ECDC Management Board Chair and Deputy Chair re-elected
On 25 November 2020, the ECDC Management Board re-elected Dr Anni Virolainen Julkunen as Chair and Ms Zofija Mazej Kukovič as Deputy Chair.
Dr Anni Virolainen Julkunen, Management Board member representing Finland, was re-elected as Chair of the ECDC Management Board at the Board’s meeting on 25 November 2020. Ms Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Management Board member representing the European Parliament, was re-elected as Deputy Chair. The re-elected Chair and Deputy Chair will serve for another two year-term.
Dr Virolainen-Julkunen, MD, PhD, Specialist in Clinical Microbiology, is employed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland and serves there as Ministerial Counsellor. She has been ECDC’s Management Board member from Finland since 2011, and has previously served as Deputy Chair of the Board. Ms Mazej Kukovič is member of the ECDC Management Board since 2016, and has previously served as Minister of Health of Slovenia and as Member of the European Parliament. She is currently an elected Board Member of the Management Committee of the European Parliament Former Members Association.
