Chair Persons
"Program Committees" provides information on chair persons and of VLDB conferences.
| Year | Part | Name | Affiliation/Country |
| 2013 | Honorary Chairs/Advisory Board | Paolo Atzeni | Universita Roma Tre |
| Stefano Ceri | Politecnico di Milano | ||
| John Mylopoulos | University of Trento | ||
| General Chairs | Themis Palpanas | University of Trento | |
| Yannis Velegrakis | University of Trento | ||
| PC Chairs | Michael Böhlen | University of Zurich | |
| Christoph Koch | EPFL | ||
| PC Vice-Chairs | Ashraf Aboulnaga | University of Waterloo | |
| Sihem Amer-Yahia | Qatar Computing Research Institute | ||
| Chee Yong Chan | National University of Singapore | ||
| Yanlei Diao | University of Massachusetts Amherst | ||
| Ada Waichee Fu | Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
| Johannes Gehrke | Cornell University | ||
| Alon Halevy | Google Research | ||
| Jayant Haritsa | Indian Institute of Science | ||
| Nikos Mamoulis | University of Hong Kong | ||
| Thomas Neumann | Technische Universität München | ||
| Dan Olteanu | University of Oxford | ||
| Divesh Srivastava | AT&T Labs Research | ||
| Jens Teubner | ETH Zurich | ||
| Industrial and Applications Track Co-Chairs | Min Wang | Google Research | |
| Cong Yu | Google Research | ||
| Demo PC Co-Chairs | Jun Yang | Duke University | |
| Dimitrios Gunopulos | University of Athens | ||
| Letizia Tanca | Politecnico di Milano | ||
| Tutorial PC Co-Chairs | Serge Abiteboul | INRIA | |
| Gianni Mecca | Universita della Basilicata | ||
| Haixun Wang | Microsoft Research Asia | ||
| Panel Co-Chairs | Shivnath Babu | Duke University | |
| Stavros Harizopoulos | nou data | ||
| Ihab Ilyas | Qatar Computing Research Institute | ||
| Workshop Co-Chairs | Tiziana Catarci | Sapienza Universita di Roma | |
| AnHai Doan | University of Wisconsin and @WalmartLabs | ||
| Tova Milo | Tel Aviv University | ||
| PhD Program Co-Chairs | Angela Bonifati | Icar-CNR | |
| Sanjay Chawla | University of Sydney | ||
| Chris Jermaine | Rice University | ||
| Proceedings Co-Chair | Stratis Viglas | University of Edinburgh | |
| Best Paper Award Committee | Michael Böhlen | University of Zurich | |
| Vanja Josifovski | Yahoo Inc. | ||
| Christoph Koch | EPFL | ||
| Mohamed Mokbel | University of Minnesota | ||
| Dan Olteanu | University of Oxford | ||
| Kenneth Salem | Univesity of Waterloo | ||
| Divesh Srivastava | AT&T Labs Research | ||
| Jens Teubner | ETH Zurich | ||
| VLDB Award Committee | Mike Carey | University of California, Irvine (Chair) | |
| Surajit Chaudhuri | Microsoft Research | ||
| Susan Davidson | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Alon Halevy | |||
| Sunita Sarawagi | IIT Bombay | ||
| Sponsor Chairs | Sam Madden | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Vassilis Vassalos | Athens University of Economics and Business | ||
| Paolo Merialdo | Universita Roma Tre | ||
| Local Organization Chairs | Themis Palpanas | University of Trento | |
| Yannis Velegrakis | University of Trento | ||
| Treasurer | Marios Hadjieleftheriou | AT&T Labs Research | |
| Reproducibility Chairs | Philippe Bonnet | IT University of Copenhagen | |
| Juliana Freire | New York University | ||
| Dennis Shasha | New York University | ||
| Registration Administration | Periklis Andritsos | University of Toronto | |
| Publicity Chair | Tasos Kementsietsidis | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center | |
| Web Management | Francesco Guerra | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia | |
| Experiments and Analysis Track Associate Editor | Stefan Manegold | CWI Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica | |
| 2012 | Honorary Chair | Tamer Ozsu | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| General Co-Chairs | Adnan Yazici | METU, Turkey | |
| Ling Liu | Georgia Tech, USA | ||
| General PC Chair | Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu | Case Western Reserve University, USA | |
| Research Track PC Co-Chairs | Ugur Cetintemel | Brown University, USA | |
| Nilesh Dalvi | Yahoo Research | ||
| Hank Korth | Lehigh University, USA | ||
| Anthony Tung | National University of Singapore, Singapore | ||
| Experiments and Analysis Track PC Co-Chairs | Gustavo Alonso | ETH, Switzerland | |
| Juliana Freire | NYU Poly, USA | ||
| Industrial and Applications Track PC Co-Chairs | Alon Halevy | ||
| Vivek Narasayya | Microsoft Research | ||
| Fatma Ozcan | IBM | ||
| VLDB Endowment Liaison | Surajit Chaudhuri | Microsoft Research | |
| Proceedings Co-Chair | Ahmet Sacan | Drexel University, USA | |
| Nesime Tatbul | ETH, Switzerland | ||
| Panel Program Co-Chairs | K. Selcuk Candan | Arizona State, USA | |
| Panos K, Chrysanthis | University of Pittsburgh, USA | ||
| Daniel A Keim | University of Konstanz, Germany | ||
| Tutorial Program Co-Chairs | Chung Chin Wan | KAIST, South Korea | |
| Bugra Gedik | IBM TJ Watson, USA | ||
| Ken Salem | University of Waterloo, Canada | ||
| Workshop Program Co-Chairs | Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu | OSU, USA | |
| James Joshi | University of Pittsburgh, USA | ||
| Andreas Wombacher | Twente University, The Netherlands | ||
| Demo Program Co-Chairs | Lukasz Golab | University of Waterloo, Canada | |
| Evaggelia Pitoura | University of Ioannina, Greece | ||
| Ozgur Ulusoy | Bilkent University, Turkey | ||
| PhD Program Co-Chairs | Ioana Manolescu | INRIA, France | |
| Jeffery Xu Yu | Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
| Murat Kantarcıoglu | University of Texas at Dallas, USA | ||
| Ten-Year Best Paper Award Committee | Rick Snodgrass | University of Arizona, USA (Chair) | |
| Karl Aberer | EPFL, Switzerland | ||
| Masaru Kitsuregawa | Univ of Toyko, Japan | ||
| David Lomet | Microsoft, USA | ||
| Kyu-Young Whang | KAIST, South Korea | ||
| Best Paper Award Committee | Surajit Chaudhuri | Microsoft, USA (Chair) | |
| Yannis Ioannidis | National University of Athens, Greece | ||
| Christian S. Jensen | Aarhus University, Denmark | ||
| Beng Chin Ooi | National University of Singapore | ||
| Gerhard Weikum | Max-Planck Institute, Germany | ||
| Philip Yu | UIC, USA | ||
| Sponsor Chairs | Eşref Adalı | ITÜ, Turkey | |
| Sam Madden | MIT, USA | ||
| Patrick Valduriez, | INRIA, France | ||
| Publicity Chair | Ramazan Savaş Aygün | University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA | |
| Treasurer | Ismail Hakki Toroslu | METU, Turkey | |
| Registration Chair | Pınar Senkul | METU, Turkey | |
| Web Management | Sertan Girgin | Google, France | |
| 2011 | General Chair | Paul Larson | Microsoft Research |
| General PC Co-Chairs | Joseph M. Hellerstein | University of California - Berkeley | |
| Jose Blakeley | Microsoft | ||
| Research Track Co-Chairs | Nick Koudas | University of Toronto and Sysomos Inc. | |
| Wolfgang Lehner | Dresden U of Technology | ||
| Sunita Sarawagi | IIT Bombay | ||
| Industrial and Applications Track Co-Chairs | Berthold Reinwald | IBM Almaden | |
| Phil Bohannon | Yahoo! Research | ||
| Challenges and Vision Track Chair | Gerhard Weikum | Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik | |
| Demo PC Co-Chairs | Jignesh Patel | University of Wisconsin - Madison | |
| Masatoshi Yoshikawa | University of Kyoto | ||
| Tutorial PC Co-Chairs | Qiong Luo | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology | |
| Gerome Miklau | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | ||
| Workshop Co-Chairs | Luis Gravano | Columbia University | |
| Chris Jermaine | Rice University | ||
| PhD Workshop Chair | Philippe Bonnet | IT University of Copenhagen | |
| Proceedings Chair | Uwe Roehm | University of Sydney | |
| Ten-year awards committee | Bettina Kemme | McGill University, Canada | |
| Tova Milo | Tel Aviv University, Israel | ||
| Divesh Srivastava | AT&T Labs | ||
| Best paper awards committee | Umesh Dayal | HP Labs | |
| Donald Kossmann | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | ||
| Stan Zdonik | Brown University (Chair) | ||
| Sponsorships | David Dewitt | Microsoft | |
| Local Chair | Arnd Christian König | Microsoft Research | |
| 2010 | General Co-Chairs | Tok Wang LING | Singapore |
| Krithi RAMAMRITHAM | India | ||
| Technical Program Chair | Elisa BERTINO | USA | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Kian Lee TAN | Singapore | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Paolo ATZENI | Italy | |
| Industrial Applications and Experience Program Chair | Philip S. YU | USA | |
| Experiments and Analyses Program Chair | Masaru KITSUREGAWA | Japan | |
| Demonstrations Program Co-Chairs | Ralf Hartmut GÜTING | Germany | |
| Wang-Chien LEE | USA | ||
| Ee-Peng LIM | Singapore | ||
| Xiaofeng MENG | China | ||
| PhD Program Co-chairs | John MYLOPOULOS | Canada | |
| Lizhu ZHOU | China | ||
| Xiaofang ZHOU | Australia | ||
| Workshop Program Co-Chairs | Amol DESHPANDE | USA | |
| Zachary G. IVES | USA | ||
| Anthony Kum Hoe TUNG | Singapore | ||
| Tutorial Program Co-Chairs | Guozhu DONG | USA | |
| Hwee Hwa PANG | Singapore | ||
| Panel Program Co-Chairs | Marianne WINSLETT | USA | |
| Jeffrey Xu YU | Hong Kong | ||
| 2009 | General Chair | Patrick Valduriez | France |
| Technical Program Chair | Serge Abiteboul | France | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Jignesh M. Patel | USA | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Tova Milo | Israel | |
| Industrial, Applications and Experience Program Co-Chairs | Mike Carey | USA | |
| Sihem Amer-Yahia | USA | ||
| Experiments and Analyses Program Chair | Volker Markl | USA | |
| Demonstration Co-Chairs | Philippe Pucheral | France | |
| Neoklis Polyzotis | France | Jayant Haritsa | India |
| Workshop Co-Chairs | Yufei Tao | Hong Kong | |
| Juliana Freire | USA | ||
| Tutorial Co-Chairs | Anastasia Ailamaki | USA | |
| Catriel Beeri | Israel | ||
| Panel Co-Chairs | Philip Bernstein | USA | |
| Stefano Ceri | Italy | ||
| Sunita Sarawagi | India | ||
| 2008 | General Co-Chairs | Gill Dobbie | New Zealand |
| Laura Haas | USA | ||
| General Program Chair | Peter Buneman | UK | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Beng Chin Ooi | Singapore | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Kenneth Ross | USA | |
| Industrial Applications and Experience Program Chair | Rajeev Rastogi | India | |
| Demonstrations Program Chair | Tova Milo | Israel | |
| Experiments and Analyses Program Chair | Volker Markl | USA | |
| Tutorial Program Co-chairs | Rick Hull | USA | |
| Yannis Velegrakis | Italy | ||
| Xiaofang Zhou | Australia | ||
| Workshop Co-chairs | Susan Davidson | USA | |
| Fred Lochovsky | Hong Kong | ||
| Eric Simon | France | ||
| 2007 | General Chair | Wolfgang Klas | Austria |
| Erich J. Neuhold | Austria | ||
| Technical Program Chair | Johannes Gehrke | USA | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Minos Garofalakis | USA | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Divesh Srivastava | USA | |
| Industrial, Applications, and Experience Co-Chair | Karl Aberer | Switzerland | |
| Anand Deshpande | India | ||
| Dana Florescu | USA | ||
| Tutorial Co-Chair | Soumen Chakrabarti | India | |
| Gerti Kappel | Austria | ||
| Dennis Shasha | USA | ||
| Panel Co-Chair | Jim Gray | USA | |
| Matthias Jarke | Germany | ||
| Sunita Sarawagi | India | ||
| Workshop Co-Chair | Georg Gottlob | England | |
| H.V. Jagadish | USA | ||
| Krithi Ramamritham | India | ||
| Demonstration Co-Chair | Chee-Yong Chan | Singapore | |
| Venkatesh Ganti | USA | ||
| Carl-Christian Kanne | Germany | ||
| 2006 | General Chair | Kyu-Young Whang | Korea |
| Workshop Co-Chair | Ming-Chien Shan | USA | |
| Sang-goo Lee | Korea | ||
| General Program Chair | Hongjun Lu(in memoriam) | China | |
| Umeshwar Dayal | USA | ||
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | David Lomet | USA | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Gustavo Alonso | Switzerland | |
| Industrial, Applications, and Experience Program Co-Chair | Guy Lohman | USA | |
| Martin Kersten | The Netherlands | ||
| Sang K. Cha | Korea | ||
| Tutorial Program Co-Chair | Christos Faloutsos | USA | |
| Tiziana Catarci | Italy | ||
| Kyuseok Shim | Korea | ||
| Panel Program Co-Chair | Michael Carey | USA | |
| Masaru Kitsuregawa | Japan | ||
| Seog Park | Korea | ||
| Demonstration Co-Chair | Tore Risch | Sweden | |
| Maria Orlowska | Australia | ||
| Keun Ho Ryu | Korea | ||
| 2005 | General Chair | Kjell Bratbergsengen | Norway |
| Technical Program Chair | Christian S. Jensen | Denmark | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Martin Kersten | Netherlands | |
| Industrial and Applications Program Chair | Per-Åke Larson | USA | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Laura Haas | USA | |
| Demonstrations Chair | Beng Chin Ooi | Singapore | |
| Panel Program Chair | Tore Risch | Sweden | |
| Tutorial Program Chair | Masaru Kitsuregawa | Japan | |
| Workshops Chair | Klaus R. Dittrich | Switzerland | |
| Organization Committee Chair | Mads Nygård | Norway | |
| Coordination of CO-Located Workshops and Conferences Chair | Svein Erik Bratsberg | Norway | |
| 2004 | General Chair | John Mylopoulos | Canada |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Donald Kossmann | Germany | |
| Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair | Renée Miller | Canada | |
| Industrial and Applications Program Chair | Jose Blakeley | USA | |
| Berni Schiefer | Canada | ||
| Tutorial Program Co-Chair | Raymond Ng | Canada | |
| Matthias Jarke | Germany | ||
| Panel Program Co-Chair | Jarek Gryz | Canada | |
| Fred Lochovsky | Hong Kong | ||
| Demonstrations Chair | Bettina Kemme | Canada | |
| David Toman | Canada | ||
| Workshops Co-Chair | Alberto Mendelzon | Canada | |
| S. Sudarshan | India | ||
| General Conference Chair | Klaus Dittrich | Switzerland | |
| Hans-Jörg Schek | Switzerland | ||
| Programme Committee Co-Chair | Peter M. D. Gray | United Kingdom | |
| Umeshwar Dayal | USA | ||
| Shojiro Nishio | Japan | ||
| Industrial Track Program Chair | Peter C. Lockemann | Germany | |
| Hamid Pirahesh | USA | ||
| Yoshifumi Masunaga | Japan | ||
| Tutorial Chair | Claude Delobel | France | |
| Panel Chair | Stefano Ceri | Italy | |
| 2003 | Conference Chair | Peter C. Lockemann | Germany |
| Honorary Chair | Herbert Weber | Germany | |
| Technical Program Chair | Johann-Christoph Freytag | Germany | |
| Core Database Technology Program Chair | Serge Abiteboul | France | |
| Infrastructure for Information System Program Chair | Michael Carey | USA | |
| Industrial Applications & Experience Program Chair | Pat Selinger | USA | |
| Panel Program Chair | Stefano Ceri | Italy | |
| Tutorial Program Co-Chair | Donald Kossmann | Germany | |
| Tutorial Program Co-Chair | Rakesh Agrawal | USA | 2002 | Conference Co-Chair | Frederick H. Lochovsky | Hong Kong |
| Wang Shan | P. R. China | ||
| Technical Chair | Phil Bernstein | USA | |
| Core Database Chair | Raghu Ramakrishnan | USA | |
| Infrastricture for Information System Chair | Yannis Ioannidis | Greece | |
| Industrial Program Chair | David W. L. Cheung | Hong Kong | |
| Pamela A. Drew | USA | James R. Hamilton | USA |
| Tutorial Program Chair | Stavros Christodoulakis | Greece | |
| Dik L. Lee | Hong Kong | ||
| Alberto Mendelzon | Canada | ||
| Panel Program Chair | Elisa Bertino | Italy | |
| Michael Carey | USA | ||
| Kam-Fai Wong | Hong Kong | ||
| 2001 | General Chair | Paolo Atzeni | Italy |
| Coordinating Program Chair | Stefano Ceri | Italy | |
| Panel Chair | Matthias Jarke | Germany | |
| Tutorial Chair | Patrick Valduriez | France | |
| Industrial Program Chair | Michele Missikoff | Italy | |
| Laura M. Haas | USA | ||
| Application Program Chair | Carlo Batini | Italy | |
| Shalom Tsur | USA | ||
| Demonstrations Chair | Piero Fraternali | Italy | |
| 2000 | General Conference Chair | Nabil Kamel | Egypt |
| Program Committee Chair | Michael Brodie | USA | |
| Amr El Abbadi | USA | ||
| Gunter Schlageter | Germany | ||
| Kyu-Young Whang | Korea | ||
| Industrial Program Chair | Umeshwar Dayal | USA | |
| Panel and Demonstrations Chair | Opher Etzion | Israel | |
| Ahmed Elmagarmid | USA | ||
| Tutorial Chair | Susan Davidson | USA | |
| Divyakant Agrawal | USA | ||
| 1999 | General Conference Chair | Keith G. Jeffery | United Kingdom |
| Organisation Chair | Jessie Kennedy | United Kingdom | |
| Programme Committee Chair | Malcolm Atkinson | United Kingdom | |
| Industrial Programme Chair | Michael Brodie | USA | |
| Panel and Demonstrations Chair | Ron Morrison | United Kingdom | |
| Tutorial Programme Chair | Carole Goble | United Kingdom | |
| 1998 | General Conference Chair | Alexandros Biliris | USA |
| Inderpal Singh Mumick | USA | ||
| Research Program Chair | Jennifer Widom | USA | |
| Oded Shmueli | Israel | ||
| Industrial Program Chair | Dennis Shasha | USA | |
| Patrick Valduriez | France | ||
| Panel Program Chair | Klaus Dittrich | Switzerland | |
| Yannis Ioannidis | Greece | ||
| Tutrial Program Chair | H. V. Jagadish | USA | |
| 1997 | General Conference Chair | Yannis Vassiliou | Greece |
| Program Committee Chair | Matthias Jarke | Germany | |
| Klaus Dittrich | Switzerland | ||
| Michael Carey | USA | ||
| Frederick H. Lochovsky | Hong Kong | ||
| Industrial/Commerical Track Chair | Pericles Loucopoulos | United Kingdom | |
| Tutorial Chair | Yannis Ioannidis | USA | |
| M. Tamer Özsu | Canada | ||
| Panel Chair | Ramez Elmasri | USA | |
| Arie Segev | USA | ||
| 1996 | General Chair | Deepak B. Phatak | India |
| Sham Navathe | USA | ||
| Program Chair | Nandlal L. Sarda | India | |
| C. Mohan | USA | ||
| Alejandro Buchmann | Germany | ||
| Industry/Application Chair | Anand Deshpande | India | |
| Jim Gray | USA | ||
| Peter C. Lockemann | Germany | ||
| Tutorial Chair | P. Sadanandan | India | |
| Sharma Chakravarthy | USA | ||
| Panel Chair | V. R. Govindarajan | India | |
| Amit Sheth | USA |