Executive Support Group
Executive Support Group
To meet the demands of continuity and transparency in its procedures, the Governing Board has appointed an Executive Support Group (ESG), consisting of experienced senior level officials from participating research councils. Membership is ad personam and not automatically linked to the members of the Governing Board. The Executive Secretary, as well as a representative from each Annual Meeting host sit on the ESG ex officio. The ESG is co-chaired by a selected member and the Executive Secretary.
The Executive Secretary is appointed by the Governing Board for a term of three years and may serve consecutive terms.
The ESG, including the Executive Secretary, supports the Governing Board, the hosts of the Annual as well as the Regional Meetings and all GRC participants in all organisational matters concerning the GRC. In addition, it provides strategic advice and drafts concepts, statements and procedural papers as requested by the Governing Board.
Current ESG members are:
| Americas | |
| Shaun Baron (Co-Chair) | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada |
| Ashley Vanderley/Stacey Standridge | National Science Foundation (NSF) United States |
| Asia-Pacific | |
| Osamu Kobayashi | Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Japan |
| Vissanu Meeyoo (ex officio) | Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) Thailand |
| Europe | |
| Lidia Borrell-Damián | Science Europe Europe |
| Marcus Wilms | German Research Foundation (DFG) Germany |
| Laure Ognois | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Switzerland |
| Michael Bright (Executive Secretary) | UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) United Kingdom |
| MENA | |
| Ahmad Al-Abdulkader | King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Saudi Arabia |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Dorothy Ngila | National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa |
| Neema Tindamanyire | Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) Tanzania |