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Board of the EDCTP Association

Management
The EDCTP Board is entrusted with the management of the Association, supervises the Secretariat on behalf of the General Assembly, and is responsible for ensuring that the Association’s resources are properly and efficiently managed.

Members
Board members are selected from amongst the General Assembly representatives and their deputies and are appointed by the General Assembly with a tenure of two years, consecutively renewable once.

The Chairperson and up to two Vice-Chairpersons of the Board are appointed in function and also act as the Chairperson/Vice-Chairperson(s) of the General Assembly.

Transparency
As of 2017, the main documents reflecting the work of the Board are published in a public version. See below under Meetings.

Members
Meetings
Other

Members of the Board

Currently, the Board consists of the following members:

Yazdan Yazdanpanah (France), Chairperson
Christiane Druml (Austria), Vice-Chair
Jeffrey Mphahlele (South Africa), Vice-Chair
Andrea Spelberg (Germany), Member
Godfrey Biemba (Zambia), Member
Aboulaye Djimdé (Mali), Member

Representatives of the European Commission, the EDCTP Scientific Advisory Committee and the EDCTP High Representatives may attend Board meetings by invitation, as non-voting observers.