The democratic body of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) is the Assembly of Delegates. Every four years new Individual Delegates are elected, and new Institutional Delegates are nominated. This assembly meets once a year, in person, on the Saturday during the EAN Congress. Newly elected and nominated delegates will start their term on 27 June 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland.
This year the EAN Full Institutional Members in good standing had the opportunity to nominate their delegates for the new term 2026-2029. Each Full Institutional Member is entitled to nominate one Institutional Delegate to the assembly.
Below you will find the list of the Institutional Delegates nominated for the term 2026 – 2029:
Mira Kapisyzi-Rakacolli, Albania
Hasmik Vekilyan, Armenia
Walter Struhal, Austria
Aytan Mammadbayli, Azerbaijan
Miguel D’haeseleer, Belgium
Ivan Milanov, Bulgaria
Ivan Peric, Croatia
Eleni Leonidou, Cyprus
Milan Brazdil, Czech Republic
Michael Oettinger, Denmark
Katrin Sikk, Estonia
Mika Martikainen, Finland
Celine Louapre, France
Roman R. Shakarishvili, Georgia
Sven G. Meuth, Germany
Georgios Tsivgoulis, Greece
László Csiba, Hungary
Olafur Sveinsson, Iceland
Sean O’Dowd, Ireland
Joab Chapman, Israel
Alessandro Padovani, Italy
Ruslan Belyayev, Kazakhstan
Evija Miglane, Latvia
Ruta Mameniskiene, Lithuania
Pierre Kolber, Luxembourg
Marija Cauchi, Malta
Pavel Leahu, Moldova
Mladen Debeljević, Montenegro
Emilija Cvetkovska, North Macedonia
Heidi Øyen Flemmen, Norway
Alina Kulakowska, Poland
Sónia Batista, Portugal
Cristina Tiu, Romania
Aleksandar Ristic, Serbia
Peter Valkovic, Slovakia
Maja Kojovic, Slovenia
Elena Cortés-Vicente, Spain
Igal Rosenstein, Sweden
Caroline Pot, Switzerland
Erwin L.J. Hoogervorst, The Netherlands
Hacer Durmuş Tekçe, Turkey
Vladyslav M. Mishchenko, Ukraine
Neil Robertson, United Kingdom
Yakutkhon Madjidova, Uzbekistan
Full Individual Members, in turn, elect a number of delegates equal to the number nominated by the Full Institutional Members. In addition, there are up to twenty Delegate Substitutes elected, who may temporarily or permanently replace delegates who are not available. These are the Individual Delegates and their substitutes elected for the term 2026-2029:
Individual Delegates (in alphabetical order)
Federica Agosta, Italy
Messoud Ashina, Denmark
Thomas Berger, Austria
Sylvia Boesch, Austria
Laura Bonanni, Italy
Jean Marc Burgunder, Switzerland
Marianne de Visser, The Netherlands
Yildiz Degirmenci, Türkiye
Stefan Evers, Germany
Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Romania
Alessandra Fanciulli, Austria
Saša R. Filipović, Serbia
Urs Fischer, Switzerland
Giovanni Frisoni, Switzerland
Claudio Gasperini, Italy
Zuzana Gdovinova, Slovakia
Max Josef Hilz, Germany
Simona Lattanzi, Italy
Maurizio Leone, Italy
Rocco Liguori, Italy
Michelangelo Mancuso, Italy
Tony Marson, United Kingdom
Luca Massacesi, Italy
Stefano Meletti, Italy
Ron Milo, Israel
Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas, Greece
Maria Judit Molnar, Hungary
Celia Oreja-Guevara, Spain
Justyna Paprocka, Poland
Maura Pugliatti, Italy
Martin Rakusa, Slovenia
Katrin Rauen, Germany
Guido Rubboli, Denmark
Stephan Rüegg, Switzerland
Benedikt Schoser, Germany
Johann Sellner, Austria
Gabriele Siciliano, Italy
Ioannis Stavropoulos, United Kingdom
Ambra Stefani, Austria
Antonio Toscano, Italy (current Board member)
Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Norway
Nens van Alfen, The Netherlands
Tim J von Oertzen, Germany
Kristl Vonck, Belgium
Vladimira Vuletic, Croatia
Barbara Willekens, Belgium
Delegates Substitutes (in order of election)
Peter Dedeken, Belgium
Raimund Helbok, Austria
Alexander Tarnutzer, Switzerland
Svetlana Tomic, Croatia
Anna Luisa Di Stefano, Italy
Giulia Fiume, Italy
Konrad Rejdak, Poland
Katarina Rukavina, Germany
Natalia Szejko, Poland
Khachik Petrosyan, Armenia
Oxana Grosu Moldova
Jaroslaw Dulski, Poland
Katarzyna Smilowska, Poland
Anita Arsovska, North Macedonia
Dmytro Mankovskyi, Ukraine
Piergiorgio Lochner, Germany
Sanja Gluscevic, Montenegro
Oksana Kopchak, Ukraine
Victoria Svystilnyk, Ukraine
The new Assembly of Delegates will meet for the first time in Geneva on 27 June 2026.
Among the full individual delegates, Italy leads with fourteen representatives. This reflects the EAN full individual membership, with Italy accounting for 14% of all active members.
According to the EAN Bylaws, the Assembly of Delegates is responsible for the following tasks:
- Election of members of the Board of the EAN
- Amendments to the bylaws of the EAN
- Approval of the annual accounts of the EAN
- Endorsement of decisions made by the Board of the EAN presented to the Assembly of Delegates by the EAN Board
- Change of the seat of the EAN and its official mailing address (Headoffice)
- Dissolution of the EAN
We are looking forward to meeting you at the 12th EAN Congress on 27-30 June 2026.
