Elections for the 2026-2029 Council and the 2029 Committee on Nominations Elections for IUSSP Officers and Council members for 2026-2029 as well as members of the 2029 Committee on Nominations will take place from 15 September to 27 October 2025. The ballot will also include a vote to elect the outgoing IUSSP President, Shireen Jejeebhoy, as Honorary President. IUSSP election procedures The electoral list comprises all the members who were up to date on 15 August 2025 (including members in grace). - Elections will be held via the Internet, using a secure external online voting company (AssociationVoting). Eligible members will receive an email to access the ballot and vote.
- The electoral procedure will be controlled by an Election Committee composed of three IUSSP members: Ankit Sikarwar (India), Jenny Garcia (France / Bolivia) and Adrien Remund (Switzerland).
- The rules governing IUSSP elections can be found in the IUSSP Constitution (article 10 and by-law 2).
Election of the 2026-2029 Council The Committee on Nominations nominated 2 candidates for each position on Council, including the two officer positions: the Vice President and the Secretary General and Treasurer. In the IUSSP Constitution, the Vice President succeeds to the President, who is therefore not elected directly (read the Committee on Nominations’ report). Members were invited to nominate additional candidates for Council and one member was proposed by the members.
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 & 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 &
the Caribbean
(1 seat, two nominees) | Georgina Binstock [Argentina]
CONICET & CENEP (Argentina) | Ignacio Pardo [Uruguay]
Universidad de La República (Uruguay) | Council member
for Northern 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.
Election of the 2029 Committee on Nominations The role of the 2029 Committee on Nominations is to proposes candidates for the 2030-2033 Council. Since the new Constitution approved in 2017, the Committee on Nominations is now elected by IUSSP members (except for its chair, who is the outgoing President). A list of candidates has been selected by the Council for the members to choose from. Members will select one candidate per region. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes in each region shall be declared elected. Candidates for the 2029 Committee on Nominations:
AFRICA ASIA & OCEANIA EUROPE LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN NORTHERN AMERICA – Click on the candidates' names to access their member profile. | 