ELIG is an open industry group with members representing the full value chain of 21st- century services, products, and solutions in support of knowledge and learning advancement. The Executive Committee, which is elected on a biennial cycle, oversees the strategy for the group, identifies key areas to target, and provides guidance on issues relating to policy initiatives.

The new ELIG Executive Committee, which has been extended to include new roles and new members, is chaired once again by Fabrizio Cardinali, VP of Global Business Development at eXact Learning Solutions. This is the new market name of the former Giunti labs following an MBO in 2010.

The members include Martti Raevaara of Aalto University, Finland, an example of the new public-private partnerships in academia; Fadi A Khalek, McGraw-Hill, a globalised learning- content provider, and Rolf Granow of On Campus, Germany, a spinoff of the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. Paul Hunter, Director of the Corporate Learning Network, IMD, takes on the newly created role of Vice Chair for the Group.

Fabrizio Cardinali comments, "We welcome the additional members to the Executive Committee because of the increased diversity they bring, representing as they do these key areas of SMEs, who continue to represent the largest business group in Europe and for whom workplace development is always a challenge. Public-private partnerships are emerging as a new model within the education sector, and global content development is increasingly commonplace."

"The breadth of the new Executive Committee reflects the growing importance being placed on learning, especially technology-enhanced, learning - in the workplace. As learning that depends on rapid technological development becomes pervasive and an increasingly competitive factor that relentlessly drives innovation, thus pushing organisations to increase productivity, ELIG has a strategically critical role to raise awareness and enable high-level discussion with key opinion formers and regulatory bodies", he continues.

Richard Straub, Secretary General of ELIG, adds, "The re-election of Fabrizio Cardinali as Chair of the Executive Committee provides continued stability for ELIG, while the new members bring a dynamic perspective and reflect the organisation's strengthened role as a voice of the learning-solutions industry."