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Council

Governance

Generic meeting imageIAH is registered as a limited company and a charity in the UK. In late 2022, IAH’s Council instigated a review of the Association’s governance model and will update this where needed. The aim of this review is to ensure that the roles and responsibilities of Council members, and of directors and trustees of the company, are clear, so that IAH continues to meet UK regulatory and financial requirements effectively and continues to be best-placed to fulfil its mission and charitable commitments. Updates on the process will be provided in IAH’s News and Information Magazine.

Council

IAH Council members are appointed by the full membership in elections that take place every four years. There are eight Vice Presidents, appointed to provide stewardship of IAH interests in each of the world’s regions; an Executive Committee; and the immediate past President. Council is responsible for IAH’s policies and strategic direction, ensuring that these serve the Association’s charitable objectives, “to advance public education and promote research (and the useful results of such research) in the study and knowledge of hydrogeological science“.

Our current Council team was elected in September 2024.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee has powers delegated by Council for day-to-day management of the Association. The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Secretary General, the Vice President for Finance and Membership (the “Treasurer”), and the Vice President for Science. Members of the Executive Committee are also directors of IAH Ltd, the company registered for the Association in the UK.

Directors and trustees

To comply with UK banking requirements at least half of the directors must now be UK-based. Additional UK-based non-executive directors, former senior  personnel within IAH, have therefore been appointed to IAH Ltd by the Executive Committee and Council.

Advisors to Council

IAH has a small team of “Advisors to Council” representing different parts of the Association. The Advisors are called upon as necessary and do not have any voting rights on Council.

Secretariat

IAH’s officers are supported by a small UK-based Secretariat.

For further information contact info@iah.org.

Council

Dr Teodóra Szőcs

IAH President

Prof. David Kreamer

IAH Past President

Jane Dottridge

Secretary General

Marco Petitta

Vice President, Programme and Science Coordination

Julian Conrad

Vice President, Finance and Membership

Bartolomé Andreo Navarro

Vice President, Western and Central Europe

Luis Camilo Suescún

Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean

Valentina Rakhimova

Vice President, Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Professor A.K. Sinha

Vice President, Asia

Sarah Bourke

Vice President - Australasia and the Pacific

Joanna Doummar

Vice President, Middle East and North Africa

Seifu Kebede Gurmessa

Vice President - Sub Saharan Africa

Grant Ferguson

Vice President, North America

Jared van Rooyen

Representative for Early Career Hydrogeologists

Directors

Dr Teodóra Szőcs

IAH President

Jane Dottridge

Secretary General

Marco Petitta

Vice President, Programme and Science Coordination

Julian Conrad

Vice President, Finance and Membership

John Chilton

Non-Executive Director

Nick Robins

Non-Executive Director

Advisors to Council

Ian Davey

Executive Manager

Dr Cliff Voss

Executive Editor - Hydrogeology Journal