GÉANT is delighted to announce Charlie van Genuchten’s election as the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) Chair. Charlie, Senior Product Manager for Security at the Dutch NREN SURF, was elected to lead the GCC for the next three years during the GÉANT General Assembly which was held in Amsterdam on 20 November 2024.
Charlie takes over the GCC Chair role from Claudio Allocchio of GARR, who served in this position from March 2020 until now. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Claudio for his commitment to the GCC over this extended term.
“I am truly excited to be the new chair of this Committee. I love our community, which I have been part of for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to dive deeper into collaborating as a community within our Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Task Forces (TF), and the GÉANT Project.
I want to drive the committee to highlight not only successes, but challenges too, to discuss with the board in order to create a space for innovation and positive change. The Innovation Programme is a great example of a motor which will keep up the momentum and encourage new ideas. I’m grateful to be taking on this new opportunity, and I can’t wait to see what we can achieve as a community.”
About Charlie van Genuchten
Charlie studied History and Arabic and was part of the Dutch National Union of Students and the European Student Union during her studies. At SURF she is responsible for developing security services, such as the national OZON cyber crisis exercise in which 2000 people collaborate every two years. Besides this, she is laying the foundations on operational, tactical and strategic levels for an overarching crisis management procedure for the Dutch R&E sector. Since 2015, Charlie has been part of the NREN community, getting actively involved in 2017, when she created CLAW, the yearly NREN crisis management event. In 2017 and 2018, she was coordinator for SIG-NOC, TF-RED and helped to start Task Force Data Protection Regulation (TF-DPR). Since 2019, she has been Task Lead in the Security Work package of the GÉANT project, overseeing subtasks on the human factor of security, such as awareness, crisis management, training and mentorship programmes. She has served on the TNC Programme Committee from 2021 to 2024.
About the GÉANT Community Committee
The GCC has oversight of the GÉANT Community Programme and operates under the auspices of the General Assembly via an agreed terms of reference. The GCC is closely associated with the GN5-1 Project Task on Task Force and Special Interest Groups Coordination.
