The following sections and working groups elected new officers during their business meetings at the Madrid conference. New officers are elected for four year terms.
IAMCR would like to express its sincere thanks to the outgoing officers and to welcome the new ones.
In the list below, newly elected officers are marked in bold. Those not in bold are continuing with their previous mandates. To see the heads of any section or working group not listed here (i.e. that did not hold elections in 2019), visit select the group’s page from the list of all sections and working groups.
Sections
Communication Policy and Technology
- Co-chair: Francesca Musiani
- Co-chair: Julia Pohle
- Vice chair: Jeremy Shtern
- Vice chair: Weiyu Zhang
Community Communication and Alternative Media
- Co-Chair: Andrea Medrado
- Co-Chair: Vinod Pavarala
- Vice chair: Claudia Magallanes-Blanco
- Vice chair: Alejandro Barranquero
Emerging Scholars Network
- Co-Chair: Ksenia Ermoshina
- Co-Chair: Sibo Chen
- Vice chair: Steph Hill
Law
- Co-Chair: Loreto Corredoira
- Co-Chair: Rodrigo Cetina Presuel
- Vice chair: Fernando Gutiérrez-Atala
- Vice chair: Lucas Logan
Media Education Research
- Chair: Sara Pereira
- Vice chair: Ruchi Kher Jaggi
- Vice chair: Michael Hoechsman
- Vice chair: Leena Ripatti-Torniainen
Political Communication Research
- Co-Chair: Julio Juárez Gámiz
- Co-Chair: Marie Grusell
- Vice Chair: André Haller
- Vice Chair: Martín Echeverría
- Vice Chair: Sara Garcia
Political Economy
- Chair: Rodrigo Gómez
- Vice chair: Peter Thompson
- Vice chair: Benjamin J. Birkinbine
- Vice chair: Yu Hong
Working Groups
Diaspora and the Media
- Co-Chair: Sofía Cavalcanti Zanforlin
- Co-Chair: Jessica Retis
- Vice-Chair: Sumana Chattopadhyay
Health Communication
- Co-Chair: SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu
- Co-Chair: Yolanda Paul
- Vice chair: Sinikka Torkkola
- Vice chair: Eliza Govender
Media Production Analysis
- Co-Chair: Willemien Sanders
- Co-Chair: Anna Zoellner
Popular Culture
- Chair: Tonny Krijnen
- Vice-Chair: Niall Brennan
- Vice-Chair: Frederik Dhaenens
Visual Culture
- Co-Chair: Denize Correa Araujo
- Co-Chair: Sunny Yoon
- Vice-Chair (interim): Thomas Wiedemann