After three years banging the drum for science in Europe, Bertil Andersson, CEO of the European Science Foundation (ESF), is leaving to take up the post of Rector at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Still a Europhile: ESF’s Bertil Andersson“I am still a Europhile,” insists Professor Andersson. “It’s just that Singapore is, in a molecular chemistry sense, an attractive force that is pulling me in.” He added, “But it is definitely not at all the case that Strasbourg or Europe is a repulsive force.”
In the course of his three year tenure with the ESF, Andersson has been instrumental in some of the most significant restructuring to have taken place since the organisation was founded more than thirty years ago.
This includes the Strategic Plan for 2006–2010, which his successor will now be left to implement.
Andersson is being replaced temporarily by John Marks, Director of Science and Strategy for the ESF since 2004, who is standing in until a new CEO is appointed.
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