Body

The Executive Bureau (EB) comprises the President, 2 Vice Presidents, 4 elected representatives from the FC, the Treasurer and the Secretary-General. The EB meets 4 to 6 times a year and is responsible for the overall management of the organisation. The EB members each hold specific (1) organisational, (2) geographic and (3) thematic/political responsibilities which you can find below. They are always happy to answer to your questions so please feel free to contact them on [firstname].[lastname]@jef.eu !

Mandate holders

Pauline Gessant, President

Emilia Machuca, Vice-President

Martin Fischer, Vice-President

Sarantis Michalopoulos, EB member

Carlo Maria Palermo, EB member

Radoslava Serakova, EB member

Andrea Tittelova, EB member

Jakob Pedersen, Treasurer

Ruben Loodts, Secretary-General

Ruben started working as Secretary-General in the European Secretariat of JEF-Europe since September 2010. Before his start as SG, Ruben has been active on the local and national level of JEF, having established a flourishing local section in Leuven and contributed as International Officer to relaunching JEF-Belgium. He considers himself as truly European, and tries to contribute to the process of European integration by being a real JEFer.

As Secretary-General, Ruben would love to work on increasing the outreach of the organisation, since he is convinded that the limit of JEF lays much further than the current thirty thousand members JEF reaches out to. Many more youngsters are European federalists by heart, but just do not realise it, yet. JEF should get those youngsters on board!

The Secretary-General’s responsibilities include:

1. Organisational management: ensuring good working relations with the sections and guaranteeing the close coordination of JEF activities and statutory meetings.
2. Project management: coordinating the preparation of events and projects (receiving applications, keeping track of participation fee payments, circulating documents, etc.).
3. Communication management: internal mailings, the maintenance of databases (JEF INFO, press contacts, etc.), assisting the EB in updating the “Who is Who” list with detailed contact details of all key mandate holders and disbursing info on JEF’s online social networks in collaboration with EB and WG5 – FOA.
4. Website management: the regular updating of the website.
5. Financial management: supervising the accounting and bookkeeping process and assisting the Treasurer in guaranteeing the financial sustainability of the organisation, by keeping the budget in balance and by actively searching and applying for funding.
6. Human resources management: the coordination of the Secretariat staff and organisation of the recruitment process together with the EB.
7. External representation and advocacy/lobbying together with the EB.

Note of explanation about the three different levels of tasks:

Organisational responsibilities entail:

• Strengthening the organisational development of JEF Europe via specific portfolios.
• Coordination of the preparation of the international seminars together with the organising section and the Secretariat.
• Preparation of, assistance to and follow-up on the work of the PCs and/or WGs assigned and participation in the PC’s and WG’s sessions during the FC meeting.

Geographical responsibilities entail:

• Ensuring regular contacts with sections, among others, by exchanging detailed contact details.
• Encouraging sections to take part in different activities and contribute to JEF Europe’s work.
• Visiting the sections or taking part in their statutory meetings or activities, if possible.

Political/Thematic responsibilities entail:

• Monitoring the policy areas assigned, writing articles on them and preparing press releases together with the Press responsible.
• Being the contact person for JEFers who have information on these policy areas or wish to discuss certain issues