• Preparing for and convening the Meeting of Members and compilation of the agenda
• Passing resolutions on the acceptance of members
• Representing the Society's interests in public, towards national and international authorities
• Deciding upon the time and place of the European Congress of Virology
• Advice of funding agencies and political institutions of the European Union

President
Otto A. Haller, Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

E-Mail: haller.office@uniklinik-freiburg.de

First Vice-President
Giorgio Palù
President S.I.V. (Italian Society of Virology), Microbiology Department, Medical School, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

E-Mail: giorgio.palu@unipd.it

Second Vice-President
Ben Berkhout, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA)
Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

E-Mail: b.berkhout@amc.uva.nl

Treasurer
Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume, Section of Microbiology and Virology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

E-Mail: gabriella.campadelli@unibo.it

Secretary General
Bernhard Fleckenstein, Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

E-Mail: fleckenstein@viro.med.uni-erlangen.de

Otto Haller

Giorgio Palu

Ben Berkhout

Gabriella Campadelli

Bernhard Fleckenstein

The Advisory Council consists of the chairmen of the committees and a further 12 regular members of the Society. The members of the Advisory Council participate in meetings of the Executive Board in an advisory capacity.

Elected Cash Auditors:

Monika Engels, Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Janos Minarovits, Microbiological Research Group, National Centre Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary

Their duty of the Committees is to support and advise the Executive Board.

Elected Chairperson of the Award Committee:

Robin Weiss, Infection and Immunity, University College London, Great Britain

E-Mail: r.weiss@ucl.ac.uk

Elected Chairperson of the Meeting Committee:

Noël Tordo , Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France

E-Mail: noel.tordo@pasteur.fr