Officers & Council

President (-2027)

Catherine Reeb
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France 

creeb.iab at gmail.com

1st Vice President (-2025)

Juan Carlos Villarreal
Université Laval
Quebec, Canada

juan-carlos.villarreal-aguilar at bio.ulaval.ca

2nd Vice President (-2027)

Chris Cargill
Australian National Herbarium, Australia

chris.cargill at awe.gov.au

Secretary Treasurer (-2025)

Matt von Konrat
Field Museum
Chicago, USA

mkonrat at fieldmuseum.org

Last President

Bernard Goffinet
University of Connecticut

Storrs, USA

bernard.goffinet at uconn.edu

Editor of Bryophyte
Diversity and Evolution (2025)

Michael Stech
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

michael.stech at naturalis.nl

Council Member (-2025)

Jessica Budke
University of Tennessee, USA

jbudke@utk.edu

Council Member (-2027)

Silvia Pressel
Natural History Museum London

s.pressel at nhm.ac.uk

Council Member (-2025)

Andrew Franks
Queensland Herbarium, Australia

andrew.franks at des.qld.gov.au

Council Member (-2025)

Itambo Malombe
East African herbarium
National Museums of Kenya, Kenya

malombe2030 at yahoo.com

Council Member (-2025)

Mereia Tabua
South Pacific Regional Herbarium, Fiji

mereia.tabua at gmail.com

Council Member (-2027)

Juan Larrain
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile

musgoschiloe at gmail.com

Council Member (-2027)

Lars Söderström
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway 

lars.soderstrom at ntnu.no

Council Member (-2027)

Masaki Shimamura
Hiroshima University, Japan

mshima at hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Council Member (-2027)

Ho Boon Chuan
Singapore Botanic Gardens, National Parks Board
Singapore

HO_Boon_Chuan at nparks.gov.sg

Editor of The Bryological Times (-2026)

Mereia Tabua
South Pacific Regional Herbarium, Fiji

mereia.tabua at gmail.com