🏅 Call for Applications for the 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. 🏅

Founded in 1947, in 2022 AIBS celebrates its 75th anniversary

Leadership is our rock

Leaders are our foundation and help chart our course...

The view from Glacier Point in Yosemite Valley, California, United States. Credit: David Iliff *

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Who We Are

Our Leadership

Our non-profit association is made up of 103 societies and organization members that individually and collectivity advance the biological sciences.

To lead the way, we rely on talented and experienced people in management, advisory, and director roles.

Board of Directors

In accordance with our Constitution and Bylaws, AIBS is governed by a board of directors that is elected each year. (We also have an ethics policy which governs our actions.)

Key

  1. Member of the Executive Committee
  2. Board Executive Committee Representative
  3. Committee Chair
  4. Ex-officio

Officers

President, 2023-2024
Judy Skog1
George Mason University

Vice President, 2024-2025
Eric S. Nagy1
University of Virginia

Secretary, 2022-2024
Pamela Soltis1
American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Treasurer, 2022-2024
Betsy Myers1
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Retired)

Board Members Elected by the Board

Gabriela Chavarria, 2022-2024
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, Seattle

Todd Crowl, 2022-2024
Florida International University

Richard Nakamura, 2023-2025
National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health (Retired)

Clifton Poodry, 2022-2024
University of Oregon

Muriel Poston, 2022-2024
Pitzer College

Veronica Segarra, 2023-2025
Goucher College

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, 2023-2025
Intersections Science, Business, Diversity Consulting

Board Members Elected by the AIBS Council of Member Societies and Organizations

John Bates2, 2023-2025
American Society of Mammalogy

Raymond Mejia, 2023-2025
Society for Mathematical Biology

Susan Perkins, 2022-2024
American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Krissa Skogen, 2023-2025
Botanical Society of America

Michael Willig, 2023-2025
University of Connecticut

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Committees

Our current leadership committees include the Diversity Committee, Education Committee, Finance Committee, Leadership Development Task Committee, Personnel Committee, Public Policy Review Committee, Publications Committee, and the Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development Committee.

Diversity Committee

DaJoie Croslan3, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Gabriela Chavarria, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, Seattle

Richard Nakamura, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health (Retired)

Jyotsna Pandey, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Susan Perkins, The City College of New York

Steward T. A. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Clifton Poodry, University of Oregon

Veronica Segarra, Goucher College

Krissa Skogen, Clemson University

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Intersections Science, Business, Diversity Consulting

Education Committee

Raymond Mejia3, Society for Mathematical Biology; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institutes of Health (Retired)

Todd Crowl, Florida International University

Clifton Poodry, University of Oregon

Muriel Poston, Pitzer College

Krissa Skogen, Chicago Botanic Garden

Michael Willig, University of Connecticut

Jyotsna Pandey4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Finance Committee

Betsy Myers3, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Retired)

Todd Crowl, Florida International University

John Burris, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Eric Nagy, University of Virginia

Susan Perkins, The City College of New York

Scott Glisson4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Leadership Development Task Committee

Clifton Poodry3, University of Oregon

John Bates, Field Museum of Natural History

Eric Nagy, University of Virginia

Richard Nakamura, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health (Retired)

Susan Perkins, The City College of New York

Pamela S Soltis, University of Florida

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Intersections Science, Business, Diversity Consulting

Scott Glisson4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Personnel Committee

Krissa Skogen3, Clemson University

Pamela S Soltis, University of Florida

Michael Willig, University of Connecticut

Public Policy Review Committee

Carol Baldwin, Smithsonian Institution

Todd Crowl, Association of Ecosystem Research Centers

Paul Foster, Organization of Biological Field Stations

Thomas Sanger, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Al Savitzky, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Jyotsna Pandey4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Publications Committee

Gabriela Chavarria3, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, Seattle

Jannette Boughman, Michigan State University

Pamela Diggle, University of Connecticut

Raymond Mejia, NIH, Retired

Allen Moore, University of Georgia

Michael Willig, University of Connecticut

Charles Fenster4, Editor-in-Chief, BioScience

James Verdier4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development Committee

Richard Nakamura3, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health (Retired)

Eric Nagy, University of Virginia

Muriel Poston, Pitzer College

Veronica Segarra, Goucher College

Judy Skog, George Mason University

Michael Willig, University of Connecticut

Scott Glisson4, American Institute of Biological Sciences

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