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iasia board of management

The IASIA Board of Management comprises the IASIA President, Immediate Past President, and representatives of each of its seven regions (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and the Middle East. Their number can vary up to 25 members, determined by the members' quotas per region. Additionally, the IIAS President, IIAS Director General, and the ICAPA Accreditation Committee Chairperson are also members of the Board of Management as ex-offices. A General Meeting of the Association is convened in association with the Annual Conference.

Since 1961, the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), the specialized entity of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), has been an association of organizations and individuals whose activities and interests focus on the education and training of public administrators and managers committed to improving Administrative Sciences around the world by promoting good governance and supporting the pursuit of modern and accountable public administration that joint to ICAPA continues contributing to the improvement of quality of education and training in our field that today more than ever, it confirms its international dimension.

Influence the global governance  agenda through high-impact events targeting and involving both public service  and academe; production and dissemination of relevant knowledge on public  governance; enabling collaborative and strategic projects with members and  partners; and accrediting both academic and professional training programs in  line with standards of best practices in public management.

At the IASIA 2022 Conference, in Morocco for the first time, under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, we resumed our on-site academic activities, Implementing and Promoting Effective Governance Principles to Leave No One, No Place Behind, with the support of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa), and the African Local Governments Academy (ALGA) in partnership with the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences - Agdal of Mohammed V de Rabat. In general, as a result of the multiple sessions of our ten Working Groups, Ph.D. seminar, panels, workshops, and plenary sessions,  we concluded we need to share best practices and experiences for managing global challenges, human capital development, and training civil servants to enhance their competencies and capacities, a responsible and committed public administration with a looking forward vision,  strengthen the participation and engagement of citizens, reduce inequalities, and provide good services to all, especially aging persons and those with vulnerabilities.

As the newly elected IASIA President, with a new Board of Management for the next three years period, I reaffirm our mission and pledge to jointly work to be a key player in setting the governance agenda worldwide to serve citizens better and meet their needs and expectations, co-creating and being resilient, benevolent, and empathetic with determination, goodwill, and within a spirit of collaboration, transparency, loyalty, ethics, and values, and with a great desire to achieve things together, relying on our collective intelligence, and having a deep feeling that we are doing our part as a strong team and family.

I invite members, partners, civil servants, governments, and collectivity to continue building the IASIA for the next six decades.


Dr. Najat Zarrouk

IASIA President

President

DR. NAJAT ZARROUK, IASIA PRESIDENT, MOROCCO

President, past president and Members per region


Names
Institution
Country
Position
Najat Zarrouk

African Local Governments Academy (ALGA) of the United Cities 
and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-Africa)

Morocco
IASIA President
DONG Qing
Chinese National Academy of Governance, China, 
China
IASIA Immediate Past President


africa region members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Liezel Lues

University of the Free State

South Africa

IASIA Vice-President for Africa Region and ICAPA Steering Committee member

Liza C. Van J Jaarsveldt

University of South Africa (UNISA)

South Africa

IASIA Functional Vice president for Programme

Nura Mohmed

Kenya School of Government

Kenya

IASIA Member for Africa

Natasja Holtzhausen

University of Pretoria

South Africa

IASIA Member for Africa Region and IDEAL Standing Committee Chairperson

asia region members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

WANG Manchuan

China Society of Administrative Reform (CSOAR)

China

IASIA Vice-President for Asia Region

Alex Jr. Brillantes

Development Academy of the Philippines. Graduate School of Public and Development Management (GSPDM)

The Philippines

IASIA Member for Asia and ICAPA Steering Committee member

Ni Zheng

Sichuan Administration Institute (SAI)

China

IASIA Member for Asia Region

Liu Hong-Cheng

Taiwan Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs (TASPAA)

China

IASIA Member for Asia Region

Amitava Basu

Center for Environmental Management & Participatory Development

India

IASIA Member for Asia Region

australasia

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Vacancy

Europe region members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Eglė Vaidelyté

Kaunas University of Technology

Lithuania

IASIA Vice-President for Europe

Michiel De Vries

Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

The Netherlands

IASIA Functional Vice president for Publications

Bardhyl Dobra

Kosovo Institute for Public Administration (KIPA)

Republic of Kosovo

IASIA Functional Vice president for Regional and International Cooperation

João Salis Gomes

"ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute"

Portugal

IASIA Member for Europe and ICAPA Steering Committee Chairperson

Teresa Siles Suarez

Instituto Nacional de Administracion Publica (INAP)

Spain

IASIA Member for Europe

Latin america and the caribbean members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Edgar Varela Barrios

Universidad del Valle

Colombia

IASIA Member for Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Leonardo Castellón

Universidad de Costa Rica

Costa Rica

IASIA Member for Latin America and the Caribbean Region

middle east region members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Mousa Abu Zaid

General Personnel Council (GPC)

State of Palestine

IASIA Vice-President for the Middle East Region and IDEAL Standing Committee member

Hamid Ali E.

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Qatar

IASIA Member for the Middle East and ICAPA Steering Committee member

Mohammad AL-BAKHITI

Institute of Public Administration

Saudi Arabia

IASIA Member for the Middle East

north america region members

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Adrián Velázquez Vázquez

University LaVerne

United States of America

IASIA Vice-President for North America Region

Blue Wooldridge

Virginia Commonwealth University

United States of America

IASIA Member for North America Region Region and IDEAL Standing Committee member

Tim A. Mau

University of Guelph

Canada

IASIA Member for North America Region Region and ICAPA Steering Committee member

ex offices

Names

Institution

Country

Position

Ra'ed Benshams

Bahrain Institute of Public Administration

Kingdom of Bahrain

IIAS President

Sofiane Sahraoui

IIAS

Tunis

IIAS Director General

Cesar Rojas Alfonzo

IIAS-IISA

Brazil

IASIA&LAGPA Executive Secretary

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