WAAS Elections 2025
The WAAS elections of 2025 resulted in the election of 3 new Trustees, 17 Fellows and 3 Junior Fellows. Seven Trustees were re-elected and 2 Junior Fellows were elected as Associated Fellows. Congratulations to the new and returning members below.
Trustees
RE-ELECTED
Jonathan Granoff / President, Global Security Institute
NEW
Türker Kılıç / Dean, School of Medicine, İstinye University, Istanbul
NEW/TREASURER
Jonathan Miller / CEO, Integrated Media Co.
RE-ELECTED
Nebojša Nešković / WAAS Vice President (Science & Technology)
NEW
Joanna Nurse / Chair, Arts and Planetary Leadership Working Group
RE-ELECTED
Ketan Patel / Co-Founder, Force For Good and Greater Pacific Capital
RE-ELECTED
Janani Ramanathan / WAAS Secretary General
RE-ELECTED
Aleksander Zidanšek / Professor of Physics, Jozef Stefan School
RE-ELECTED
Moneef Zou’bi / Science Advisor of the InterAction Council
RE-ELECTED
Alberto Zucconi / President, Person Centered Approach Institute
Fellows
Bertie Ahern / Former Prime Minister of Ireland and Co-Chairof the InterAction Council
Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi / Former UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment
Carol Carter / Founder and CEO, GlobalMinded; Founder, LifeBound
Ren Itoe / Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Sakana AI
Amine Jaouadi / Professor of Physics and AI, ECE Paris Engineering School
Ioannis Liritzis / Professor, Henan University; Vice President, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Elena Mustakova / Social scientist, IntegraLight Transdisciplinary Institute for Consciousness
Denis Naughten / Former Minister for Communications, Climate Action & Environment, Ireland
Francis Martin O’Donnell / President of the Genealogical Society of Ireland
Fotini Pomoni-Papaioannou / Professor, Geology and Geoenvironment, National Kapodistrian University of Athens
Lejla Gurbeta Pokvić / Director, Verlab Institute, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gabriele Rizzo / Executive Partner at Longviews; UNESCO Chair-elect for Positive Futures
Natalia Rojcovscaia-Tumaha / Composer, pianist, conductor, President, Culture & Art Creators Guild
Sabu Thomas / Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Ludvik Toplak / President, Alma Mater Europaea University, Slovenia
Grigoris Zarotiadis / Professor and Dean, Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Liang-Jie Zhang / Distinguished Professor, College of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
Associate Fellows
Dalia Alic / Advisor at the Permanent Mission to the OSCE, UN and International Organizations, Vienna
Dina Dragija / Co-Founder, UNWASTED Forum, Founder President, Youth Leadership Network
Junior Fellows
Giulio Ammannato / Psychologist and psychotherapist, Trauma-Informed Care Best Practices Project
Lorenzo Rodriguez / Political Scientist, Research and Project Officer, EXTRA Working Group
Evangelia Savvidou / Global Youth Networks Manager & founding Regional Network Coordinator, SDSN Youth Black Sea