About Us
Leadership
Leadership
EAI is led by recognized experts from governments, research, industry and academia.
Imrich Chlamtac
Founder & President
EAI President
Prof. Imrich Chlamtac
European Alliance for Innovation
Prof. Chlamtac is the President of EAI, European Alliance for Innovation. He pioneered EAI as a global initiative for promoting growth of ICT-based economy and digital society.
Officers*
Wim Bartholomeus
Vice President
Rabot Law firm, Belgium
Miklos Boda
Secretary General
Avi Legman
Treasurer
General Consulting
Advisory Board*
Steve Wright
Chair
Head of Strategic Research at BT
Tarcisio Andreolli
Member
Italian Senetor, Former President of the Autonomous Region of Trentino – Alto Adige
Jacques Attali
Member
Chairman & CEO, Attali & Associés, Professor, writer, Honorary Member of the Council of State, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, founder and first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London from 1991 to 1993
Franco Bernabè
Member
CEO of Telecom Italia
Tim Cook
Member
Director at ISIS Innovation, Board Member TT Venture and Innovation Professor at Southampton University, St Catherines College Oxford, retired in 2017
Maurizio Dècina
Member
Electronics engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Politecnico di Milano
João da Silva
Member
Former Director, DG INFSO.D “Converged Networks and Services” European Commission, EC Directorate General for the Information Society
Thorbjorn Jagland
Member
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Terttu Luukkonen
Member
Head of Unit at the Research Institute of Finnish Economy
Nick Mckeown
Member
Professor of CS and EE in Stanford University
Chemi Peres
Member
Founder and Managing General Partner of Pitango
Ahmed Qurie (Abu Ala)
Member
Former Prime Minister of Palestine, died on February 22, 2023
Javier Solana
Member
Former EU High Representative and NATO Secretary General, President of Centre for Global Economics and Geopolitics ESADE
Staffan Truvé
Member
CEO of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS); Co-founder of CR&T (Carlstedt Research and Technology), Chief Scientist at Recorded Future
Charles Wessner
Member
Director of Technology, Innovation, & Entrpreneurship at National Academy of Sciences
Steering Board*
Afonso Ferreira
Chair of the Strategic Forum
Board Member, CNRS – Toulouse Institute of Computer Science, Seasoned practitioner of EU Institutions
Tiziana Catarci
Institutional members representative
Vice-Rector for ICT and Infrastructures at the University of Roma “La Sapienza”
Eliezer Dekel
Corporate members representative
Chief Architect, Huawei ERC, died on February 18, 2020
Anilkumar Dave
SME members representative
R&D Projects and Technology Transfer Unit Coordinator, Space Economy and Open Innovation advisor, EU external expert evaluator
Erwin Grosspiescth
Affiliated members representative
Chairman of the Board of Directors of EUROMICRO
Gabriel Silberman
International Cooperation representative
Director General, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
EAI Innovation Academy Board of Trustees*
Virgilio Almeida
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
Fabrizio Gagliardi
Senior Strategy Advisor, Institutional – European Relations, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Malik Ghallab
Directeur de recherche LAAS-CNRS and University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research
Santiago Grisolía
Executive President of the “Rey Jaime I” Prizes and Secretary of the Fundación Valenciana de Estudios Avanzados, Died on August 4, 2022
Ward Hanson
Policy Forum Director and Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Bálint Magyar
EIT Governing Board and Minister of Education, Former Minister of Human Capacities of Hungary
Henry Markram
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Hagit Messer-Yaron
Tel Aviv University, Former president of the Open University of Israel
Pablo Rudomin
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Mexico
Roberto Saracco
President and Node Director of European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) Italy, died in December 2023
Oliviero Stock
FBK-IRST Senior Fellow
Mateo Valero
Director of the Spanish National Centre of Supercomputing
Wolfgang Wahlster
Former Director and CEO of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
Advisory board*
Dr. Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University
Prof. Eric Kandel
2000 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte
Co-founder and former director of the MIT Media Lab and founder of the One Laptop per Child
Dr. Maria Klawe
Board Director of Microsoft Corp. and President of Harvey Mudd College
Prof. Christopher S. Eisgruber
20th President of Princeton University
Prof. Henry Rosovsky
Former professor of Economics, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and former Acting President of Harvard, died on November 11, 2022
Dr. David Fischer
Vice President of Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook
Dr. André Azoulay
Senior advisor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco
Prof. Bernard Henri Levy
Influential intellectual, philosopher and journalist
*Positions at the time of appointment
