ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

07 September 2022

Meet our new Executive Committee members!

In June this year, ECOS members got together at the Annual General Assembly and elected three new members to our Executive Committee. Get to know the new faces providing strategic direction to the Secretariat!

With the ending of the terms of former ECOS President Greg Archer (T&E) as well as committee members Patrick ten Brink (EEB) and Meletis Fouskaris (individual member), three seats of the ECOS Executive Committee were open for election at our 2022 General Assembly.

We are happy to announce that the following new members have been elected unanimously by our members:
Carlos Calvo Ambel, Transport & Environment (T&E)
Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, The European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
Esra Tat, Zero Waste Europe, EU

We asked each of them what they hope to bring to the Committee and gain from the experience.


With the remaining committee members continuing their terms, the new Executive Committee now consists of the following members:

  • President: Emilie Carmichael, Energy Saving Trust, UK
  • Vice President: Marion Hasper, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)/German environmental NGOs coordination network for standardisation (KNU), Germany
  • Treasurer: Gianmarco Santirocco, Individual capacity
  • Robert Brett, Individual capacity
  • Carlos Calvo Ambel, Transport & Environment (T&E), EU
  • Julika Dittrich, Individual capacity
  • Francisco Ferreira, ZERO, Portugal
  • Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), EU
  • Esra Tat, Zero Waste Europe, EU

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