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