At the November GÉANT General Assembly (GA) meeting, our members voted for two open GÉANT Board Member positions. The open positions are a result of two Board Members – Lars Fischer and János Mohácsi each reaching the end of their first term.
Lars Fischer – NORDUnet (re-elected for a 3-year term)
Lars works with Nordic and European partnerships as well as with key research community stakeholders at NORDUnet, with a focus on long-term strategic evolution. Lars is a long-standing member of the GÉANT GA and NREN PC, and has served the GÉANT community in many ways, including the GN3plus Executive Committee, the GN3 Proposal Review Board, special interest groups and taskforces, as chair of the TNC program committee, and as member of the GPPC for more than ten years. Before joining NORDUnet in 2004, Lars spent ten years in the Internet and telecommunications industry as Technical Director at Tele2 Denmark and COLT Telecom. Lars has served on the GÉANT Board of Directors since November 2021.
János Mohácsi – KIFÜ (re-elected for a 3-year term)
Janos has been involved in numerous national and international projects related to advanced network development in high-speed networking, IPv6, Trust and Identity, and Open Science. Between 2008-2012, as head of the HBONE+ program developments (2008-2012) he managed the building of the CEF-based new 100Gbps hybrid backbone in Hungary, HPC facility and federated T&I infrastructure. Later in the Sulinet+ program (2013-2016) he drove the renewal of the Hungarian School Network (5000+ sites) getting 100Mbps-1Gbps to every school, and rollout of new services including eduroam, eduID and multimedia services. He was a member of the GPPC from 2015-2021 and later a member of the GÉANT Community Committee (since 2019). Janos is also the Hungarian infrastructure member of the e-IRG group. He is an active member of several advisory groups of NRDIO (the Hungarian Research Funding Organisation), an e-infrastructure member of the Hungarian Research Infrastructure Committee, and a member of the Open Science Advisory Group. Janos has served on the GÉANT Board of Directors since November 2021 and as chairman of the Cost Sharing and Service Portfolio Advisory Committee since June 2024.
GÉANT Board of Directors
With no other changes, the Board Members are:
Gilles Massen (Chair of the Board)
Claudio Allocchio
Ronan Byrne
Lars Fischer
Heidi Fraser-Krauss
Floor Jas
George Konnis
Cezary Mazurek
János Mohácsi
The GA is GÉANT’s highest governing body, in which representatives of its member organisations meet at least three times a year and is also responsible for electing members to the GÉANT Board of Directors.
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