IASA Executive Board for 2026-2029 - election announcement

Dear IASA Members,

As you know, 2026 is an election year for the IASA Executive Board. As stated in the IASA constitution: “The Executive Board shall be elected by the members of the Association. Any member in good standing shall be eligible to stand for election.” - See more at: http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa-constitution#part3-Exec
 
As required by the constitution, a nominating committee was appointed, and a call for nominees was undertaken. The nomination process is now complete, and the committee is pleased to announce that the following are the election candidates for the IASA Executive Board for 2026-2029.

For President: Ketevan Davitashvili, Gisa Jahnichen, Judith Opoku-Boateng

For Vice-President: Audra Adomenas, Dan Hockstein, Susan Kibaara, Kjetil Landrog,
Ling Jiasui, Cadu Marconi, Andrew Martin, Mengchun Tsai

For Secretary-General (acclaimed): Pedro Felix

For Treasurer (acclaimed): Nadia Lai 

For Editor (acclaimed): Marija Dumnic Vilotijevic

For Web Manager (acclaimed): Bright Joshua 

The current IASA President, Patrick J. Midtling, will become Past President.

Biographies and personal vision statements for each of the candidates can be found below:

https://www.iasa-web.org/iasa-executive-board-2026-election-candidates

Voting for the roles of the 3 Vice-Presidents will be held soon, by electronic ballot. All members in good standing are eligible to vote, and all eligible members whose email addresses are up-to-date on the members e-list will receive an email invitation from Helios Voting Administrator that includes: brief instruction, a link to the online ballot, your voter ID, and your voter password. Instititutional members are entitled to two votes each: one person from each institution will receive two votes.

If you believe you are a member in good standing and do not receive the invitation message from Helios Voting Administrator, please contact Aaron Bittel (abittel@wesleyan.edu(link sends e-mail)). Voting is very simple and will only take you a few minutes.

Voting will open on 19 June 2026 and close on 19 September 2026.

Thanks to all the candidates for agreeing to support IASA by running for the Executive Board.

The candidates' election statements and biographies are provided below.

Best wishes,

Aaron Bittel
Chair, IASA Nominating Committee
Ilse Assmann
Member, IASA Nominating Committee
Elisabeth Steinhauser
Member, IASA Nominating Committee