Governance

Officers

President [2022-2026]

• Thiago Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
• email: president@...

Treasurer [2024-2028]

• Jian Qin (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA)
• email: treasurer@...

Secretary [2024-2028]

• Athena Salaba (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
• email: secr@...

President-Elect [2024-2026]

• Lu An (Wuhan University, China)

Past-President [2024-2026]

• Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Canada)

Board of Directors [2024-2028]

• collective email: exec@...

• Lu An (Wuhan University, China)
• Thiago Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
• Jian Qin (Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA)
• Athena Salaba (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
• Aida Slavić (UDC Consortium, Netherlands)
• Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
   
  Ex officio:
   
• Birger Hjørland (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) [IEKO Editor-in-Chief]
• Daniel Martínez Ávila (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) [AKO Editor]
• Dagobert Soergel (University at Buffalo, USA) [STAC Chair]
• Natália Tognoli (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) [KO Editor-in-Chief]

Auditors

• Eva Jansen (Canada)
• Jiří Pika (Switzerland)

ISKO officers in Wuhan, 2024: Marcia Zeng, Lu An, Maja Zumer, Thiago Barros, Birger Hjørland, David Haynes, Rick Szostak

Scientific and Technical Advisory Council

• collective email: scient@...
• web pages

Chair

• Dagobert Soergel (University at Buffalo, USA)

Council Members

• See the list on the STAC pages

ISKO Publications Editorial Committee

• Birger Hjørland (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) [IEKO Editor-in-Chief]
• Daniel Martínez Ávila (University of León, Spain) [AKO Editor]
• Natália Tognoli (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)

Special Events Committee

• José Augusto Guimarães (Brazil)
• Widad Mustafa El Hadi (France)
• Heather Moulaison Sandy (C-US)
• Lu An (China, President-elect)
• Thiago Barros (Brazil, President)

See also In memoriam and ISKO past governance

• Jean Aitchison, 1925-2020 ⇗ (also see the obituary in KO 48 (2021) no. 1: 3-5)
• Hanne Albrechtsen, 1949-2024
• Clare Beghtol, 1942-2018 ⇗ (also see the festschrift in KO 37 (2010) no. 2)
• Eric Coates, 1916-2017 (also see the obituary and bibliography in KO 45 (2018) no. 1: 97-107)
• Emilia Currás, 1927-2020 ⇗
• Ingetraut Dahlberg, 1928-2017 (also see the obituary in KO 44 (2017) no. 8: 581-584)
• Robert Fugmann, 1927-2024
• Ia C. McIlwaine, 1935-2019 ⇗
• Jacques Maniez, 1923-2020
• A. Neelameghan, 1927-2014

• 2022-2024 presidency: Thiago Barros, president; David Haynes, secretary; Athena Salaba, treasurer; Lu An, Richard Smiraglia, Rick Szostak, Marcia Zeng, board members
• 2020-2022 presidency: Rick Szostak, president; David Haynes, secretary; Athena Salaba, treasurer; Thiago Barros: president-elect; Lu An, Richard Smiraglia, Marcia Zeng, board members
• 2018-2020 presidency: Rick Szostak, president; Athena Salaba, secretary & treasurer; Amos David, Andreas Ledl, vice presidents; David Haynes, Renato Rocha Souza, Marcia Zeng, board members
• 2016-2018 presidency: Joseph Tennis, president; Amos David, secretary & treasurer; David Haynes, Renato Rocha Souza, Marcia Zeng, board members
• 2014-2016 presidency: Joseph Tennis, president; Amos David, secretary & treasurer; Peter Ohly, Stella Dextre Clarke, vice presidents; Wiesław Babik, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Hemalata Iyer, board members
• 2012-2014 presidency: Peter Ohly, president; Vivian Petras, secretary & treasurer; Wiesław Babik, Stella Dextre Clarke, Claudio Gnoli, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Hemalata Iyer, board members
• 2010-2012 presidency: Peter Ohly, president; Vivian Petras, secretary & treasurer; Stella Dextre Clarke, Claudio Gnoli, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, K. S. Raghavan, Marcia Lei Zeng, board members
• 2008-2010 presidency: María J. López-Huertas, president; Peter Ohly, secretary & treasurer; Clément Arsenault, Claudio Gnoli, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Ia C. McIlwaine, Widad Mustafa el Hadi, K. S. Raghavan, Marcia Lei Zeng, board members
• 2006-2008 presidency: María J. López-Huertas, president; Peter Ohly, secretary & treasurer; Clément Arsenault, Claudio Gnoli, Ia C. McIlwaine, Widad Mustafa el Hadi, board members
• 2004-2006 presidency: Ia C. McIlwaine, president; Peter Ohly, secretary & treasurer
• 2002-2004 presidency: Ia C. McIlwaine, president; Gerhard Riesthuis, secretary & treasurer
• 1998-2002 presidency: Clare Beghtol, president; Gerhard Riesthuis, secretary & treasurer
• 1996-1998 presidency: Hanne Albrechtsen, president; Robert Fugmann, secretary; Helmut Loeckenhoff, treasurer
• 1989-1996 presidency: Ingetraut Dahlberg, president; Robert Fugmann, secretary; Helmut Loeckenhoff, treasurer

Until 2020 the name of the Board of Directors was Executive Board/Committee.

members of ISKO Executive Board at the Aalborg conference, July 2022; left to right: David Haynes, Birger Hjørland, Rick Szostak, Thiago Barros, Athena Salaba, Marcia Zeng (not present: Richard Smiraglia)

former and current members of ISKO Executive Board at the social dinner of the Porto conference, 10th July 2018; left to right: David Haynes, Marcia Lei Zeng, Birger Hjørland, Stella Dextre Clarke, H.-Peter Ohly, Joseph T. Tennis, Rick Szostak, Athena Salaba, Amos David (not present: Andreas Ledl, Renato Rocha Souza, Richard Smiraglia)

former and current members of ISKO Executive Board at the end of the Cracow conference, 22th May 2014; left to right: Wiesław Babik, H.-Peter Ohly, Vivien Petras, Hemalata Iyer, Amos David, Joseph Tennis, María López-Huertas, Birger Hjørland, Claudio Gnoli (not present: Stella Dextre Clarke, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Richard Smiraglia)

ISKO people at the Rome 2010 conference, 26th February 2010; first row, left to right: Fulvio Mazzocchi, Hope Olson, Vivien Petras, María López-Huertas, Claudio Gnoli, Peter Ohly; second row: Marcia Zeng, Richard Smiraglia, Ia McIlwaine, Koti Raghavan; third row: Rebecca Green, Michael Panzer, José Augusto Guimarães, Birger Hjørland; photo by Barbara De Santis