Allen Weeks is Director General at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), which he joined in November 2017. Since that time ELI has been established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium and is the world's most advanced high-power laser infrastructure, with locations in the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Before joining ELI, Weeks was a senior manager at the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) where he managed the In-Kind Coordination programme. That effort brought together over 50 European institutions to deliver more than €550 million to construction the leading next generation neutron source. He was also responsible for managing communication and outreach activities, as well as grants.

Weeks began working with European and global research infrastructures in 2005, coordinating the FERMI free-electron laser project in Trieste, Italy. He has experience in industry, having served as Executive Director at Instrumentation Technologies for business development. He spent six years in the pharmaceutical industry. Weeks has experience with many aspects of research infrastructure management and has worked with a large number of stakeholders in Europe, and around the world.

Mr. Weeks is American, and has called Slovenia his European home for 30 years. He has also lived in Slovakia, Italy, Sweden and now the Czech Republic, and has worked extensively in Hungary and a number of other European countries.