List of Candidates for 2025 IUSSP Council Elections

Date: 28 April 2025

 

Elections for IUSSP Officers and Council members for 2026-2029 will take place from 15 September to 27 October 2025. Following the procedure outlined in article 10 of the IUSSP Constitution, the Committee on Nominations has prepared the first list of candidates (read the Committee on Nominations’ report.)
 

Candidates proposed by the Committee on Nominations
for the 2026-2029 Council:
 

Vice President 
(President Elect 2030-33)

(1 seat, two nominees)

Reiko Hayashi [Japan]
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Japan)		Emilio Zagheni [Italy]
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - MPIDR (Germany)
Secretary General and
   Treasurer
(1 seat, two nominees)		Anne Goujon [France]
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) & Vienna Institute of Demography (Austria)		Tom Moultrie [South Africa]
CARe, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Council member
   for Africa
(1 seat, two nominees)		Ayaga Bawah [Ghana]
Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana		Estelle Monique Sidze [Cameroon]
African Population and Health Research Center - APHRC (Kenya)
Council member
   for Asia and Oceania
(1 seat, two nominees)		Grace Cruz [Philippines]
University of the Philippines Population Institute		Leiwen Jiang [China]
ADRI, Shanghai University (China)
Council member
   for Europe
(1 seat, two nominees)		Albert Esteve [Spain]
Center for Demographic Studies (Spain)		Magali Barbieri [France]
Institut National d'Études Démographiques - INED (France)
Council member
   for Latin-America
(1 seat, two nominees)		Georgina Binstock [Argentina]
Centro de Estudios de Población - CENEP (Argentina)		Ignacio Pardo [Uruguay]
Universidad de La República (Uruguay)
Council member
  for North America
(1 seat, two nominees)		Sara Curran [United States]
University of Washington (United States)		Robert Hummer [United States]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States)

Council Member at large  (4 seats, 8 nominees)

Visseho Adjiwanou [Togo; Canada]
 Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)		Aude Bernard [Australia; France]
University of Queensland (Australia)
Audrey Dorélien [United States]
University of Washington (United States)		Stuart Gietel-Basten [United Kingdom]
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mahesh Karra [United States]
Boston University (United States)		Ann Moore [United States]
Guttmacher Institute (United States)
KG Santhya [India]
Independent Researcher (India)		Romesh Silva [Australia; United Kingdom]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

 

Additional candidate proposed by the membership:

 

  • Nico van Nimwegen [Netherlands], Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute - NIDI (Netherlands) presented as candidate for Council member at large. 

 

Members can make additional nominations of IUSSP members for the 2025 Council Elections until 15 July 2025. 

 

Additional nominations must indicate for which position the candidate is running and specify whether they should be placed within the slate of a region or within the slate of nominees at large.

 

Additional nominations must be seconded by at least fifteen current members of the IUSSP of at least five different citizenships and accompanied by the written acceptance and declared citizenship of the nominated member.

 

Please send all nomination materials to the IUSSP Secretariat (contact@iussp.org) in a single email entitled “Election 2025 - Nomination” (followed by the name of the candidate). Support letters can be scanned or attached as Word or PDF files.