By consent of the membership at the Bergen Conference in Sept 2008 the ENIRDELM Board was expanded to seven.

Ola Hoff Kaldestad, Assistant Professor, Norsk Lærerakademi (The Norwegian Teacher Academy) in Bergen, Norway. In addition to being Chairperson of ENIRDELM for 2007-8, Ola specialises in teacher education, primarily in a Master Degree programme in Educational Leadership. In recent years ha has been very much involved in school leadership in-service training. This also includes working as a mentor in schools and work as change agent in municipalities. In the 2006-7 academic year he completed several school-evaluation projects.

Paul Mahieu, Professor and Vice-President of the Institute for Education & Information Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Doctor in Political and Social Sciences (1988) based on the thesis: “Participation in School Management, an organisation sociological approach”. Academic coordinator of the Masters degree programme in Educational Management and also involved in the Masters programme in Educational Sciences and the Academic Teacher Training. President of the Local Consultative Body for Primary Education, City of Antwerp and Vice-President of the Trans-national University of Limburg. Areas of Interest: School Leadership and Management, School Culture, Educational Marketing, (de)segregation.

Dr. Eileen O’Connor, Director, Drumcondra Teacher Education Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Awarded EdD at Institute of Education, University of London, in 2008

She is facilitator of teacher and school leaders’ professional development and was formerly a secondary school teacher, Deputy Principal of a Community and Comprehensive School and member of the National Leadership Development for Schools (LDS) Project. Areas of Interest: School Leadership and Administration, Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Learning and Gender and Leadership issues.
Eileen is currently completing Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Education, London researching post-primary school middle leaders’ professional learning experiences and learning needs.

Steinunn Helga Lárusdóttir has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, University of Iceland since 1998 specializing in leadership and management and evaluation of schools. She was formerly a school teacher and head teacher.  She is particularily interested in values and leadership and in gender issues and has taught an optional course on Women in School Management for many years. She has researched the work of Icelandic head teachers for 20 years. And her Ph.D. degree on  „Leadership, Values and Gender: A study of Icelandic Head Teachers“ was completed at the Institute of Education, University of London in 2008

Tibor Baráth - Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Institute of Education, University of Szeged, Hungary since 1992.  He is the director the Hungarian-Netherlands School of Educational Management and has been involved in several national and international research and development programmes in the field of school management and evaluation. His research area is the relation between the management characteristics and school effectiveness, school development, quality management and competence-based personal development. He is a trained and accredited change manager and carries out organizational development projects and T-group training both in and outside the education sector.

Kristina Malmberg, Director of Studies at the Department of Studies in Education, Culture and Media, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.
For the last ten years she has been involved as co-ordinator and facilitator in development programmes for school staff, as lecturer in the Masters Degree programme in Educational Leadership and as evaluator in several studies of school improvement and in-service training programmes at municipality, national and international levels. She is currently engaged in the remodelling of the initial teacher training programme. Main areas of interests: teachers’ professional development, school improvement, management and leadership.

Anita Trnavcevic - Anita Trnavčevič is currently employed as associate professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, Slovenia. She has been involved in national and international projects and in different capacity building projects. The areas of her research work are educational policy analysis, marketization of public education, marketing in education, equity and qualitative research methodology.