
Featured Members
Founding Members

Jacques Defourny
1st EMES president
Centre d'Economie Sociale, University of Liège, Belgium

Lars Hulgård
2nd EMES president
Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark

Marthe Nyssens
3rd EMES president and current vice-president
Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Carlo Borzaga
EMES Honorary member
ISSAN, University of Trento, Italy

Adalbert Evers
EMES Honorary member
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Jean Louis Laville
EMES Honorary member
CRIDA, Paris, France

Mary O'Shaughnessy
EMES Board Member
Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork, Ireland

Pekka Pättiniemi
EMES Honorary member
KSL Civic Association for Adult Learning, Finland

Heloísa Perista
EMES Honorary member
CESIS, Lisbon, Portugal

Victor Pestoff
EMES Honorary member
Mid-Sweden University, Sweden

Roger Spear
EMES Honorary member
Co-ops Research Unit, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Yohanan Stryan
EMES honorary member
Södertörns Högskola, Huddinge, Sweden

Isabel Vidal
EMES Honorary member
CIES, Barcelona, Spain
Board members

Taco Brandsen
4th EMES President
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Nicole Göler von Ravensburg
EMES Board Member
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Francesca Petrella
EMES Board Member
Aix-Marseille University, France

Linda Lundgaard Andersen
EMES Board Member
Roskilde University, Denmark

Philippe Eynaud
EMES Board Member
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon - Sorbonne, France

Sílvia Ferreira
EMES Board Member
University of Coimbra, Portugal

Luiz Inácio Gaiger
EMES Board Member
UNISINOS, Brazil

Giulia Galera
EMES Board Member
European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse), Italy

Simone Poledrini
EMES Board Member
University of Genoa, Italy

Ellen Bennett
EMES Board Member
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
PhD Network Representatives

Michael Roy
Former PhD representative
Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Francesca Calo
Former PhD representative
The Open University, UK

Coline Serres
Former PhD representative
Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Eduardo Pereira
Former PhD representative
Lille Catholic University, France

Sergio Páramo
Former PhD representative
Maastricht University, Netherlands

Kerryn Krige
Current PhD representative
The Marshall Institute, UK
We believe in the power of connecting established research institutions and individual researchers around the world to advance the SE fields. EMES seeks to intercommunicate each other’s interests, publications and related information while exchanging opportunities for joint publications and research initiatives.