I S K O

General bylaws for regional chapters are available from the About page
Chapters reports at Annual Meeting 2023

Brazil

president: Rita do Carmo Ferreira Laipelt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
vice-president: Célia da Consolação Dias (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte)
secretary: Luciana De Souza Gracioso (Federal University of São Carlos)
treasurer: Rene Faustino Gabriel Junior (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
email: iskobrazil@gmail.com
website: isko.org.br
events

Previous president: José Augusto Guimarães (2009-2011), Vera Dodebei (2012-2015), José Augusto Chaves Guimarães (2016-2017), Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros (2018-2019), Natália Bolfarini Tognoli (2020-2023)

Canada + United States

president: D. Grant Campbell (University of Western Ontario)
treasurers: Vanessa Schlais (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) & Thomas M. Dousa (University of Chicago)
program officer: Carlin Soos (UCLA)
Web content manager: Hilary Thorsen (Stanford University Library)
email: contact@iskocus.org
website: http://iskocus.org
student section at University of British Columbia: iskoubc.wordpress.com/
online payment of membership fees: iskocus.org/membership.html
events

Previous presidents: Kathryn La Barre (2009-2013), Hur-li Lee (2013-2017), Laura Ridenour (2017-2019), Heather Moulaison Sandy (2019-2021), Brian Dobreski (2021-2023).

China, People's Republic

chair: Shujin Cao (Sun Yat-Sen University)
vice-chair: Qing Fang (Whuhan University)
contact person: Yijin Chen
email: iskocn@163.com
website: www.iskocn.net
events

Previous contact persons: Dongmei Bao and Wei Fan (-2019)

France

president: Omar Larouk (ENSSIB)
email: admin@isko-france.asso.fr
website: www.isko-france.asso.fr/
events

Previous presidents: Widad Mustafa El Hadi (1996-2001), Jean-Paul Metzger (2001-2005), Stéphane Chaudiron (2005-2009), Fidelia Ibekwe-San Juan (2009-2011), Amos David (2011-2015), Widad Mustafa El Hadi (2015-2023)

Germany + Austria + Switzerland

chair: Ernesto De Luca (Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig)
vice-chair: Ivo Keller (Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences)
treasurer: Lena-Luise Stahn (Free University of Berlin)
co-opted: Christian Wartena, Peter Ohly
email: deluca@gei.de
website: www.isko-de.org/
events

Previous chairs: Peter Ohly (1998-2009), Karsten Weber (2009-2013), Christian Wartena (2013-2019)

India

president: K. S. Raghavan (PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore)
secretary/contact person: Biswanath Dutta (DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore)
email: ksragav@hotmail.com

Iran

chairperson: Rahmatollah Fattahi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
vice-chair: Mortaza Kokabi (Shadid Chamran University)
secretary: Ebrahim Emrani (Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology)
program Officer: Mahdi Taheri (Islamic Culture and Science Academy)
treasurer: Abdolrasooul Khosravi (Khalij Fars University)
website: www.iskoiran.org

Italy

secretariat: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Luca Giusti (Liguria Digitale)
events: Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia)
email: segreteria@iskoi.org
website: www.iskoi.org
events

Previous contact person: Giliola Negrini (1990s-2003)

Low Countries (Belgium, Netherland and Luxembourg)

chair: Steven Laporte (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
vice chair: Sadia Vancauwenbergh (Hasselt University, Belgium)
secretary: Ronald Siebes (Data Archiving and Network Services - DANS KNAW, Netherlands)
treasurer: Gerard Coen (Data Archiving and Network Services - DANS KNAW, Netherlands)
email: chair@isko-lc.org, info@isko-lc.org
website: http://www.isko-lc.org
events

Maghreb

chairperson: Sahbi Sidhom (University of Lorraine & LORIA Lab., France)
vice-president (Tunisia): Amira Kaddour (ENSTAB University of Carthage, Tunisia)
vice-president (Algeria): Abdelkrim Meziane (CERIST, Algeria)
vice-president (Morocco): Anass el Haddadi (ENSA Al-Hoceima, Morocco)
vice-president (Libya): Nasar Aldian Shashoa (Libyan Academy Tripoli, Libya)
vice-president (Lebanon): Fouad Zmokhol (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Liban)
secretary & treasurer: Sahbi Sidhom (by interim)
email: sahbi.sidhom@loria.fr
website: www.isko-maghreb.org
events

Previous chairperson: Slah Hellara (2010-2011).

Poland

president: Wiesław Babik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
treasurer: Katarzyna Materska (University of Warsaw)
email: w.babik@uj.edu.pl
website: skryba.inib.uj.edu.pl/isko/
events

Spain+Portugal

president: Ana Lúcia Terra (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
vice president: Carmen Agustín Lacruz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
secretary: Carlos Guardado da Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
treasurer: María Olivera Zaldua (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
email: anaterra@fl.uc.pt
website: www.iskoiberico.org
events

Previous presidents: Emilia Currás, María López-Huertas, Rosa San Segundo Manuel (-2015), Isidoro Gil Leiva (2015-2019).

United Kingdom

chair: Sylvie Davies
vice chair: Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague)
secretary: Tanja Svarre (Aalborg University, Denmark)
treasurer: Duncan McKay
email: chair@iskouk.org, secretary@iskouk.org, treasurer@iskouk.org
website: www.iskouk.org/
events

Previous chairpersons: Vanda Broughton (-2011), Stella Dextre Clarke (2011-2015), Judi Vernau (2015-2017), David Haynes (2017-2021).

West Africa

president: Victor Odumuyiwa (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
vice-president: Emmanuel Dada (University of Jos, Nigeria)
secretary: Fleur Nadine Ndjock (University of Yaoundé 2, Cameroon)
treasurer: Chika Yinka-Banjo (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
email: vodumuyiwa@unilag.edu.ng, educatice77@gmail.com, chikagog@gmail.com
website: iskowa.org/home

Previous presidents: Olufade Williams Onifade (2017-2019).

other local contacts

Australia: Matt Moore
Hungary: Ágnes Hajdu Barát
Georgia: Irakli Garibashvili
Northern Europe: Birger Hjørland
Russia: Andrei I. Kapterev
Slovakia: Jela Steinerova

Interested people and members from other countries should directly refer to the international Secretariat