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. Francesco Emma
ESPN President
STELLA STABOULI
ESPN Assistant President
Aristotle University Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
Year of appointment: 2025
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
Malgorzata Mizerska-Wasiak
Council Member
Department of Pediatrics and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw
Poland
Year of appointment: 2023
Conflict of interest
Lars Pape
Council Member
