The European Electrotechnical Committee for Standardization is one of three European Standardization Organizations (together with CEN and ETSI) that have been officially recognized by the European Union and by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as being responsible for developing and defining voluntary standards at European level.
Riccardo Lama is an experienced executive in the electricity business. Graduated with honours in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, he has been working in the electrical energy sector for the last 35 years, performing managerial roles within Enel Group both in Europe and in Latin America. Over the course of his career, Mr Lama has also gained strong experience in the fields of network planning and development, components’ standardization, work methodologies, management services and organization, health, safety and environment, quality systems and processes. He has been serving as President General of CEI, the Italian Electrotechnical Committee, since 2019. Furthermore, he has been part of the Technical Committee of CIRED (International Conference on Electricity Distribution) since 2009. In June 2023, Mr Lama was elected as the next President of CENELEC (2025-2027). His mandate as President started in January 2025.
Mr Jos Remy has been active in international standardization for over 25 years. After studying electronic engineering in Belgium, Mr Remy started his career in 1987 in the high-end television factory and development centre of Philips Bruges, Belgium. He then moved to the development organization in 1993 to work as a product safety and compliance engineer. In 1998, he became the team leader of a group responsible for product safety, product quality, and conformity assessment. At the beginning of 2004, he joined the Philips IP&S group, where he took up his current position as Global leader of regulatory standards, specialized in the fields of product safety and conformity assessment. Since 2015, he has been managing a group of standardization experts in several fields, including product safety, EMC, EMF and environmental standardization. He has had several roles in the IEC, such as TC chair, project leader, and WG secretariat.
On the CENELEC level, Mr Remy is also active in several roles within technical committees, and he has been participating and leading CENELEC BT WGs. He was selected as CENELEC Vice-President Technical for a 2-year mandate, from January 2025.
Mrs Ewa Zielińska has a Master’s degree in Sociology from Warsaw University and a Postgraduate degree on European Affairs from the same university. She has served at Vice-President in charge of external relations and sales at PKN, the Polish Committee for Standardization since 2019. Before that, she built her career in the organisation’s External Relations Department, where she started working in 2000: she was appointed as Head of Unit responsible for foreign issues in the External Relations Department from 2010 to 2012, and since 2012 she was the department’s Director. In doing this, she also acquired extensive experience in European and International standardization, serving in different positions in IEC and CENELEC’s Boards and technical bodies. Mrs Ewa Zielińska was elected CENELEC’s Vice-President Policy for a two-year mandate starting in January 2022. She has been re-elected for a second two-year mandate (2024-2025).
Mr Karl-Heinz Mayer is Director Innovation, Codes and Standards & Program Management in Eaton’s Industries EMEA Power Distribution Division (PDD) and member of the extended Management Board. In this position since 2009, he has been actively involved in national, European and international electrotechnical standardization. He also manages the standardization team of PDD which contributes to various national and international technical standardization committees. Over the course of his career, Mr Mayer has built a strong experience in the management of Research & Development, Innovation, Program Management, Quality and Standardization teams starting at Felten & Guilleaume AG, continuing at Moeller Gebäudeautomation GmbH and followed then by Eaton Industries (Austria) GmbH. He is board member of the private foundation ESF. Mr Mayer holds a degree in industrial engineering and is certified as manager for quality. He has been CENELEC’s Board Member from 2021 to 2022. He was elected as CENELEC Vice-President Finance for a two-year mandate starting in June 2022. He has been re-elected for a second two-year mandate (2024-2025).
Mrs Nathalie Baumier has been the Chief Executive Standardization Director at RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Electricité), the French Electricity Transmission System Operator since 2014.
She has been involved in standardization all her career long at the national, European (CENELEC) and international level (IEC), first in technical positions, then in governance positions. At present, she manages the standardization activities of all the experts of RTE and is deeply involved in the activities of the High-Level Forum on European Standardization (HLF), as well as the French National Committee, CEF, operated by AFNOR.
Over the course of her career, Mrs Baumier has gained strong experience in the management of engineering, technical, commercial and innovation teams first at EDF, ERD (now ENEDIS) and then at RTE. Mrs Baumier holds a degree from the Telecom Sud Paris high school.
Ms Annette Frederiksen is half-German, half-Danish, and grew up in Belgium. She studied mechatronics at the Technical University Dresden and obtained a PhD in optics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She is an engineer with over 15 years of experience in research and development at Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany, working in various fields like sensors, displays, autonomous driving, batteries, and e-bikes.
At present, Ms Frederiksen holds the position of standardization manager at Bosch eBike Systems. In 2017, she was chosen as the IEC Young Professional Leader, and for the past 5 years, she has been the voluntary head of Next Generation DKE, the German national Young Professionals Program, and a full Member of the Council of DKE. In this role, she developed new teaching and education strategies for standardization and was involved in strategic standardization activities.
Since 2016, Ms Frederiksen has been active in national, European and international standardization activities in various roles, including secretary, assistant secretary, convenor, and project leader for both IEC and CENELEC TCs in the field of optical radiation safety and batteries. In 2023, she received the CENELEC Technical Body Officer Award. She was elected to CENELEC’s Board for a 2-year mandate, starting in January 2025.
Mr Jens Heiede is the CEO of Danish Standards (DS). Before his employment with Danish Standards, he worked for approximately 20 years at leading Nordic insurance companies. During this time, he had four key areas of responsibility, including in leadership and management, as sales director, as marketing manager, and as finance manager. Over the past ten years, Mr Heiede has achieved a significant transformation of Danish Standards with focus on financial sustainability, digitization, and growth in the use of international and European standards in Denmark. First as Director of Standardization and now as CEO, he is engaged in all aspects of standardization, ranging from technical work, setting the strategy for Danish Standards’ engagement in ISO, IEC, CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, and participating in all relevant governing bodies.
Mr Heiede holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA from the Copenhagen Business School, as well as a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Leadership from the Technical University of Denmark. He was elected to the CENELEC CA for a 2-year term, from 2025 to 2027.
Mr Pambos Kammas holds a BBA in Management from Cyprus College, in Nicosia, and an MBA in Marketing from the University of New Haven in the USA. Mr Kammas has been the Director of Standardization for the Cyprus Organisation for Standardization (CYS) since 2006. In this position, he has represented CYS in the CEN and CENELEC General Assembly since 2007. He is also the Director of CYS Vocational Training Center. Before this, from 2004 to 2006 Mr Kammas was Director for Certification at the Cyprus Certification Company, where he started working after more than a decade at OEB, the "Cyprus Employers' and Industrialists' Federation".
At the European level, he has covered a series of roles: among others, Mr Kammas was an elected member of CEN's Administrative Council (CA) for 2 consequent 2-year terms(2014-2017), and Chair of CEN's Certification Board from 2015 to 2017 and member of CENELEC's CA on 2011-12. Furthermore, he was a member of the CENELEC Technical Board (BT) from 2006 and 2008 and of CEN BT from 2007 to 2014. He has been elected CENELEC Board Member for a two-year mandate starting in 2024.
Mr Enda McDonnell is Head of Standards at NSAI, the National Standards Authority of Ireland, taking on this role from January 2016. From 2012 to 2015, Enda helped to build up the Standardization Services arm of QCC, the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council - a powerful force in helping Abu Dhabi achieve its Economic Vision by underpinning the local Quality Infrastructure. Prior to 2000, Enda was involved in standardization as a technical expert, chairman of a national mirror committee, secretary of a national trade association and delegate in an international working group. This was mainly on the Electro-Technical side, as he previously worked in the electrical cable manufacturing industry. He has two Masters Degrees (MBA – Masters in Business Administration and MIE – Masters in Industrial Engineering) and a primary Engineering degree. Enda McDonnell is a Fellow of Engineers Ireland. He was a Board Member of CEN from 2018 to 2020 and has now been elected as CENELEC Board Member since January 2022.
Óscar Querol is the Technical Manager at the Spanish Electrical Equipment Installation Manufacturers Association, AFME, since 2007, and the Secretary General of CECAPI, the European Electrical Equipment Installation Manufacturers Association, since 2016. Mr Querol is an expert advisor in standardization, conformity assessment, legislation and market surveillance for the electrotechnical sector. He is a member of the UNE Managing Directors Board since 2007 and, since 2018, he also serves as the President of the UNE Electrotechnical Commission. Furthermore, he is serving a second mandate (2021-2023) in the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB) representing UNE. Throughout his career, Mr Querol has been involved in standardization activities since 2000, when he joined AFME and acted as secretary of many sectorial Technical Committees (TCs) at national level (UNE) and participated as Spanish representative and expert in the mirroring CENELEC and IEC TCs. An electrical engineer by training, Mr Querol also obtained a Program for Managing Director by IESE Business University of Navarra. Mr Querol has been serving as a CENELEC’s Board Member since January 2023.
Mr Anders Richert is Technical Director and deputy General Director at the Swedish National Electrical Safety Board (Elsäkerhetsverket). He is also vice chairman of the board in SEK Svensk Elstandard. After graduating from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Mr Richert held numerous positions in Vattenfall. In the early 1990s, he was seconded to Unipede (EURELECTRIC) in Paris, dealing with electricity supply and standardization issues on a European level in cooperation with CENELEC. His career then took him to the Middle East working with transmission projects. Mr Richert was a Board Member of SEK Svensk Elstandard, representing the electricity industry, before joining the Safety Board and is now a member of the SEK Electrotechnical Committee and TK8. Mr Richert has been serving as CENELEC Board Member since January 2022.
Mrs Anna Tanskanen has been the Managing Director of SESKO, Finland’s National Electrotechnical Committee, since January 2021. Before that, she made a career in the electricity and electrotechnical private sector for Eltel Networks Corporation (2004-2010), Fortum Distribution Ltd (2010-2014) and Caruna Ltd (2014-2020), first as business development manager and then as Automation Manager. In this position, she also participated in standardization work at the national and international level, as a participant to the IEC’s Young Professionals-programme and as a member of SESKO SK 8 committee. Mrs Tanskanen holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, where she obtained also her Master’s degree. Mrs Tanskanen was elected as a CENELEC Board Member since January 2022.
George Cutajar has been involved in standardization work for over 20 years. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree with honours in Mathematics and Physics and a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Malta, he worked as the scientific advisor for the development of European and national standards at the Malta Standards Authority. Between 2011 and 2016, he headed the Laboratory Services Directorate at the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA) and oversaw the quality and technical management of accredited management systems. He then became head of the Standardization Directorate, overlooking the making, adopting and publishing of standards. Mr Cutajar was also in charge of managing and directing EU Ecolabel certification and EMAS (eco-management and audit scheme) verification services. In 2023, he became Director General of the Maltese Standards and Metrology Institute. He was nominated to the CENELEC Board for a two-year mandate (2025-26).