IAAP Officers and Board of Directors
Election to the Board of Directors occurs every four years at the start of every International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) and exceptionally during the meeting held during International Congresses of Psychology sponsored by the IUPsyS.
Election to the Board of Directors occurs every four years at the start of every International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) and exceptionally during the meeting held during International Congresses of Psychology sponsored by the IUPsyS.
IAAP Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
President-Elect
Lori Foster
Pedro Neves
Past-President
Treasurer
Christine Roland-Lévy
Kurt Geisinger
Secretary-General
Pedro Altungy
DIVISION PRESIDENTS & PRESIDENTS-ELECT
Work and Organizational Psychology
President
Vincente Martinez-Tur, Spain
President-Elect
Kristina Potocnik, Scotland
Psychological Assessment and Evalutaion
President
Dragos Iliescu, Romania
President-Elect
Paula Elosua, Spain
Psychology and Societal Development
President
Purnima Singh, India
President-Elect
Maria José Baeza Rivera, Chile
Environmental Psychology
President
Sabine Pahl, Austria
President-Elect
Marino Bonaiuto, Italy
Education and School Psychology
President
Katariina Salmela-Aro, Finland
President-Elect
Vítor Alexandre Coelho, Portugal
Clinical and Community Psychology
President
Tim Hannan, Australia
President-Elect
Rocio Fausor, Spain
Applied Gerontology
President
Buxin Han, China
President-Elect
Vacant
Health Psychology
President
Yiqun Gan, China
President-Elect
John de Wit, Netherlands
Economic Psychology
President
Erik Hoelzl, Germany
President-Elect
Edoardo Lozza, Italy
Psychology, Law and Ethics
President
Igor Areh, Slovenia
President-Elect
Anthony Cole, Australia
Political Psychology
President
Ronald Fischer, New Zealand
President-Elect
Vacant
Sport Psychology
President
Montse Ruiz, Finland
President-Elect
Xavier Sanchez, France
Traffic and Transportation Psychology
President
Bryan Porter, United States of America
President-Elect
Henriette Wallén Warner, Sweden
Applied Cognitive Psychology
President
Usha Kiran Subba, Nepal
President-Elect
Parichehr Sharifi, Berlin
Students and Early Career Psychologists
President
Marija Davcheva, Spain
Vice-Presidents
Kerry-aman Kaur Fisher and Jennifer Namutebi
Counseling Psychology
President
Zhijin Hou, China
President-Elect
Lea Ferrari, Italy
Professional Practice
President
Susan McDaniel, United States of America
President-Elect
Timothy Carey, Rwanda
History of Applied Psychology
President
Richard Mababu, Spain
President-Elect
Hugo Klappenbach, Argentina
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Harris Shah Abd Hamid, Malaysia
James Kagaari, Uganda
Ralf Schwarzer, Germany
Wolfgang Beiglboeck, Austria
Erich Kirchler, Austria
Tomoki Sekiguchi, Japan
Saswata Biswas, India
Gosia Kozusznik, Belgium
Tushar Singh, India
Sheyla Blumen, Peru
Judy Kuriansky, USA
Ute Stephan, England
Klaus Boehnke, Germany
Jeremy Lemoine, England
Yanjie Su, China
Serge da Motta Veiga, France
Jacobus Maree, South Africa
Anwarul Hasan Sufi, Bangladesh
Renan de Almeida Sargiani, Brazil
Alexander Newman, Australia
Akira Tsuda, Japan
Annamaria Di Fabio, Italy
Diana Prescott, USA
Richu Wang, China
David Dozois, Canada
Walter Reichman, USA
Kan Zhang, China
Ferdinando Fornara, Italy
Glyn Roberts, Norway
Liqi Zhu, China
Nuria Gamero, Spain
Raymond Saner, Switzerland
Michael Zirkler, Switzerland
Yiqun Gan, China
Giuseppe Scaratti, Italy
HONORARY MEMBERS
Michael Frese, Malaysia (President 2002-2006)
Michael Knowles, Australia (President 2006-2010)
Jose Maria Peiró, Spain (President 2011-2014)
Janel Gauthier, Canada (President 2014-2018)
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