Officers and Board of Directors

IRES Officers

IRES officers are elected by the Board of Directors. The webmaster is appointed by the Board.

President 2023
Steven Williams
ARES

Past President
Francois Viruly
AfRES

Associate Executive Director
Kimberly Winson-Geideman
ARES

Treasurer
Jeffrey Robert
ARES

President elect 2024
Velma Zahirovic-Herbert
ARES

Executive Director
Karen M. Gibler
ARES

Secretary
Deborah Leshinsky
PRRES

Webmaster
Paloma Taltavull
ERES

IRES Directors

Each member society selects three people to serve on the Board of Directors along with the officers and two industry members selected by the Board.

Aly Karam, AfRES
Kunle Awolaja, AfRES
Kola Akinsomi, AfRES
Desmond Tsang, AsRES
Kwan Ok Lee AsRES
Kazuto Sumita, AsRES
James Young, ARES
Meagan McCollum, ARES
Dustin Read, ARES

Eamonn D’Arcy, ERES
Martin Hoesli, ERES
Ramón Sotelo, ERES
Dulani Halvitgala, PRRES
Graham Squires, PRRES
Neville Hurst, PRRES
Claudio Alencar, LARES
Eliane Monetti, LARES
Alessandro Vedrossi, LARES Patrick Katabua, Industry Henry Chin, Industry

Steven Williams, President Francois Viruly, Past President Joseph Ooi, Past President Deborah Leshinsky, Secretary
Jeff Robert, Treasurer
Karen Gibler, Executive Director Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, President-Elect Kimberly Winson-Geideman, Associate Executive Director