General Assembly
The ECOO General Assembly is a meeting of national delegations of the members of ECOO. The General Assembly is the highest decision making body of the association. It meets twice a year, in spring and in autumn.
The Executive Committee
The strategic leadership and decision-making body is the Executive committee, which is elected by the General Assembly and led by the President.
President
Gabriëlle Janssen (The Netherlands)
Immediate Past-President
Dr Matjaž Mihelčič (Slovenia)
President Elect
Dr Sylwia Kropacz-Sobkowiak (Poland)
Treasurer
Peter Gumpelmayer (Germany)
Chair of the Professional Services Committee
Ignacio J. Costa González (Spain)
Chair of the Public Affairs and Economic Committee
Per Michael Larsen (Denmark)
Chair of the European Qualifications Board
Professor Julie-Anne Little (UK)
Secretary of the Public Affairs and Economic Committee
Elaine Grisdale (Austria)
Secretary of the Professional Services Committee
Pavel Šebek (Czech Republic)
Thematic Committees
The Executive Committee is supported by two elected thematic Committees:
Public Affairs and Economic
Economic and commercial matters as well as with specific legislative and non-legislative EU dossiers.
- Per Michael Larsen (Denmark) – Chair
- Tina Alvær (Norway)
- Luca Benzoni (Italy)
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Kai Jaeger (Germany)
- Daryl Newsome (UK)
- Raúl Alberto Ribeiro Correia de Sousa (Portugal)
- Zsolt Szabadi (Hungary)
- Elaine Grisdale (UK) – Secretary
Professional Services
Development of the profession in terms of the scope of practice of optometry and optics in the member countries.
- Ignacio José Costas Gonzalez (Spain) – Chair
- Konrad Abramczuk (Poland)
- Kerstien Gabarretta (Malta)
- Stephan Hirschfeld (Germany)
- Julie-Anne Little (UK)
- Martin O’Brien (Ireland)
- Iwan Zanchetta (Switzerland)
- Pavel Šebek (Czech Republic) – Secretary
European Qualifications Board
With the activities of the ECOO Accreditation Agency the European Qualifications Board has been set-up and is responsible for the European Diploma in Optometry and the European Qualification in Optics including their performance, content and recognition.
Read biographies of members of the EQB.
SECRETARY
Fabienne Eckert
- Professor Julie-Anne Little – Chair
- Dr Bente Monica Aakre*
- Fiona Anderson*
- Dr. Stephan Bandlitz
- Dr Roger Crelier*
- Ignacio José Costa González
- Dr Vincent Gautier
- Peter Gumpelmayer
- Dr José Manuel González Meijome *
- Dr Sigrid Müller-Schotte *
- Gustav Pöltner*
*Member of Expert Group
Constitutional documents
ECOO is governed by its statutes and Rules of Procedure:
- ECOO Statutes (PDF)
- ECOO Rules of Procedure (PDF)