Election of ACE president
Peter Davis decided to leave CC September 1 2011, and the steering committee of ACE initiated a process to elect a new ACE president. According to practice a new president should be elected among the agency representatives in the steering committee. Thibaud Verge and Miguel de la Mano accepted to be candidates. The steering committee casted votes with the deadline August 22.
Miguel de la Mano was elected as the new ACE president, starting September 1 2011.
Miguel de la Mano has been the deputy chief economist at CET in DG Competition, and he will from October 1 be the acting chief economist at the Competition Commission in the United Kingdom.
Election of new members to the steering committee 2011-2014
The Steering Committee is the strategic governing board of ACE. It is made up of representatives from Academia, Government and Business.
Four of the members of the steering committee, one academic and three from competition agencies, stepped down at the end of 2010.
Members of ACE casted in January 2011 votes for new members, and the new members 2011-2014 of the steering committee are the following:
Academic:
Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Amsterdam Business School, Netherlands
Competition agencies:
Gergely Csorba, Hungary
Miguel de la Mano, EU
Thibaud Verge, France