IFLA - Key Persons


Agneta-Elisabeta Lovasz

Job Titles:
  • Romania Director

Alejandro Lorenzo César Santa

Job Titles:
  • Argentina General Coordinating Director

Amanda Wakaruk

Job Titles:
  • Canada Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian / University of Alberta Email

Ana Stevanovic

Job Titles:
  • Serbia Librarian / National Library

Argentina General Coordinating

Job Titles:
  • Argentina General Coordinating Director

Barbara Stratton

Job Titles:
  • United Kingdom Co - Chair

Beth T. Kilmarx

Job Titles:
  • United States of America Director

Branka Badovinac - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman, Permanent UNIMARC Committee / IZUM - Institute of Information Science
  • Chairman, Web Page Editor ) ( Institute of Information Science - IZUM, Slovenia ) ( 2021 - 2025 )
  • Slovenia Chair / Institute of Information Science

Christina de Castell

Job Titles:
  • Canada Chief Librarian & CEO / Vancouver Public Library
  • Expert Advisor

Christine Oliver

Job Titles:
  • Canada Head, Resource Description and Metadata Services / University of Ottawa Email
  • Expert Advisor

Deanna White

Job Titles:
  • France Deputy Head of the Periodicals, Legal Deposit Department

Denise Nicholson

Job Titles:
  • Expert Advisor
  • South Africa Founder

Dilara Begum

Job Titles:
  • Bangladesh Librarian ( Acting ) and Associate Professor / East West University
  • Member - at - Large

Elida Ofelia Kraemer

Job Titles:
  • Argentina Professor De Catalogación

France Metadata

Job Titles:
  • France Metadata Librarian

Georgia Leading

Job Titles:
  • Georgia Leading Specialist of the Public Relations and Cultural Programs Division, Curator of the Anglo - American Reading Hall

Héloïse Lecomte

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Ibrahim Farah

Job Titles:
  • Lebanon Public Services Head Librarian / University of Balamand Email

Jaap Naber - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of Finance and Risk Committee
  • Treasurer
  • Netherlands Business Controller
  • Treasurer and Chair of the FRC )

James G. Neal

Job Titles:
  • United States University Librarian Emeritus / Columbia University

Jennifer Wright

Job Titles:
  • United Kingdom Chief Metadata Officer / Bibliographic Data Services Limited

Jonathan Hernández Pérez - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman FAIFE Committee ( Ex Officio Member )
  • Mexico Researcher / Library and Information

Joseph Hafner

Job Titles:
  • Canada Associate Dean, Collection Services / McGill University Library

Kirsten Boelt

Job Titles:
  • Denmark Library Director

Lei Wang

Job Titles:
  • China Deputy Director

Leslie Weir

Job Titles:
  • President - Elect
  • Canada Librarian and Archivist of Canada / Library and

Lindy Nhlapo

Job Titles:
  • Manager of the IFLA Regional Office for Africa
  • South Africa Manager

Loida Garcia-Febo

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Management of Library Associations Section
  • United States of America International Library Consultant

Maia Simonishvili

Job Titles:
  • Georgia Leading Specialist of the Public Relations and Cultural Programs Division, Curator of the Anglo - American Reading Hall

Maja Žumer

Job Titles:
  • Expert Advisor
  • Slovenia Professor of Information Science / University of Ljubljana

Marcel de Ruiter

Job Titles:
  • Member With Experience of Dutch Law and Audit Practices )

Mariann Schjeide

Job Titles:
  • Norway Library Manager / Volda University College

Mary Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice
Mary Robinson is Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice in Trinity College Dublin and Chair of The Elders. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama. Between 2013 and 2016, Mary served as the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change leading up to the Paris Agreement and in 2016 as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. Her Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, established in 2010, came to a planned end in April 2019. A former President of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was President and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative from 2002-2010 and served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. She was Chancellor of the University of Dublin from 1998 to 2019. Mary Robinson now serves as Patron of the International Science Council and Patron of the Board of the Institute of Human Rights and Business, is an Ambassador for The B Team, in addition to being a board member of several organisations including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Aurora Foundation. Recently she became joint Honorary President of the Africa Europe Foundation. Mary's memoir, ‘Everybody Matters' was published in September 2012 and her book, ‘Climate Justice - Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future' was published in September 2018. She is also co-host of a podcast on the climate crisis, called ‘Mothers of Invention'.

Matthew Lambert

Job Titles:
  • United Kingdom Head of Copyright Policy & Assurance / the British Library

Melissa Levine - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman CLM Committee ( Ex Officio Member )

Michelle Lau

Job Titles:
  • Manager of the IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania
  • Singapore Deputy Director

Miguel Mimoso Correia

Job Titles:
  • Web Page Editor

Mikael Wetterstrom

Job Titles:
  • France Metadata Librarian

Mirjam Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
  • Netherlands Manager, Metadata Operations

Mélanie Roche

Job Titles:
  • France Head of Applied Models

Nthabiseng Kotsokoane

Job Titles:
  • South Africa Assistant Director / University of Free State Email

Pat Riva

Job Titles:
  • Canada Associate University Librarian, Collection Services / Concordia University

Pekka Heikkinen

Job Titles:
  • Finland Senior Legal Adviser / National Library

Peng Xiao

Job Titles:
  • China Associate Professor / School of Information Management

Renate Behrens

Job Titles:
  • Germany Chair, RDA Steering Committee and Information Science

Saeedeh Akbari-Daryan

Job Titles:
  • Iran Deputy Assistant, Research Department / National Library
  • National Library and Archives of Iran, Iran ) ( 2021 - 2025 )

Sara Benson

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Delegation to WIPO SCCR

Sarah Powell

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
  • Australia Copyright Law & Policy Adviser

Sharon Dyas-Correia

Job Titles:
  • United Kingdom Head of Collections and Resource Description

Silvia Stasselová

Job Titles:
  • Member - at - Large
  • Slovakia Director General

Stuart Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Ireland Head, Libraries Development / Local Government Management Agency
  • Member - at - Large

Susan Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Expert Advisor
  • Ireland Director

Taufiq Gani

Job Titles:
  • Indonesia Director of Data / National Library

Te Paea Paringatai

Job Titles:
  • New Zealand Portfolio Director

Thanos Giannakopoulos

Job Titles:
  • United Nations Chief Librarian

Tom Lipinski

Job Titles:
  • Expert Advisor

Vicki McDonald - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of Finance and Risk Committee
  • President
  • Australia State Librarian and Chief Executive Officer

Victoria Owen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Zafar Khan

Job Titles:
  • United Arab Emirates Learning Resources Manager / Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University