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.