Structure

HOUSING EUROPE is administered by a board of directors, known as the Board, comprising of the President and eight members. Neither the President nor the Board members represent their own country or their organisation. The length of its members’ mandate is three years; it is renewable. A third of the Board members is renewed every year.

HOUSING EUROPE is organised in five (5) thematic committees open to all member organisations. The President is elected by the General Assembly on merit for three years to represent all the members, this mandate is not renewable.

Board of Directors

Bent Madsen - President
CEO of BL, Danish Social Housing
Denmark

Christian Lieberknecht - Vice-President
Managing Director of GdW
Germany

Daniel Biard - Vice-President
(Currently replaced by Pierre-François Gouiffès, Chairman of the Board at Entreprise Sociale pour L’habitat)
France

Gert Eyckmans
Director of VVH, Vereniging van Vlaamse Huisvestingsmaatschappijen
Belgium, region of Flanders

Andres Jaadla
Chairman of EKYL, The Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associations
Estonia

Marco Corradi
President of ACER Reggio Emilia
Italy

José María Escolástico Sánchez
President of the Spanish Social Housing Association (AVS)
Spain

Marten Lilja
Vice-Chairman of Rijkbyggen
Sweden

Martin van Rijn
Chairman of AEDES
The Netherlands

Working Committees