The Leaders That Help Drive Audio Engineering Forward
AES is guided by a dedicated group of volunteer leaders — from the Board of Directors to Governors and Committee Chairs — who shape the Society's direction and advance its mission.
Board of Directors
Board of Governors
Vice-Presidents
Western Region, USA/Canada
Central Region, USA/Canada
- Kelvin Grimble
Eastern Region, USA/Canada
- Angela Piva
Northern Region, Europe
- Jamie Angus-Whiteoak
Central Region, Europe
- Piotr Majdak
Southern Europe/Middle East/ Africa Region
- Huseyin Hacihabiboglu
Latin American Region
- Ezequiel Morfi
Asia-Pacific Region
- Masataka Nakahara
Governors
- Jamie Baker
- Fariuska Lira
- Merlijn van Veen
- Leslie Gaston-Bird
- Bruce Olson
- Malik Williams
- Brett Leonard
- Bernarda Ubidia
Standing Committee Chairs
Education
Chair
Ian Corbett
Angela Piva
Vice-Chair (Asia)
Kazuhiko Kawahara
Vice-Chair (Latin America)
Marcela Zorro
Vice-Chair (Europe)
Vanessa Garde
Vice-Chair (Student Design Competition)
Christoph Thompson
Vice-Chair (Student Recording Competition)
Miles Fulwider
Vice-Chair (Student Recording Competition)
Kia Eshghi
Events
Chairs, Events Coordination Committee
Agnieszka Roginska
Brett Leonard
Chairs, Conference Committee
Gary Gottlieb
Bill Foster
Chair, Convention Committee
Graham Kirk
Chair, Training & Development Committee
Brad Swanson
Historical
Chair
Brad McCoy
Chair Emeritus
William Wray
Vice-Chair Web/IT
Scott Burgess
Vice-Chair Oral History
Dan Mortensen
Technical Council Leadership
Co-Chairs
Rafael Kassier
Lesley Fogle
Vice-Chair
Jayant Datta
Regions & Sections
Chair
Bill Schulenburg
Vice-Chair
Kerry J Haps
Board of Tellers
Chair
Gary Louie
Alternate, Board of Tellers
Chris Freitag
Standards
Chair
Bruce Olson
Vice-Chair
Jeff Berryman
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Chairs
Mary Mazurek
Cecilia Wu
Publications Policy
Co-Chairs
Areti Andreopoulou
Braxton Boren
Accessibility
Co-Chairs
Shelby Lock
Marty Cooper
Audit
Chair
Glenn Lorbecki
Membership
Chair
Jessica Livingston
Awards
Chair
Leslie Gaston-Bird
Nominations
Chair
Gary Gottlieb
Journal
Editor-in-Chief
Brian F.G. Katz
Technical Council
Live Performance Technology
Chair
Miriam Iorwerth
Tom Beyer
Vice-Chair
Shelly Katz
Ben Chadabe
Audio Terminology
Chair
Jayant Datta
Automotive Audio
Chair
Roger Shively
Hans Lahti
Vice-Chair
Pat Dennis
Martin Kreissig
Audio for Motion Picture
Chair
Julian Pinn
Audio Forensics
Chair
Cole Whitecotton
James Zjalic
Vice-Chair
Gretchel Lomboy
Audio for Interactive Media & Games
Chair
Shauny Jang
Brian Katz
Vice-Chair
Aili Niimura
Annika Neidhardt
Archiving, Restoration & Digital Libraries
Chair
Kaylie Ackerman
Nadja Wallaszkovits
Acoustics & Sound Reinforcement
Chair
Kurt M. Graffy
Adam Hill
Vice-Chair
Arica Rust
Tobias Goldman
Broadcast & Online Delivery
Chair
David Bialik
Kimio Hamasaki
Matthieu Parmentier
Jim Starzynski
Coding of Audio Signals
Chair
Juergen Herre
Vice-Chair
Jan Skoglund
Hearing & Hearing Loss Prevention
Chair
Michael Santucci
Vice-Chair
Dorte Hammershoi
High-Resolution Audio
Chair
Vicki R. Melchior
Vice-Chair
Hyunkook Lee
Transducers & Amplifiers
Chair
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Audio
Chair
Gordon Wichern
M. Nyssim Lefford
Vice-Chair
Christian Uhle
Brecht De Man
Network Audio Systems
Chair
Kevin Gross
Vice-Chair
Andreas Hildebrand
Measurement & Sound Quality
Chair
Rafael Kassier
Neo Kaplanis
Audio Production
Chair
Jim Kaiser
Vice-Chairs
Andres A. Mayo
Kimi Hamasaki
George Massenburg
Spatial Audio
Chair
Jean-Marc Jot
Nils Peters
Vice-Chairs
Michaela Warnecke
Annika Neidhardt
Audio Algorithms
Chair
Matthias Kronlachner
Vice-Chair
Karolina Prawda