Committee

1. The Steering Committee for 2021-2024

Chair: Huei-Min Tsai

Professor, Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan. Phone: +886-2-77346565; Mobile: +886-933921658.

hmtsai@ntnu.edu.tw


Vice Chair: Annette Breckwoldt

Senior Scientist/PI SOCPacific (https://socpacific.net Marine Social Sciences, WG Social-Ecological Systems Analysis), Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) Fahrenheitstraße 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
URL: https://www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/marine-tropics-research/who-we-are/annette-breckwoldt-en.html
Facebook: www.facebook.com/leibniz-zmt.de

annette.breckwoldt@leibniz-zmt.de

Executive Secretaries:

Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, +886-2-77341680
mmbayrak@ntnu.edu.tw

Su-Hsin Lee

Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan,+886-2-77341665
shlee@ntnu.edu.tw

Steering Committee Members:

Eric Clark

Professor, Lund University, Department of Human Geography, Sölvegatan 10, 22362 Lund, Sweden. (Former Chair 2016-2021; Vice-Chair 2007-2016)
eric.clark@keg.lu.se

Adam Grydehøj

Director, Island Dynamics, Denmark; Research Associate, University of Prince Edward Island, Department of Island Studies, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org

Bénédicte André

Associate Lecturer, French and Francophone Studies, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
benedicte.andre@mq.edu.au

James A. Randall

UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability, Professor of Island Studies at University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
jarandall@upei.ca

Jonathan Pugh

Reader in Island Studies, Newcastle University, UK
(https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/jonathanpugh.html#background ).

Jonathan runs the ‘Anthropocene Islands’ initiative (https://www.anthropoceneislands.online/)

jonathan.pugh@ncl.ac.uk

Patsy Lewis

Professor, Regional Integration and Small States Development, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; Visiting Professor, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
patsy_lewis@brown.edu

Sun-Kee Hong

Professor, Institution for Marine & Island Cultures (MIC), Mokpo National University, Songrim-ro 41-11, Mokpo 530-841, Republic of Korea

Tessa Minter

Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
mintert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

2. Advisory Board

For the sake of continuity and to support the Commission, previous Steering Committee Members (2006-2016) have kindly agreed to function as an Advisory Board during the 2016-2024 term.

Chang-Yi David Chang

Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan (Former Chair, 2007-2016)
changyi@ntu.edu.tw

Godfrey Baldacchino

Professor, Pro-Rector, University of Malta, Malta
godfrey.baldacchino@um.edu.mt

Beate Ratter

Professor, Geographical Institute, University Hamburg, Bundesstr 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
ratter@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de

Stephen Royle

Emeritus Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
s.royle@qub.ac.uk

Costis Hadjimichalis

Proferssor, Harokopio University, Department of Geography, 70 EL. Venizilou St, Athens, 17671Greece
hadjimichalis@hua.gr

Gerard Persoon

Professor emeritus, Leiden University, P. O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
g.a.persoon@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Philip Steinberg

Professor, Durham University, Department of Geography, UK
philip.steinberg@durham.ac.uk

Elaine Stratford

Associate Executive Dean, College of Sciences and Engineering; Professor and Head of School, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
Elaine.Stratford@utas.edu.au

Randy Thaman

Professor, University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Fiji
thaman_r@usp.ac.fj

François Taglioni

Director of Research, Institute of research on development, BP 172, 97492 Sainte-Clotilde cedex, Reunion Island
tagli@diplomacy.edu


3. Corresponding Membership

The circulation list of corresponding members includes over 400 names from 35 countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Reunion Islands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Island.

C20.25 Commission’s website: http://geogsoc.org.tw/IGU-Islands/

Commission’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IGU_Islands-293879944568925