Officer: to be appointed

Daniel Ruiz Trinidad
AER Eurodyssey President

Region: Valencia (ES)


AER Eurodyssey website

Name will be announced soon
AER Summer Academy President
Region:
Seconded Officer: 
 
Norbert Nagy
AER Youth Regional Network (YRN) President
Region: Sălaj (RO)
Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli
AER Honorary President

Region: Istanbul (TR)
AER President 2013-2017

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Magnus Berntsson
AER Honorary President

Region: Västra Götaland (SE)
AER President 2017-2023
Albert Castellanos
AER Honorary President
Region: Catalonia (ES)
AER President 2023-2025

 

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