Executive Board

The President chairs the EAES Executive Meetings and the meetings of the Annual General Assembly in addition to representing the association to the outside world. The Secretary General is responsible for the administration and the Treasurer for all financial matters. The Internal Auditor provides an internal control system. These Board members fulfill their duties continuously throughout their term of office.

EAES Executive Board 2025 – 2027

President

**Prof. Dr. Nicole Bouvy**
Leiden University Medical Center
Department of Surgery
Leiden, The Netherlands

President Elect

**Prof. Alberto Arezzo**
University of Turin
Department of Surgical Sciences
Turin, Italy

Immediate Past President

**Prof. George Hanna**
Imperial College
Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology
London, UK

General Secretary

**Prof. Luigi Boni**
Fondazione IRCCS – Ca’ Granda
Department of Surgery
Milan, Italy

Treasurer

**Prof. Rosa Jímenez-Rodríguez**
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio
General Surgery
Seville, Spain

Internal Auditor

**Prof. Cătălin Copăescu**
Ponderas Hospital
Minimal Invasive Bariatric & GI Surgery
Bucharest, Romania

Editor in Chief Surgical Endoscopy

**Prof. Jaap Bonjer**
Amsterdam UMC
Department of Surgery
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chair Education & Training committee

**Prof. Miloš Bjelovic**
Euromedik General Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Consultant UGI and Bariatric Surgeon
Director of General Surgery
Belgrade, Serbia

Chair Guidelines committee

**Dr. Stavros Antoniou**
Papageorgiou General Hospital
Department of Surgery
Thessaloniki, Greece

Chair Programme committee

**Yoav Mintz**
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Department of Surgery
Jerusalem – Israel

Chair Research committee

**Prof. Barbara Seeliger**
Specialist Surgeon and Senior Researcher
Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Strasbourg
Associate Professor, University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France

Chair Technology committee

**Prof. Hans Fuchs**
Professor of surgery
Leading surgeon, robotic surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Cologne
Köln, Germany

Congress President EAES2027

**Prof. Felix Nickel**
Professor of Surgery
Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Hamburg, Germany

Past Presidents:

Prof. George Hanna (2023-2025)
Prof. Salvador Morales Conde (2021-2023)
Prof. Andrea Pietrabissa (2019-2021)
Prof. Jaap Bonjer (2017-2019)
Prof. Eduardo Targarona (2015-2017)
Prof. Mario Morino (2013-2015)
Prof. Karl Fuchs (2011-2013)
Prof. Abe Fingerhut (2009-2011)
Prof. Antonio Lacy (2007-2009)
Prof. Gerhard Buess (2005-2007) †
Prof. Jack Jakimowicz (2003-2005)
Prof. Wolfgang Wayand (2001-2003)
Prof. Alberto Montori (1999-2001) †
Prof. Jean Mouiel (1997-1999)
Prof. Sir Alfred Cuschieri (1995-1997)
Prof. Hans Troidl (1993-1995) †
Prof. Jacques Périssat (1990-1993) †