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ESCP Annual General Meeting

ESCP’s next Annual General Meeting will take place in Prague, Czech Republic.

Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
Time: 12:15 – 13:15 local time
Venue: Prague Congress Centre ǀ Room: Plenary & Parallel 1 (Congress Hall)

Agenda

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1

President’s Welcome & Report

Miguel Pera

2

Minutes of the AGM on Wednesday 10 September 2025 

Voting required to ratify minutes

Carolynne Vaizey

3

Secretary’s Report

  • ESCP Rules for Adoption - Voting required to adopt the ESCP Rules 
  • ESCP Strategy
  • AI Working Group
  • Affiliate Societies
  • Honorary Member & ESCP Awards
  • Prague Registration update
  • Membership update
Carolynne Vaizey and Miguel Pera

4

Committee and Working Group reports

View all reports here >

5

Appointment of Officers

Executive changes for AGM ratification:

  • President: Ayhan Kuzu
  • President Elect: Frédéric Ris
  • President in Waiting: Carolynne Vaizey
  • Past President: Miguel Pera
  • Secretary: Zoe Garoufalia
  • Treasurer: Yasuko Maeda
  • European School of Coloproctology Chair: Patricia Tejedor
  • Guidelines Committee Chair: Christos Kontovounisios
  • Ass. Global Reach Committee Chair: Thomas Pinkney
  • Y-ESCP Chair: Jan Colpaert
  • Ass. Journal Rep: Nicolas Avellaneda

Executive officers demitting office:

  • Past President: Antonino Spinelli
  • Secretary: Carolynne Vaizey
  • Treasurer: Hagit Tulchinksy
  • Guidelines Committee Chair: Triantafyllos Doulias
  • Y-ESCP Chair: Zoe Garoufalia

Council officers:

  • Regional Representatives* (outgoing > incoming):
    • Albert Wolthuis (Belgium) > Gabriele Bislenghi (Belgium) | Western
    • Giuseppe Sica (Italy) > Balázs Bánky (Hungary) | Central
  • National Representatives (outgoing > incoming):
    • Laura Koskenvuo > Susanna Niemelainen | Finland (Eastern)
    • Niki Christou > Charles Sabbagh | France (Western)
    • Ingo Alldinger > Robert Siegel | Germany (Central)
    • Christina Fleming > Michael Kelly | Ireland (Western)
    • Liene Melberga > Linda Kokaine | Latvia (Eastern)
    • Paulius Zeromskas > Henrikas Paužas | Lithuania (Eastern)
    • Nuno Rama > Pedro Renato Sousa da Silva Vaz | Portugal (Eastern)
    • Stefan Kmezic > Marko Miladinov | Serbia (Eastern)
    • Sezai Leventoglu > Cihangir Akyol | Turkey (Eastern)

*Tomas Poskus will stay in post for another 12 months as Regional Representative for the Eastern Region; no two members from the same region demitting in any one year.

New Committee and Working Group Members

The following members are to be ratified at the AGM as representatives and members as follows.

UEG representatives:

  • Meeting of Members: Janindra Warusavitarne
  • Quality of Care Taskforce: Christos Kontovounisios
  • Education Committee: Emma Carrington
  • Research Committee: Stéphanie Breukink

Committees:

  • Communications: Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Barbara Noiret (Y-ESCP Representative)
  • Education: Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Yasuko Maeda (ex-officio/ESCP Treasurer), Rosa Jiménez-Rodríguez (ex-officio/REWG Chair), Patricia Tejedor (Chair, European School of Coloproctology), Jim Khan, Emma Carrington (UEG Scientific Representative)
  • Global Reach: Thomas Pinkney (Ass. EU Co-Chair), Nicolas Avellaeda (Non-EU Co-Chair), Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Rosa Jiménez-Rodríguez (ex-officio/Chair: Membership Committee)
  • Guidelines: Blanca Montcusi (Y-ESCP Representative), Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Maximos Frountzas, Christina Perlepe, Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Thomas Bjorsum-Meyer, Carlo Alberto Manzo, Mehmet Ali Koc, Muhammed Elhadi, Flavia Alexandre
  • Programme: Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Jared Torkington, Seraina Faes (National Representative: Switzerland)
  • Research: Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Tommaso Violante (Y-ESCP Representative)
  • Y-ESCP: Cédric Shraepen, Kamil Erozkan, Nuria Ortega, Beatriz Silva Mendes, Barbara Noiret, Blanca Montcusi, Tomasso Violante

Working groups:

  • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
    • Chair: Kapil Sahnan
    • Advisory members: Christos Kontovounisios, Miguel Pera
    • Steering members: Volkan Dogru; Javier Castellano, Muhammad Fahad UllahYaniv Zager, Alp Omer Canturk
  • Cohort Studies & Audits
    • Chair: Ionut Negoi
    • Deputy Chair: Audrius Dulskas
    • Steering group: Elizabeth Li, Gabrielle van Ramshorst, Gianluca Pellino, James Glasbey, Muhammed ElHadi
    • Ordinary members: Ana Minaya Bravo; Beatriz Silva Mendes (Y-ESCP Representative), Dragomir Dardanov, Francesco Pata, Shaji Sebastian, Sharfuddin Chowdhury, Caterina Foppa, Jeremy Meyer
    • Advisory group: Thomas Pinkney (ex-officio), Dion Morton (ex-officio), Baljit Singh, Sue Blackwell, Laura Magill
    • By Invitation: Pamela Buchwald; Gaetano Gallo
  • DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity)
    • Chair: Franco Marinello
    • Members: Sreelakshmi Mallappa, Peter C. Ambe, Bruno Scotto, Semra Demirli
  • Humanitarian
    • Chair: Aybala Yildiz
    • Steering committee: Pedro Botelho, Frédéric Ris, Antonino Spinelli, Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada, Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary)
  • Regional Events
    • Chair: Rosa Jiménez-Rodríguez
    • Members: Zoe Garoufalia (ex-officio/ESCP Secretary), Mehmet Ayhan Kuzu (President), Michel Adamina (Chair: Education Committee)
  • Social Media
    • Co-Chair: Audrius Dulskas
    • Members: Alp Omer Canturk, Barbara Noiret (Y-ESCP Representative), Burak Yavuz, Nadab David Mitre Reyes

Voting required to ratify the new Executive, Council & Committee Members

Miguel Pera

6

Treasurer's Report

Yasuko Maeda

7

Trustee’s Report

Re-election of Trustees continuing in office

  • Chair: Mike Parker (UK) West
  • Sebastiano Biondo (Spain) West
  • Adam Dziki (Poland) East
  • Eloy Espin Basany Spain) West
  • Anna Martling (Sweden) Central
  • Giovanni Romano (Italy) Central
  • Thomas Schiedeck (Germany) Central
  • Tom Scheinin (Finland) East
  • Evangelos Xynos (Greece) East

Voting required to re-elect the Trustees

Election of ESCP’s Auditors

  • Whitelaw Wells

Voting required to ratify to re-appoint the Auditors

Mike Parker

8

Inauguration of new President: Mehmet Ayhan Kuzu

Miguel Pera

9

Date of the next AGM

The next AGM will be held on Wednesday 22 September 2027 in Geneva, Switzerland

Carolynne Vaizey

10

Close of meeting

 

Past Annual General Meetings

Download PDFs of AGM minutes and committee reports here: