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
Executive Director
Anne Carter Aitken
Treasurer
Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
2025-2026 Student Representatives
PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis
University of Vermont, USA
2025-2026 Board
Postdoctoral researcher at the Social-Ecological Systems Institute at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Department of Economics, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Tiziano Distefano
University of Florence, Department of Economics
Department of Sustainability Sciences, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Villahermosa, Tabasco Mexico
Xi Ji
School of Economics & Center for Human and Economic Development Studies at Peking University
Teresa Meira
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK
Sophia Sanniti
Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAe), Agroecology Joint Research Unit in Dijon, France
Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey