Council meetingsThe European XFEL Council is the supreme organ of the company in which up to two delegates represent the shareholders of each contracting party. It meets at least twice a year. The Council functions as the shareholders’ assembly and decides on important issues of company policy.
Each delegation to the Council can be accompanied by up to two advisors. The Council may decide to hear experts, invite guests and admit observers. It is led by a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who are elected from among the delegates for a period of two years and who become supra partes after their election.
Meanwhile, shareholders from six partner countries have joined the company and sent delegates to the Council. Others will follow soon.
Members
Chairman
- Robert K. Feidenhans'l (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Delegates
- Denmark: Anders Ødegaard (DASTI, Copenhagen)
- Germany: Helmut Dosch (DESY, Hamburg) and
Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph (BMBF, Bonn) - Russia: Mikhail Kovalchuk (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow) and
Andrey Svinarenko (RUSNANO, Moscow) - Slovakia: Pavol Sovák (P. J. Šafárik University, Kosice)
- Sweden: Lars Börjesson (Vetenskapsrådet - Swedish Research Council, Stockholm)
- Switzerland: Bruno Moor (State Secretariat for Education and Research, Bern)
Secretary to the Council
- Stephanie Suhr (European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany)