For each participating broadcaster, there must be at least one person available to act as Head of Delegation. This is the project manager who oversees all aspects of an entry to the contest, which sounds glamorous right up until somebody’s staging prop gets stuck in customs.
They attend pre-contest briefings and meetings that take place between editions of the competition. Not all of these people are part of the Eurovision Reference Group.
During Eurovision week, they lead the team from each broadcaster and make sure everything is going vaguely according to plan. If an artist or anyone else in the delegation is unhappy, their concerns should usually go through the Head of Delegation.
They may oversee or influence the national selection process, but that is not always part of the job. They do not always deal with accreditation either, so it is probably not worth sending them a begging letter if you have not been promised so much as a bar stool at Euroclub.
2026 Eurovision Song Contest Heads of Delegation
This list changes all the time, and if we have the wrong name anywhere, feel free to let us know.
- Albania: Edvin Shvarc
- Armenia: David Tserunyan
- Australia: Emily Griggs
- Austria: Katharina Rossek
- Azerbaijan: Nurlana Jafarova
- Belgium: Michaël De Lil
- Bulgaria: Joana Levieva-Sawyer
- Croatia: Tomislav Štengl
- Czechia: Kryštof Šámal
- Cyprus: Evi Papamichael
- Denmark: Erik Struve Hansen
- Estonia: Riin Vann
- Finland: Anssi Autio
- France: Alexandra Redde-Amiel
- Georgia: Natia Mshvenieradze
- Germany: Tina Sikorski
- Greece: Monica Papadatos
- Israel: Yoav Ginai
- Italy: Mariangela Borneo
- Latvia: Guntars Gulbiņš
- Lithuania: Audrius Giržadas
- Luxembourg: Elisabeth Conter
- Malta: Gordon Bonello
- Moldova: Daniela Crudu
- Montenegro: Nataša Baranin
- Norway: Mads Tørklep
- Poland: Tomasz Sołowiński
- Portugal: Carla Bugalho Trindade
- Romania: Iuliana Marciuc
- San Marino: Denny Montesi
- Serbia: Uroš Marković
- Sweden: Lotta Furebäck
- Switzerland: Yves Schifferle
- Ukraine: Oksana Skybinska
- United Kingdom: Andrew Cartmell