Meet the people
Shareholders’ Board
The Shareholders’ Board supervises the management and advises the managing director.
Members of The Shareholders’ Board

James Conroy
conroy@ecas-academia.org
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Prof. Dr. James Conroy is Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education (Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith) and Dean of Global Engagement for Europe at the Universitiy of Glasgow. He is also Academic Director of ECAS and chair of the Shareholder’s Board.

David Duncan
David.Duncan@glasgow.ac.uk
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Dr. David Duncan is the University of Glasgow’s Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary. Prior to this, David was Registrar and Secretary at the University of York, a post he held for 8 years. Before then he was Secretary of the University of Dundee from 2001-8. David is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and holds a Masters degree and a PhD in history from Queen’s University, Canada.

Burkhardt Funk
burkhardt.funk@leuphana.de
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Prof. Dr. Burkhardt Funk is professor for information systems at Leuphana University. His research interests encompass building statistical models and decision support systems based on methods from machine learning and Bayesian statistics in a variety of application contexts such as E-Health and E-Commerce.
Photo: Brinkhoff-Mögenburg/Leuphana

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Moritz Dütemeyer holds the esteemed position of deputy Head of Unit for European and International Affairs at the Ministry of Science and Culture for Lower Saxony (MWK) since December 2022. His previous professional experience includes being entrusted with the role of Head of the Minister’s and State Secretary’s office in the MWK. From 2014 to 2020, he was an adviser on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg.

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Jörg Philipp Terhechte
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte is Professor of Public, European and International Law at and Vice President of Leuphana
University Lüneburg.