The EIIL welcomed Dr Ing Albert S Strub as its new President, succeeding Bill Adam, who stood down at the end of the first academic year. Dr Strub graduated in 1955 in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. Dr Strub had a varied and interesting career from teaching Electronics and Nuclear Instrumentation in France to being the Director responsible for the exploitation of the results of the EU’s R&D activities (VALUE Programme) and for the promotion of the innovation capacity and of trans national technology transfer between enterprises (SPRINT Programme) in Luxemburg.  Dr. Strub owns several patents and has published many articles and contributions (as an author or as an editor) to books. He is Honorary Director General of the EU Commission, member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York), of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany), of VDI (Germany) and honorary member of EVCA (European Venture Capital Association, Brussels). He was President of EUTAC S.A., Brussels (1995 – 2002) and worked as senior consultant for several companies. For further information please follow this link: