The DL Steering Committee is responsible for carrying out policy determined at the DL business meetings and otherwise assisting the organizers of the DL workshops. Its current members are
| Alisa Kovtunova | TU Dresden | elected 2023-2026 |
| Ana Ozaki | University of Bergen | DL2023 PC Chair, selected 2023-2026, DL2024 General and Local Chair |
| Bartosz Bednarczyk | University of Wroclaw & TU Wien | elected 2025-2028, DL2025 Local Chair |
| Camille Bourgaux | DI ENS, ENS, CNRS, PSL University & Inria, Paris | elected 2024-2027 |
| Laura Giordano | Università del Piemonte Orientale | DL2024 PC Chair, selected 2024-2027 |
| Patrick Koopmann | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | elected 2022-2025, DL2025 PC Chair, selected 2025-2028 |
| Roman Kontchakov | Birkbeck College, London | elected 2009-2012, elected 2024-2027 |
The steering committee chooses PC chairs for the DL workshops.
PC chairs and local organisers of upcoming DL workshops are ex-officio members of the DL
steering committee.
For the upcoming workshop, these are
| Matthias Knorr | NOVA University Lisbon | General and Local Chair |
| Ivan Varzinczak | Université Sorbonne Paris Nord | General Chair |
| Alisa Kovtunova | TU Dresden | PC Chair |
| Barış Sertkaya | Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | PC Chair |
The DL community has a representative on the KR Advisory Board. The representative for 2023 to 2026 is Ana Ozaki.
There exists a moderated mailing-list for the discussions by the steering
committee. Requests and comments to the committee should be sent to
this list, whose address is:
steering@dl.kr.org
Mail sent to the above address will be distributed to all members of the steering committee.
Former members of the DL Steering Committee are:
| Alessandro Artale | University of Bozen-Bolzano | elected 2021-2024 |
| Anni-Yasmin Turhan | TU Dresden | elected 2014-2017 |
| Bernardo Cuenca Grau | University of Oxford | DL2009 organizer, selected 2009-2012, elected 2015-2018 |
| Bijan Parsia | University of Manchester | elected 2004-2007; DL2006 organiser, selected 2006-2009 |
| Birte Glimm | University of Ulm | replaced Boris Motik, who was elected 2008-2011, DL2013 Chair, selected 2013-2016, DL2017 PC Chair, selected 2017-2020 |
| Boris Konev | University of Liverpool | elected 2012-2015, elected 2018-2021 |
| Boris Motik | University of Oxford | elected 2008-2011, stepped down 2009 in favour of Birte Glimm |
| Carsten Lutz | University of Leipzig (formerly University of Bremen) | elected 2003-2006, elected 2006-2009, DL2023 General Chair |
| David Toman | University of Waterloo | elected 2004-2007 |
| Deborah L. McGuinness | Stanford University | 2001-2003 |
| Diego Calvanese | Free University Bozen-Bolzano | DL2003 organiser, selected 2003-2006, DL2015 PC chair, selected 2015-2018 |
| Enrico Franconi | Free University Bozen-Bolzano | DL2007 organizer, selected 2007-2010 |
| Frank Wolter | University of Liverpool | DL2005 organiser, selected 2005-2008 |
| Franz Baader | TU Dresden | 2000-2002, DL2008 organizer selected 2008-2011 |
| Giorgos Stoilos | National Technical University of Athens | elected 2012-2015 |
| Giuseppe De Giacomo | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | elected 2006-2009 |
| Grant Weddell | University of Waterloo | DL2010 organizer, selected 2010-2013 |
| Ian Horrocks | University of Manchester | DL2002 organiser, selected 2002-2005 |
| Jean Christoph Jung | TU Dortmund | elected 2020-2023, DL2022 General Chair, DL2024 PC Chair |
| Jeff Z. Pan | University of Aberdeen | elected 2015-2018 |
| Magdalena Ortiz | TU Wien | elected 2010-2013 |
| Mantas Simkus | TU Wien | DL2014 General Chair, selected 2014-2017; DL2019 PC Chair, selected 2019-2022 |
| Marie-Laure Mugnier | University of Montpellier | DL2022 PC Chair |
| Martin Homola | University of Bratislava | elected 2016-2019, DL2021 General and Local Chair, DL2022 PC Chair, selected 2022-2025 |
| Maurizio Lenzerini | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | 2000-2002 |
| Meghyn Bienvenu | Universite Paris Sud | elected 2009-2012 |
| Ofer Arieli | Academic College of Tel-Aviv | DL2022 Local Chair |
| Oliver Kutz | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | DL2023 PC Chair |
| Pavlos Peppas | University of Patras | DL2023 Local Chair |
| Peter Patel-Schneider | Bell Labs, Murray Hill | 2000-2006, elected 2008-2011 |
| Rafael Penaloza Nyssen | Free University Bozen-Bolzano | DL2016 PC Chair, selected 2016-2019 |
| Ralf Möller | TU Hamburg-Harburg | DL2004 organiser, elected 2007-2010 |
| Renate Schmidt | University of Manchester | DL2021 PC Chair, selected 2021-24 |
| Riccardo Rosati | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | DL2011 organizer, selected 2011-2014 |
| Sebastian Rudolph | TU Dresden | elected 2011-2014 |
| Sergio Tessaris | Università di Bolzano | DL2002 organiser, selected 2002-2005 |
| Stefan Borgwardt | TU Dresden | elected 2017-2020, DL2020 chair, selected 2020-2023 |
| Thomas Schneider | University of Bremen | DL2018 PC Chair, selected 2018-2021 |
| Tommie Meyer | CSIR Meraka Institute | elected 2013-2016 |
| Ulrike Sattler | University of Manchester | 2000-2003, elected 2005-2008 |
| Victor Gutierrez Basulto | Cardiff University | elected 2021-2024 |
| Volker Haarslev | Concordia University, Montreal | DL2004 organiser, selected 2004-2007 |
| Yazmín Ibáñez-García | Cardiff University | DL2025 PC Chair |
| Yevgeny Kazakov | University of Ulm | DL2012 PC Chair, selected 2012-2015 |
The steering committee is currently formed according to the following policy:
The KR Advisory Board representative is currently selected as the continuing DL workshop organizer for even-numbered years.