Hans-Joachim Reck re-elected as CEEP President

Hans-Joachim Reck (President), Milena Angelova, Tom Beattie and Filippo Brandolini (Executive Vice-presidents). Photo by Elmar Thyen.

Mr Hans-Joachim Reck was re-elected as President of CEEP during the General Assembly held in Rome today. Mr Reck does hold the honorary post as President of CEEP since 2012. He has been re-elected for a 3-year mandate.

Mr Reck has been active in politics for a long time, in various functions. From 1993 to 1996, he was party manager of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at federal level and, from 2003 to 2005, he was General Secretary of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2007, Mr Reck is General Director and Chief Executive of the Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, the German Association of Local Utilities.

“I intend to profile CEEP as the main actor for the modernization of public services in Europe”, explained Mr Reck during the General Assembly. “Through benchmarking and peer review, CEEP members are in the best position to refurbish the services they manage.” A special attention will be given in the coming years to the development of Digital Infrastructures to support public services modernisation, in particular public administration. “There is a clear Digital gap in public administration and CEEP will contribute to fill in that gap”, emphasised Mr Reck.

Milena Angelova (Secretary-General of BICA, Bulgaria), Filippo Brandolini (President of HERAmbiente, Italy) and Tom Beattie (President of CEEP UK, United Kingdom) have been elected as Executive Vice-President of the association.