Successor to the EPFL presidency: recruitment procedure
The ETH Board has defined the principles of the preparatory procedure for appointing a new President for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and has initiated the appointment process.
At its meeting of 4/5 March 2015, the ETH Board formally commenced the procedure of finding a successor for the presidency of EPFL and defined the principles of the recruitment process. This follows the Federal Council's re-appointment on 18 February 2015 of the current EPFL President Patrick Aebischer until 31 December 2016.
Presidents of the Federal Institutes of Technology are appointed by the Federal Council at the request of the ETH Board. The ETH Board considers preparing for such appointments to be one of its most important tasks. The selection procedure will therefore be carried out by the Board as a whole. It will in particular be prepared with appropriate involvement of the EPFL University Assembly.
For the initial preparatory phase, which is now just starting, the ETH Board is constituting an internal committee which, in particular, will draw up the requirements profile and the public advertisement for the post. The entire Board will conduct interviews and select a shortlist of candidates, as well as submitting a proposal for the appointment to the Federal Council.
The post, together with requirements profile, will be publicly advertised in the first half of this year. The intention is to appoint the new President with effect from 1 January 2017.