Ambassadors (National Contact Points)
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Albania | Edlira Martiri | University of Tirana |
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Armenia | ||
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Austria | Andreas Uhl | University of Salzburg |
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Azerbijan | ||
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Belarus | ||
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Belgium | Els Kindt | K.U. Leuven |
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Bosnia Herzegovina | ||
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Bulgaria | ||
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Croatia | Miroslav Bača | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics |
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Cyprus | Andreas Lanitis | Cyprus University of Technology |
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Czech Republic | Martin Drahanský | TU Brno |
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Denmark | Jakob Glynstrup | Danish National ID Centre (NIDC) |
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Estonia | Deivis Treier | University of Tartu |
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Finland | Kristian Honkanen | Gemalto |
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France | Sébastién Brangoulo | MORPHO (Safran Group) |
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Georgia | ||
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Germany | Christoph Busch | TTT Biometrics Working Group |
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Greece | Dimitrios Tzovaras | Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) |
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Hungary | Csaba Benedek | Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) |
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Iceland | Þorvarður Kári Ólafsson | Þjóðskrá Íslands |
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Ireland | Michael Peirce | Daon |
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Italy | Alessandro Alessandoni | Digit PA |
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Kazakhstan | ||
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Kosovo | ||
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Latvia | Dmitrijs Abalenkovs | |
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Lithuania | Antonello Mincone | Neurotechnology |
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Luxembourg | Andreas Braun | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Macedonia | ||
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Malta | Reuben Farrugia | University of Malta |
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Moldova | ||
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Montenegro | ||
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Netherlands | Michiel van der Veen | Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations |
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Norway | Magnar Aukrust | Norwegian Biometrics Forum |
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Poland | Adrian Kapczynski | Silesian University of Technology (POLSL) |
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Portugal | Miguel Leitmann | vision-box |
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Romania | Alexandru Nicolin | Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) |
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Russia | Andrei Zudenkov | Gs1ru |
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Serbia | Miroslav Minovic | Laboratory for Multimedia Communications |
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Slovakia | Matus Kapusta | Innovatrics |
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Slovenia | Vitomir Štruc | University of Ljubljana |
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Spain | Raul Sanchez-Reillo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
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Sweden | Fernando Alonso-Fernandez | Halmstad University |
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Switzerland | Sebastien Marcel | IDIAP |
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Turkey | Çağatay Karabat | iSirius Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş |
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Ukraine | Dmitry Shevtsov | JSC KP VTI |
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United Kingdom | Tony Mansfield | Biometrics Working Group |
Requirements and Duties for Ambassadors
A person interested in becoming an Ambassador has to have substantial experience in the field of biometrics.
The person will have to become an EAB member and then needs to inform the EAB secretariat that he/she wants to serve as Ambassador. If he/she is the first person requesting to become a national contact point and if his/her qualification is deemed sufficient by EAB through its Supervisory Board then he/she will be appointed by EAB through its Supervisory Board. If there are multiple candidates, then the most suitable person will be selected in an EAB board meeting.
- An Ambassador has the following duties:
- The main duty of the Ambassador is to support EAB, inform interested local biometric people about EAB activities and to report (via the EAB newsletter) about the activities/projects in the local country.