Officers
Election process
The members of the Executive Council serve the WAC in formulating policy and in facilitating communication among the members. Any member of the WAC is eligible to serve on the Executive Council. Elections are held during the WAC business meeting at the triennial International Conferences on Copepoda (ICOC). It is not necessary for the candidates to be personally present at the ICOC, but it has traditionally been the case that candidates
commit, as far as possible, to participate in ICOCs during their periods in office. Normally all the officers (President, Vice-President, General Secretary, and Treasurer) and several of
the Council Members stand for election or re-election at each business meeting. A new election will take place during the upcoming International Conference on Copepoda. Details on the nomination
process will be given when appropriate.
Executive Council of the WAC
2024–2027
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT (Job Description)
Rony Huys
Natural History Museum, London
U.K.
President@monoculus.org
PAST-PRESIDENT
Hans G. Dam
University of Connecticut
U.S.A.
hans.dam@uconn.edu
VICE-PRESIDENT
Tiziana Di Lorenzo
Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems of the National Research Council, Firenze
Italy
tiziana.dilorenzo@cnr.it
GENERAL SECRETARY
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial
BIOS - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Bermuda
Secretary@monoculus.org
TREASURER (Job Description)
T. Chad Walter
Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center
U.S.A.
Treasurer@monoculus.org
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Alexandra Savchenko
Moscow State University
Russia
as.savchenko1@gmail.com
James P. Bernot
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
U.S.A.
bernotj@si.edu
Iole Di Capua
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
Italy
iole.dicapua@szn.it
Kaori Wakabayashi
Hiroshima University
Japan
kaoriw@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Serdar Sönmez
Adıyaman Üniversitesi, Adıyaman
Türkiye
sonmezserdar@gmail.com
Marvin Choquet
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Norway
marvin.choquet@nhm.uio.no
LOCAL SECRETARY
Iole Di Capua
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples
Italy
iole.dicapua@szn.it
Appointed Positions
WEBMASTER
Viola Siegler
Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
Germany
viola.siegler@senckenberg.de
AUDITORS
TBA
Past Officers
FOUNDER PRESIDENT
Zbigniew Kabata: 1984-1987
PRESIDENT
Hans G. Dam: 2022-2024
Diana M.P. Galassi: 2017-2022
Eduardo Suárez-Morales: 2014-2017
Rony Huys: 2011-2014
Janet Bradford-Grieve: 2008-2011
Shin-ichi Uye: 2005-2008
Horst Kurt Schminke: 2002-2005
Geoffrey A. Boxshall: 1999-2002
Ju-shey Ho: 1996-1999
Gustav-Adolph Paffenhöfer: 1993-1996
Arthur Humes: 1990-1993
Jan Stock: 1987-1990
PAST-PRESIDENT
Diana M.P. Galassi: 2022-2024
Eduardo Suárez-Morales: 2017-2022
Rony Huys: 2014-2017
Janet Bradford-Grieve: 2011-2014
Shin-ichi Uye: 2008-2011
Horst Kurt Schminke: 2005-2008
Geoffrey A. Boxshall: 2002-2005
VICE-PRESIDENT
Mark Ohman: 2022-2024
Julianne Kalman Passarelli: 2017-2022
Diana M.P. Galassi: 2014-2017
Jiang-Shiou Hwang: 2011-2014
Rony Huys: 2008-2011
Jefferson Turner: 2005-2008
Shin-ichi Uye: 2002-2005
Janet W. Reid: 1999-2002
Adriana Ianora: 1996-1999
Ju-shey Ho: 1993-1996
Geoffrey A. Boxshall: 1990-1993
John J.B. Wells: 1987-1990
GENERAL SECRETARY
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial: 2022-present
Hans G. Dam: 2014-2022
Eduardo Suárez-Morales: 1996-2014
Janet Reid: 1993-1996
Chris Corkett: 1987-1993
TREASURER
T. Chad Walter: 2008-present
John Fornshell: 1996-2008
Gerd Schriever: 1987-1996
EDITOR OF MONOCULUS NEWSLETTER
Janet W. Reid: 2002-2011
Hans Dahms: 1993-2002
Horst Kurt Schminke: 1980-1993
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Iole Di Capua: 2022-present
James P. Bernot: 2022-present
Alexandra Savchenko: 2022-present
Atsushi Yamaguchi: 2022-2024
Rony Huys: 2022-2024
Grace Wyngaard: 2017-2022, 2022-2024
Nancy F. Mercado-Salas: 2017-2022
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial: 2017-2022
Susumu Ohtsuka: 2017-2022
Daisuke Uyeno: 2014-2017, 2017-2022
Ho Young Soh: 2014-2017, 2017-2022
Kanghyun Lee: 2014-2017
Samuel Gómez: 2011-2014, 2014-2017
Anton Brancelj: 2011-2014, 2014-2017
Danny Tang: 2011-2014, 2014-2017
Susan M. Dippenaar: 2011-2014, 2014-2017
James Bron: 2011-2014
La-orsri Sanoamuang: 2008-2011
Victor Alekseev: 2008-2011
Sami Souissi: 2005-2008
Mark Ohman: 2005-2008
Gael Dur: 2005-2008
Janet Bradford-Grieve: 2005-2008
Jiang-Shiou Hwang: 2002-2005, 2005-2008
Jefferson Turner: 2002-2005
Rony Huys: 1996-2002
Rubens Lopes: 1999-2005
Susumu Ohtsuka: 1999-2002
Grace Wyngaard: 1996-2002
Shuhei Nishida: 1996-1999
Ruth Böttger-Schnack: 1993-1996, 1996-1999
Frank Ferrari: 1990-1993, 1993-1996
Jack Greenwood: 1990-1993, 1993-1996
Shin-ichi Uye: 1990-1993, 1993-1996
Chang-tai Shih: 1987-1990
Horst Kurt Schminke: 1987-1990
Ju-shey Ho: 1987-1990, 1990-1993
Moshe Gophen: 1987-1990
WEBMASTER
Julianne Kalman Passarelli: 2022-2024
Pedro Martínez-Arbizu: 2011-2022
Rubens M. Lopes: 2002-2009