Members and chairpersons
ESRIF Members
ESRIF members represent four stakeholder groups:
- The security technology / solution demand side
- Authorities and end users in charge of civil security from the 27 EU Member States as well as from the countries associated with the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7);
- The security technology / solution supply side
- Representatives of industry, research establishments and academia with a particular security profile;
- Civil society representatives
- Think-tanks, civil liberty organisations and other relevant experts;
- The European representatives
- Observers from the European Parliament (EP) from relevant EP committees;
- European agencies and comparable organisations in the security and / or security research domain: EUROPOL, FRONTEX and EDA;
- the European Commission , in particular its Directorates General concerned with security and/or security research issues.
All members were nominated in spring/summer 2007 either by the EU Member States and FP7 Associated Countries (stakeholder groups 1, 2 and 3) or by the European organisations listed under stakeholder group 4.
It was agreed among them that ESRIF should have between 50 and 70 members in total. (view list of members)
ESRIF Chairmen
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Mr Dragutin Mate (Slovenia) was elected chairman by ESRIF members at the 6th plenary meeting (on 18 November 2008) in replacement of Mr Gijs de Vries, who left to join the Netherlands Court of Audit. |
He is supported by two deputy chairmen: Mr Jürgen Stock (Germany, Bundeskriminalamt) and Mr Giancarlo Grasso (Italy, Finmeccanica).
Contributors to the ESRIF work groups
To bring together all required expertise and to ensure a balanced profile, the eleven working groups of ESRIF have been open to involve additional contributors beyond the formal members of ESRIF.
Over 600 experts from all over Europe have contributed to the work.
