EPFL’s upper management decided to set up the COVID-19 Operating Committee to coordinate and implement all COVID-19-related decisions made by the upper management. It includes representatives from across the School, including the EPFL Assembly, AGEPoly and the EPFL Teachers Council.
Committee duties
The Committee coordinates and implements the decisions made by EPFL’s upper management. Committee members are responsible for implementing the Committee’s decisions within the bodies they represent. More specifically, Committee members are called on to:
- coordinate all operational activities related to COVID-19
- update the Directive setting out the conditions underpinning EPFL’s COVID-19 protection plan
- inform the Committee chair and the general secretary about any developments that require the Committee’s attention or a decision
- act and make decisions on behalf of the bodies they represent
- provide the Committee with the information it needs to make decisions
- implement, or ensure implementation of, the Committee’s decisions within the bodies they represent.
The Committee chair keeps EPFL’s upper management informed of the Committee’s activities.
Committee members
Chair: Matthias Gäumann
AGEPoly: Manon Boissat
EPFL Assembly: Fabio Zuliani
EPFL Teachers Council: Emad Oveisi
Student Affairs: Kathryn Hess Bellwald
Legal affairs: Sonia Gander
Outposts (GE, FR, NE and VS): Martin Gonzenbach
Finance: Stéphane Kury
Human resources: Claudia Noth
Security, safety and facility management : Eric Du Pasquier
IT systems: Rafael Corvalán
Communications and events: Corinne Feuz, Maureen Décosterd, Frédéric Rauss
Scientific advisory committe
The School’s management team is also being advised by a scientific committee composed of Professors Jacques Fellay, Tamar Kohn, Athanasios Nenes, Marcel Salathé, Patrick Thiran and Didier Trono, as well as Dr. Sylvie Berney.