IPPA Board of Directors
Terms of Office End as Noted
- Meike Bartels, Ph.D., President (2023)
Professor in Genetics and Wellbeing at the department of Biological Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Judy Moskowitz, Ph.D., Immediate Past-President (2023)
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Roy Baumeister, Ph.D., President-Elect (2023)
University of Queensland, Australia
- Kim Cameron, Ph.D., Secretary (2023)
William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations
Ross School of Business and Professor of Higher Education
University of Michigan, USA
- Andrew Soren, Treasurer (2024)
- Tayyab Rashid, Ph.D., Member-At-Large (2022)
Licensed clinical psychologist at the Health & Wellness Centre
Associate faculty, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
- Scott Riddell, Member-At-Large (2023)
- Michael Steger, Ph.D., Member-At-Large (2024)
Professor of Psychology, Founding Director of the Center for Meaning and Purpose Colorado State University, USA
- Daniel Shek, Ph.D., Member-At-Large (2023)
Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- James Pawelski, Ph.D., Senior Advisor (2024)
Director of Education and Senior Scholar
Positive Psychology Center
University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Scott Pearl, Executive Director
- Martin Seligman, Ph.D., Senior Advisor (2021)
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Council of Advisors
Senior Lecturer in Positive Psychology
Program Leader, MAPP
University of East London, United Kingdom
Leona Brandwene, (2023)
Associate Director
Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Program
University of Pennsylvania
Jenny Brennan, MAPP (2024)
Nonprofit Consultant, Practitioner
Massachusetts, USA
Alejandro Castro Solano (2023)
Universidad de Palermo, Argentina
David Cooperrider, Ph.D. (2023)
Fairmont Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Liz Corcoran (ex officio)
Sr VP Design and Development
Impact Performance Group, USA
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. (2023)
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management
Founding Co-Director, Quality of Life Research Center
Claremont Graduate University, USA
Antonella Delle Fave, M.D. (2025)
Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine
University of Milano, Italy
Sonia White (ex officio)
Stewart Donaldson, Ph.D. (2025)
Professor of Psychology and Community & Global Health
Dean of the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
Dean of the School of Community & Global Health
Director of the Claremont Evaluation Center
Claremont Graduate University, USA
Barbara Fredrickson (2023)
Kenan Distinguished Professor Director,
Social Psychology Doctoral Program Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Maria Elena Garassini, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychology
Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela
Dora Guorun Guomundsdottir, (ex officio)
Director of Determinants of Health and Wellbeing, Directorate of Health, Iceland
John Helliwell, Ph.D. (2023)
Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Co-Director, CIFAR Program on Social Interactions, Identity and Well Being
Professor Emeritus, Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Rose Inza-Kim, Ph.D. (2023)
Director, Korea Counsiling Center
Professor Emeritus, Sogang University – Seoul, Korea
Hans Henrik Knoop, Ph.D. (2023)
President, European Network for Positive Psychology
Associate Professor, Danish School of Education, Denmark
Richard Layard (2023)
Director, Well-Being Program, Centre for Economic Performance
London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Liana Lianov (ex officio)
Chair, Happiness Science and Positive Health Committee, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, USA
Charles Martin-Krumm, Ph.D. (2023)
Assistant Professor, Psychology
University of Western Brittany – CREAD – Research Labatory, France
Helena Marujo, Ph.D. (2025)
Professor of Psychology
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Mario Mikulincer, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor and Dean, School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Center Herzlyia, Israel
Simon Murray, OAM (2024)
Global Chair, IPEN
Jeanne Nakamura, Ph.D. (2023)
Assistant Professor, Psychology
School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
Claremont Graduate University, USA
Ryan Niemiec, Ph.D. (ex officio)
Director of Education
VIA Institute on Character
Luis Miguel Neto, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychology
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rhea Owens (ex officio)
Assistant Professor, Education, Health & Behavior, University of North Dakota, USA
Nansook Park, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychology
Director, Michigan Positive Psychology Center
University of Michigan, USA
Kaiping Peng, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor, Psychology
Tsinghua University, China
Sarah Pressman, Ph.D. (2025)
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine, USA
Reb Rebele, MAPP (2024)
Senior Research Fellow
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Willibald Ruch, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychology
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marei Salama-Younes, Ph.D. (2025)
Associate Professor of Sport Positive Psychology
Helwan Univeristy – Cairo, Egypt
Kamlesh Singh, Ph.D. (2023)
Associate Professor of Psychology
Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, India
Alena Slezåckovå, Ph.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychology
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Philip Streit, Ph.D. (2023)
Director, Institute for Kids, Youth and Family, Austria
Margarita Tarragona, Ph.D. (2025)
Psychologist, PositivaMente, Mexico
George Vaillant, M.D. (2023)
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, The Study of Adult Development
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
Robert J. Vallerand, Ph.D. (2024)
Université du Québec à Montréal
Carmelo Vasquez, Ph.D. (2023)
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dianne Vella-Brodrick, (2025)
Associate Professor, Director of Master of Applied Positive Psychology
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Maggie Zhao (ex officio)
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marie Wissing, Ph.D. (2025)
Professor, School of Psychosocial Behavioral Sciences
North West University, South Africa
Yukun Zhao, MAPP, Ph.D. (2024)
Vice Director
Positive Psychology Research Center, Tsinghua University, China
Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D. (2021)
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Stanford University, USA