Executive Committee 2025
Members of the TDWG Executive Committee] for the 2025 calendar year.
Image by Tim Graf
Managing officers
| Role | Name | Affiliation | Term of office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair | David Bloom 📧 | VertNet, Berkeley, CA, USA | 2025-2026 |
| Deputy Chair | TBA | ||
| Secretary | Visotheary Ung | Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France | 2025-2026 |
| Treasurer | Chandra Earl 📧 | NEON Biorepository, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | 2025-2026 |
Subcommittee chairs
| Functional Subcommittee | Name | Affiliation | Term of office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical Architecture Group | Ben Norton 📧 | 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 | Nicky Nicolson 📧 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK | 2025-2026 |
| 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 | Brice Djiofack 📧 | Cameroon | 2025 |
| Asia | Daphne Hoh 📧 | Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, Taipei, Taiwan | 2025-2026 |
| Europe | Wouter Addink 📧 | Naturalis, Leiden | 2025-2026 |
| Latin America | Juan Miguel Saez Hidalgo 📧 | Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Santiago, Chile | 2025-2026 |
| North America | Erica Krimmel 📧 | Independent Biodiversity Information Scientist, Sacramento, CA | 2025-2026 |
| 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 |
| Past Chair (2023-2024) | Elycia (Ely) Wallis 📧 | CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia |
| Past Chair (2021-2022) | Deb Paul 📧 | Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA |