Executive Board 2025-2027

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Honorary presidents
Bernard Bauer, Germany
Shizuo Oi, Japan
Shlomi Constantini, Israel
Spyros Sgouros, Greece
Giuseppe Cinalli, Italy
Henry Schroeder, Germany

Past-president
Alvaro Cordoba, Uruguay

President
Kenichi Nishiyama, Japan

President-elect
Samer Elbabaa, USA

Secretary
Joachim Oertel, Germany

Treasurer
Llewellyn Padayachy
, South Africa

ISGNE/studies
Tenoch Herrada Pineda, Mexico

2027 Congress Chairman
Mohamed El Beltagy, Egypt

Scientific Committee
Chair: Stefan Wolfsberger, Austria
Co-Chair: Sergey Gorelyshev, Russia

Education Committee

Chair: Bassel Zebian, UK
Co-Chair: Kazuhito Takeuchi, Japan

Liaison Committee
Chair: Adrian Caceres, Costa Rica
Co-Chair: Waleed Azab, Kuwait

Audit Committee
Chair: Jonathan Roth, Israel
Co-Chair: Suresh Sankhla, India

Guidelines Committee
Chair: Artur da Cunha, Brazil
Co-Chair: Aneela Darbar, UA

Membership Committee
Chair: Ulrich Thomale, Germany
Co-Chair: Sandi Lam, USA

By-Laws Committee
Chair: Manas Panigrahi, India
Co-Chair: Pietro Spennato, Italy

Historian
Guiseppe Cinalli, Italy


Continental representatives

North America
Abhaya Kulkarni, Canada
Clemens Schirmer, USA
Sammy Yousef, USA
Michael Decuypere, USA

Latin America
Paulo Porto de Melo, Brazil
Nelci Zanon
, Brazil
Kemel Ghotme
, Colombia
Javier Gonzalez Ramos
, Argentina
Sebastian Jaimovich
, Argentina

Europe
Flavio Giordano, Italy
Mahmoud Messerer
, Switzerland
Roman Bosnjak
, Slovenia
Esperanza Arcas
, Spain
Mehmet Ozek
, Turkey

Asia
Doo-Sik Kong, South Korea
Calvin Mak, Hong Kong
Takeo Goto, Japan
Mirna Sobana, Indonesia
Abdulrazaq Al Ojan, Saudi Arabia

Africa
Peter Ssenyonga, Uganda
Teddy Totimeh, Ghana
Mahmoud Abbassy, Egypt
Denis Mutyaba, South Africa

Australia
Virginia Maixner, Australia



Past Executive Board Members