Our Board

ICET Board Members subscribe to the goals of ICET and make contributions to the improvement of the education of professional educators through research, teaching, and leadership in their country or region. They hold positions in schools, higher education, government or the private sector.

Board of Directors Executive Committee

Carol Hordatt Gentles (Term ending World Assembly 2027)
The University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica

Treasurer/Secretary (2-Year term)

Deborah Eldridge (Term ending World Assembly 2024)
USA

Board Chairperson (2-Year Term)

Sarah Younie (Term ending 2025)
De Montfort University, England

Chairperson-Elect of the Board (2-Year Term)

Joseph Divala (Term ending 2025)
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Regional Vice President-Australia / Asia / Pacific  (2-Year Term)
Dianne Cullen (Second Term through to World Assembly 2023)
Australian Catholic University, Australia

Regional Vice President Latin America and the Caribbean (2-Year Term)
Mariana Coolican (Second term ending World Assembly 2024)
Social Protection Policy Specialist at UNICEF, Equatorial Guinea 

Regional Vice President-Europe          
Roman Svaricek (Second Term ending World Assembly 2023)
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Board of Directors

AFRICA

Dr. Tola Olujuwon (Second term ending World Assembly 2026)
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, South Africa

Mr. Akwasi S Addae-Boahene
Chief Technical Adviser of the Transforming Teaching, Education and Learning (T-TEL) Ghana

AUSTRALIA / ASIA / PACIFIC

Jo Smith (First Term ending World Assembly 2023)
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Larissa McLean Davies
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne

EUROPE

Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt (Second term ending World Assembly 2026)
Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel

Joanna Madalinska-Michalak (Second term ending World Assembly 2023)
University of Warsaw, Poland

Tanya Ovenden-Hope (First term ending World Assembly 2023)
Plymouth Marjon University, England
Marjon University, Cornwall

ARAB STATES

Dr. Yousra al Sinani
Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

NORTH AMERICA

Christy Tirrell-Corbin (Second Term ending World Assembly 2025)
University of Maryland, USA

LATIN AMERICA  AND THE CARIBBEAN

Sandra Robinson (First Term ending World Assembly 2023)
The University of the West Indies, Cavehill, Barbados

EX OFFICIO

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
(Term ending World Assembly 2028) 

Mapping Educational Specialist Know How (MESH)
UK (Term ending World Assembly 2025)

Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) 
UK (Term ending World Assembly 2025)