Identification Committee 2024
The Identification Committee was entrusted with the task to identify candidates for membership to the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, establishing a reserve list to fill upcoming vacancies in the Group. This list was submitted to the Commissioner responsible for start-ups, research and innovation who appoints the candidates.
Independent Identification Committee members 2024
- Janusz Bujnicki
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
- Pearl Dykstra
Professor emerita of empirical sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Former Director-General of CERN, Geneva
Identification Committee 2020
The Identification Committee has advised the European Commission on the selection of candidate advisors following the call for nominations that closed on 15 of June 2020.
Committee members 2020
- Rianne Letschert
Rector Magnificus Maastricht University, member of the Executive Board. Professor International Law and Victimology Maastricht Law School, since 2016
- Janez Potočnik
Co-Chair of UNEP International Resource Panel, Former European Commissioner for Science and Research followed by Environment, and Partner SYSTEMIQ
- Henrik C. Wegener
Rector, University of Copenhagen, since 2017
Previous Identification Committees
Identification Committees advised the European Commission on the selection of candidate advisors following the calls for nominations in July 2015 and November 2017.
- Terms of Reference
- Statement of Methodology
- Activity report (28 February 2018)
- Activity report (17 October 2015)
Committee members 2015 and 2018
Biographies correct at the time of membership.
- Rianne Letschert
Director and professor of victimology and international law at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg, The Netherlands (INTERVICT)
- Sir David King
UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007. Appointed as the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change in September 2013
- António Vitorino
President of the Jacques Delors Institute and a lawyer by profession since 1982, he has been an associate at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira & Associados, Portugal, since 2005