The Board of the European Business Association is overall responsible for the Association’s activities and strategy and supervision the EBA executive staff. The EBA Board meets once a month to approve acceptation of new EBA members and decide on other issues related to the EBA activity.

The elections to the EBA Board and to the position of the EBA are guided by the Charter of the European Business Association and by the Internal Rules and Procedures of the Association. The elections are held every year at the EBA Annual General Meeting of the EBA members.

Only full members of the EBA can be elected to the Board and to the position of the President of the EBA. Every Full EBA Member may nominate one candidate to the Board. Members of the Board are elected for a two-year period.

There can not be more than three Board members from one industry and more than three representatives of one nationality.

President and Vice Presidents are elected by the Board from duly elected Board Members. The EBA Vice President Volodymyr Lavrenchuk for 2007-2008 was elected by the EBA Board at its meeting on 19.03.2007. The President Trond Moe was elected at a Board meeting on 23 June 2008, Andrea Raffaseder of Siemens Ukraine was Moe’s predecessor holding the post till 23 June 2008. The Board is scheduled to hold another regular meeting in July to elect the EBA Vice President.

President Trond Moe Telenor	Vice President Volodymyr Lavrenchuk Raiffeisen Bank Aval	Beate Schober ABEA Ltd	Yevhen Treskunov Aerosvit
Bjorn Markstedt Avis Ukraine	Stephane Batoux Danone Ukraine	Karl Gessner Deloitte	Luis-Manuel Portero-Sanchez EC Delegation
Tom Cradock-Watson Ernst & Young	Stephen Ansell Hyatt Regency Kiev	Hans Grisel ING Bank Ukraine JSC	Garrett Coogan Kievrianta
Bruno Le Cicle Nestle Ukraine	Marek Luczak TOV Syngenta	Dmytro Shynkarchuk Ukraine International Airlines	Robert Reed Willard

On behalf of the EBA membership we would like to thank all EBA Board members for their voluntary commitment and contribution in developing the Association, its strategy and supporting the EBA office in its current activities.