Governance
Who we are: the EWEA Board of Directors
As a non-profit association, EWEA is governed by a Board of Directors elected by the members at the AGM. Each Board position has a two-year term. As of 24 February 2016 there are 24 Board members. The Board of Directors elects the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Board. The Chairperson is the CEO or similar function of a Leading Member of the Association and serves an 18-month term, renewable only after a minimum one term break.
Board of Directors
The Board meets six times a year and is made up of representatives of each membership category.
- 1 representative of each Leading Member
- 4 representatives of C categories
- 3 representatives of A1 category
The Board members are appointed for a two-year period.
Chairman: Markus Tacke, CEO, Siemens Wind Power and Renewables
Vice-chairman: Jose López-Tafall Bascuñana, Acciona
Leading Member category – one seat per Leading Member
- Acciona, Jose López-Tafall Bascuñana
- DONG Energy Wind Power, Ulrik Stridbaek
- EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF-EN), Nicolas Couderc
- EDP Renewables, Casillas Jorge
- Enel Green Power, Felice Egidi
- E.ON Climate & Renewables, Michael Lewis
- ERG Renew, Francesco Gazzoletti
- ENERCON, Katrin Düning
- GE Wind, Cliff Harris
- Iberdrola Renovables Energia, Juan Rivier
- MHI Vestas Offshore Wind
- Nordex, Tony Adam
- RES - Renewable Energy Systems Ltd, Jean-Marc Armitano
- Sentient Science, Ward Thomas
- Siemens Wind Power and Renewables, Monika Wood
- Vattenfall Vindkraft AB, Tomas Björnsson
- Vestas Wind Systems, Morten Dyrholm
C category – four seats
- ABB, Alfredo Parres
- Technical University of Denmark, DTU Wind Energy, Peter Hjuler Jensen
- Gamesa Eolica, Juan Diego Díaz Vega
- Senvion, Norbert Giese
A1 category – three seats
- Asociación Empresarial Eólica - AEE, Luis Polo
- BWE - German Wind Energy Association - Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V.Henning Dettmer
- Danish Wind Industry Association - DWIA, Jan Hylleberg
EWEA Statutes
Find out more about how the Association operates in EWEA's Statutes.
Who's who in the Governance photo (November 2014)
First row – left to right:
Jorge Casillas, EDPR – Angeles Santamaria, IBERDROLA – Sandra Gommel, E.ON Climate & Renewables – Katrin Düning, ENERCON – Cecilia Hellner, Vattenfall – Oliver Lönker, Siemens Wind Power and Renewables – José Lopez Tafall, ACCIONA – Morten Dyrholm, Vestas
Second row – left to right:
Peter Hjuler Jensen Technical University of Denmark, DTU Wind Energy – Felice Egidi, Enel Green Power – Jan Hylleberg, Danish Wind Industry Association – Ulrik Stridbaek, DONG Energy Wind Power – Andreas Renner, EnBW Erneuerbare Energien GmbH – Juan Diego Díaz Vega, Gamesa Eolica – Nicolas Couderc, EDF EN
Third row – left to right:
Thomas Becker, EWEA – Hannu Väänänen, ABB – Markus Tacke, CEO, Siemens Wind Power and Renewables – Martin Berkenkamp, GE Wind – Heikki Willstedt, Asociación Empresarial Eólica – AEE, Thibault Desclée de Maredsous, Alstom - Henning Dettmer, BWE – German Wind Energy Association - Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V. – Francesco Gazzoletti, ERG Renew
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