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Board of Directors

The International Society for Ecological Economics operates in accordance with a Constitution, and a set of Bylaws, adopted by its members. All officers are elected or appointed by the elected Board. The Board consists of the President, Past-President, President-Elect and ordinary board members, plus two Student Representatives. 

The Board meets by Zoom monthly. 

2025-2026 Executive Board

Erik Gomez-Baggethun

President

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway

Eszter Kelemen

President-Elect

Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG)

Roldan-Muradian

Past-President

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anne Aitken

Executive Director

Anne Carter Aitken

Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth

Treasurer

Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)

2025-2026 Student Representatives

Alejandra Cano
Alejandra Cano

PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis

Lizah Makombore
Lizah Makambore

University of Vermont, USA

2025-2026 Board

Ernest Aigner
Ernest Aigner

Postdoctoral researcher at the Social-Ecological Systems Institute at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

Paola Aria Arevalo
Paola Arias-Arévalo

Department of Economics, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Lina Brand Correa
Lina Brand Correa

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Tiziano Distefano

Tiziano Distefano
University of Florence, Department of Economics

M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado
M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado

Department of Sustainability Sciences, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Villahermosa, Tabasco Mexico

Xi Ji

Xi Ji
School of Economics & Center for Human and Economic Development Studies at Peking University

Teresa Meira

Teresa Meira
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Paula Novo
Paula Novo

Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK

Sophia Sanniti

Sophia Sanniti
Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

Zafarani Uwingabire, Ph.D.
Zafarani Uwingabire

French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAe), Agroecology Joint Research Unit in Dijon, France

Christine Corlet Walker
Christine Corlet Walker

Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey

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