Executive Committee 2024
Members of the TDWG Executive Committee for the 2024 calendar year.
Image by Tim Graf
Managing officers
| Role | Name | Affiliation | Term of office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair | Elycia (Ely) Wallis | CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia | 2023-2024 |
| Deputy Chair | David Bloom | VertNet, Berkeley, CA, USA | 2023-2024 |
| Secretary | Visotheary Ung | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | 2023-2024 |
| Treasurer | David Bloom (Acting Treasurer) | VertNet, Berkeley, CA, USA | 2024-2025 |
Subcommittee chairs
| Functional Subcommittee | Name | Affiliation | Term of office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical Architecture Group | Ben Norton | Ecosystem, Planning, and Restoration; Raleigh, NC, USA | 2024-2025 |
| Fundraising and Partnerships | Patricia Mergen | Royal Museum for Central Africa and Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium | 2024-2025 |
| Infrastructure | Tim Robertson | Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark | 2024-2025 |
| Outreach and Communications | Mareike Petersen | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany | 2023-2024 |
| Time and Place | Kristen “Kit” Lewers | Information Science and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, and iDigBio, University of Florida, USA | 2024-2025 |
Regional Representatives
| Region | Name | Affiliation | Term of office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Ian Engelbrecht | Natural Science Collections Facility, South Africa | 2023-2024 |
| Asia (co-rep) | Vijay Barve | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA, USA | 2023-2024 |
| Asia (co-rep) | Takeru Nakazato | Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Tokyo, Japan | 2023-2024 |
| Europe | Laurence Livermore | Natural History Museum, London, England | 2023-2024 |
| Latin America | TBA | 2024-2025 | |
| North America | Chandra Earl | NEON Biorepository, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | 2023-2024 |
| Oceania | Shelley James | Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH), Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions | 2024-2025 |
Regularly invited participants (non-voting)
| Role | Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Conference Program Committee Co-Chair | Gail Kampmeier | Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA |
| Administrator, TDWG Secretariat | Stan Blum | San Francisco, CA, USA |