Frank Goodwin | President

As a social worker Frank worked in the psychiatric services for six years and then with Dublin City Council for twenty five years and retired in 2004.
He was founder member of The Carers Association in 1987 and has been chairperson for most years since, up to 2010. He was elected to Eurocarers
Exective Board in 2008 and served as Secretary until AGM 2013 in Dublin , when he was eleced President, to hold office until AGM 2014. 

Giovanni Lamura | Vice-President Research Organisations

After a PhD in "Life course and social policy" at the University of Bremen (Germany), Giovanni have been working at the Italian National Research Centre on Ageing (INRCA) since 1995. His main interests are in the field of comparative research on family care of the elderly (e.g.: EUROFAMCARE); reconciliation of professional and caring responsibilities; migrant care workers; prevention of elder abuse and neglect; long term care; older workers. Currently he is  focusing on migrant care work and involved in “Futurage” (a coordinated action aiming at outlining a “Road Map” for future research on ageing in Europe).

 Marijke Steenbergen | Executive Member 

Licia Boccaletti | Executive Member

Licia is European Project coordinator for Anziani e Non Solo, an Italian NGO working in the field of social research and community development and especially focusing on elderly people and their formal and informal carers.

She is currently involved in several local projects aimed to training and empowerment of formal and informal caregivers as well as project coordinator of Grundtvig Project “Life After Care” on the issue of post-caring and as social researcher for the European Commission pilot project “EU.R.O.P.E.A.N.” on the issue of violence towards elderly people.”

Hanneli Doehner| Executive Member

Marja Tuomi

Helle Lapik

Christine Marking | Adviser

Christine Marking is a Dutch clinical psychologist, with a specialisation in psycho-gerontology and social gerontology.  She has worked previously as a psychologist in a nursing home setting in Amsterdam, where she was mainly involved with assessment and treatment aspects of psycho-geriatric patients as well as managing support groups for carers and relatives.

After moving to Brussels in 1988 she became Marketing Manager with Market Research Intelligence Company, performing market research in the area of pharmaceuticals, and from there moved to the European Commission. There she worked as a consultant with the ageing unit of Directorate General V (Health and Social Affairs) of the European Commission, where she was responsible for the creation of two European wide networks of innovative grass roots projects, project assessment and preparation of the 1993 European Year of Older People.
After two years, she joined Eurolink Age, a European-wide network of older people’s advocacy organisations, representing the interests of older people at EU policy level, and responsible for the co-operation with a number of social and health advocacy groups and became its Director in 1997. 

As one of the initiators and driving forces behind the creation of AGE - the European Older People’s Platform, she was appointed its first Director when AGE started its activities in January 2001.

In September 2002 she joined Weber Shandwick|Adamson as Director of the Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Practice.

Since September 2003, Christine runs Marking Public Affairs sprl in Brussels, which advises on a variety of EU health and social policy related projects and issues.

She is a native Dutch speaker, with fluent English and French, and conversational German and Italian.

Marja Pijl | Adviser