ISSBD’s success is mainly due to its active members and its incredibly hard-working executives. For more information on everyone involved for the society, please see the following sections below.
Steering Committee
President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Secretary General
Luc Goossens
KU Leuven
Treasurer
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Griffith University, School of Applied Psychology & Centre for Mental Health
Membership Secretary
Julie Bowker
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA
Executive Committee
President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Secretary General
Luc Goossens
KU Leuven
Treasurer
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Griffith University, School of Applied Psychology & Centre for Mental Health
Membership Secretary
Julie Bowker
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA
Member
Antonella Marchetti
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Member
Liqui Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Member
Rita Zukauskiene
Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Member
Kristine Ajrouch
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Amina Abubakar
Aga Khan University, Kenya
Member
Manuela Verissimo
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal
Member
Marc Bornstein
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD USA
Institute for Fiscal Sudies, London, UK
ECD Parenting Programmes, UNICEF, NYC, USA
Member
Silvia Koller
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Member
Frosso Motti
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Member
Toni Antonnuci
University of Michigan, USA
Early Career Scholar Representative 2018 - 2024
Given Hapunda
University of Zambia, Zambia
Early Career Scholar Representative 2020 - 2024
Cinzia Di Dio
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Membership Committee
The membership committee works with the Membership Secretary on membership recruitment strategies, including reaching better coverage of the lifespan; greater diversity of fields; improved recruitment of human development scholars beyond the US, Canada, and Europe, while retaining these traditional members; and more young scholars. This committee also works with the Membership Secretary to develop policy about membership fees.
Chair (2020-present)
Astrid Poorthuis
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Member (2021-present)
Ann Sanson
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Early career scholar (2021-present)
Cinzia Di Dio
Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy
Member (2008-present)
Guillherme Wendt
Department of Medical Sciences, Western Paraná State University, Brazil
Member (2022-present)
Ken Rubin
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, United States of America
Member (2021-present)
Pamela Wadende
Department of Educational Psychology, Kisii University, Kenya
Member (2021-present)
Yue Song - early career scholar
Department of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, China
Ex-officio: Membership Secretary
Julie Bowker
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, United States of America
Ex-officio: President
Tina Malti
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada
Ex-officio
Livia Melandri
SAGE Publications, United Kingdom
Finance Committee
This committee works with the Treasurer to review investments and develop investment policy; and provide advice on D&O insurance, US non-profit filings (form 990), and financial transactions and institutions. It also reviews the budget as proposed and recommends actions to the EC.
Chair
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Griffith University, School of Applied Psychology & Centre for Mental Health
Member
Brett Laursen
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Member
Nancy Galambos
University of Alberta, CAN
Member
Kristine Ajrouch
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Rick Burdick
Ex-Officio:President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Nominations Committee
This committee develops the slate of nominees for elections.
President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Secretary General
Luc Goossens
KU Leuven
Treasurer
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Griffith University, School of Applied Psychology & Centre for Mental Health
Membership Secretary
Julie Bowker
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA
Awards Committee
This committee solicits nominations for ISSBD awards and ISSBD Fellows awards, reviews the submissions, and selects the awardees to be announced at the biennial meeting.
Chair
Silvia Koller
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Member
Gail Ferguson
University of Minnesota, USA
Member
Marta Fulop
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Member
Maria Clara de Paula Couto
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Member
Linda Theron
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Member
Barry Schneider
Boston College, USA
Publications Committee
The Publications Committee oversees all ISSBD publications including IJBD, the ISSBD Bulletin, and web content. In addition, the Publications Committee recommends to the Executive Committee any changes in policy (including budgets) affecting publications. Finally, they periodically consider whether ISSBD should be engaging additional publication/communication approaches.
Co-Chair
Denis Gerstorf
Humboldt University, Germany
Co-Chair
Noah Webster
University of Michigan, United States
Member
Liane Peña Alampay
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Member
Maayan Davidov
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Member
Jutta Heckhausen
University of California, Irvine, United States
Member
Silvia Koller
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Member
Federico Manzi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Member
Pamela Wadende
Kisii University, Kenya
Ex-officio: ISSBD Newsletter Editor
Josafá da Cunha
Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Ex-officio: IJBD Incoming Editor
Jennifer Lansford
Duke University, USA
Ex-officio: IJBD Current Editor
Brett Laursen
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Ex-officio: President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Ex-officio: ISSBD Bulletin Co-editor
Deepali Sharma
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Ex-officio: ISSBD Bulletin Co-editor
Karina Weichold
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Early Career Scholars Committee
ISSBD runs the Early Career Scholars (ECS) programme for its membership in their early career stage. ISSBD defines an ECS as scholar of human development who is either working towards a PhD or whose PhD has been awarded less than 7 years ago. Thus, most early career scholars are in the early stage of their careers with a hunger for professional development.
This committee is responsible for soliciting, assessing, and allocating travel grants and pre-conference workshop opportunities for early career scholars.
Chair
Julie Bowker
University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA
Member
Esther Akinsola
University of Lagos, Nigera
Member
Toni Antonucci
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Nancy Galambos
University of Alberta, CAN
Member
Anne Petersen
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Suman Verma
Panjab University, India
Member
Angela Chow
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Global Social Policy Committee
Chair
Ingrid Schoon
University College London, Institute of Education (UK)
Member
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Member
Valentine Banfegha Ngalim
University of Bamenda
Member
Geertjan Overbeek
University of Amsterdam
Communications Committee
The ISSBD Communications Committee aims to ensure that the communication platforms of ISSBD reflect its commitment to international, diverse, and inclusive research on lifespan development, connecting researchers globally, and democratizing the production and communication of scholarly research.
Chair
Josafá Da Cunha
Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Member
Pamela Wadende
Kisii University, Kenya
Member
Dawn E. England
University of Birmingham Dubai
Member
Bin-bin Chen
Fudan University, China
Member
Guilherme Welter Wendt
Western Paraná State University, Brazil
Member
Cinzia Di Dio
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Ex-officio: President
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Optimizing Capacity Committee
This committee capitalizes on ISSBD’s investments in optimizing global capacity.
Chair
Tina Malti
University of Toronto
Member
Toni Antonucci
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Anne Petersen
University of Michigan, USA
Member
Godfrey Ejuu
Kyambogo University Uganda-East Africa
ISSBD Staff
These are ISSBD staff employed to support the society in membership and communication.
Membership Manager
Karen Castillo
Communications Manager
Patrick Njoroge
Webmaster
Jan Boom
Regional Workshop Committee
This committee organizes and oversees ISSBD’s regional workshops.