The 12th CEC Assembly (Trondheim, 2003) elected the 40-member Central Committee which, acccording to the CEC Constitution, is “empowered to conduct the business of the Conference when the Assembly is not meeting”. (art. 6.1)

Meeting from 13-18 December, 2003, in Geneva for its first full working session, the Central Committee elected the new CEC officers (President, Vice-President, and Deputy Vice-President). Together, with seven additional members, they form the Presidium and serve as the executive committee of the Central Committee.

The members of the CEC Central Committee
( * indicates member of the CEC Presidium)

North-West
Bishop Richard Chartres, Anglican, UK, England
Dr Alison Elliot, Reformed, UK, Scotland
* Rev. Susan Helen Jones, Anglican, UK, Wales
Ms Heather Morrow, Reformed, UK, Ireland
Rev. Dr Bastiaan Plaisier, Uniting Protestant Churches, Netherlands
Mr Colin Ride, Methodist, UK

Nordic-Baltic
Rev. Helen Bjørnøy, Lutheran, Norway
Mr Simon Larsen, Lutheran, Denmark
* Deputy Vice-President, Dean Margarethe Isberg, Lutheran, Sweden
Ms Anita Jakobsone, Lutheran, Latvia
Ms Kadri Metsma, Lutheran, Estonia
Archpriest Veikko Purmonen, Orthodox, Finish, Finland
Rev. Tapani Rantala, Lutheran, Finland

East
Deacon Alexander Vasyutin, Orthodox, Russian, Russia
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Orthodox, Russian, Russia
Archbishop Yeznik Petrossian, Armenian Apostolic, Armenia
* Archbishop Longin (Talypin), Orthodox, Russian, Germany

Central-East
Mr Boguslaw Buresz, Reformed, Poland
* Patriarch Daniel (Ciobotea), Orthodox, Romanian, Romania
Rev. Elfriede Dörr, Lutheran, Romania
Mr Andrzej Kuzma, Orthodox, Polish, Poland
* Dr Mariella Mihaylova, Methodist, Bulgaria
Rev. Hana Tonzarova-Skorepova, Hussite, Czech Republic

South-East
Metropolitan Emmanuel (Adamakis), Orthodox, Ecumen. Patr., Belgium
Archimandrite Benedict Ioannou, Orthodox, Ecum. Patr., Switzerland
Bishop Athanasios (Hatzopulous), Orthodox, Church of Greece, Greece
Dr George Kakkouras, Orthodox, Church of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ms Katerina Karkala-Zorba, Orthodox, Church of Greece, Greece
* Metropolitan Gennadios (Limouris), Orthodox, Ecum. Patr., Turkey
* Vice-President, Archbishop Anastasios (Yannulatous), Orthodox, Albanian, Albania

Central-West
Ms Almut Bretschneider-Felzmann, United, EKD, Germany
* OKRin Antje Heider-Rottwilm, United, EKD, Germany
Bishop Margot Kässmann, Lutheran, EKD, Germany
OKRin Cordelia Kopish, United, EKD, Germany
Dr OKRin Hannelore Reiner, Lutheran, Austria
Ms Carole Soland, Old Catholic, Switzerland
* Rev. Thomas Wipf, Reformed, Switzerland

South
* President, Revd Jean-Arnold de Clermont, Reformed, France
Bishop Carlos Lopez, Anglican, Spain
Rev. Birgit Wolter, Methodist, Italy