The ESPN Council comprises the President, the Assistant President, the Treasurer and 8 ordinary councillors, who between them are responsible for the various Council portfolios as listed below.
Ordinary councillors serve a 3-year, non-renewable term. Vacancies are announced via ESPN member communications. Candidates must have the written support of two ESPN members. ESPN members vote to select their preferred candidates according to the number of vacancies. In the interests of broad representation on Council, where there is more than one candidate from the same country, only the top-ranked candidate can be appointed to Council.

Prof. Dieter Haffner
ESPN President

Prof. Francesco Emma
ESPN Assistant President

Prof. Jun Oh
ESPN Treasurer

Rute Baeta Baptista
Ex-officio member
Hospital Dona Estefânia (HDE), Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central (CHULC)
Lisbon, Portugal
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest

Karolis Azukaitis
Council Member
Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine
Vilnius, Lithuania
Year of appointment: 2022
Conflict of interest

Ayşe Balat
Council Member
Gaziantep University, Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Nephrology
Gaziantep, Turkiye
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest

Umut Selda Bayrakci
Council Member

Arend Bökenkamp
Council Member
Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Center
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest

Leire Madariaga
Council Member

Matko Marlais
Council Member
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest

Lars Pape
Council Member

Malgorzata Mizerska-Wasiak
Council Member
Department of Pediatrics and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw
Poland
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest