The Academic Network’s Executive Committee consists of a Chair, Deputy Chair, and Secretary. Guided by the Advisory Board of 6 members, the Executive Committee is responsible for the operation and coordination of the Academic Network. The Academic Network may establish sub-regional groups, led by Regional Representatives, in line with UN-GGIM regional committees and or task teams to focus on particular aspects of the programs under its oversight.

More information about the members of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board is available here.

Executive Committee

Chair

Songnian Li
Toronto Metropolitan University
(Canada)

Deputy Chair

Georg Gartner
Vienna University of Technology
(Austria)

Secretary

Saeid Pirasteh 
Shaoxing University
(China)

Advisory Board

Past Chair

Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
(Italy)

Member

Rosario Casanova
Universidad de la República
(Uruguay)

Member

Jonathan Li
University of Waterloo
(Canada)

Member

Abbas Rajabifard
University of Melbourne
(Australia)

Member

Jie Shen
Nanjing Normal University
(China)

Member

Tarun Pratap Singh
Symbiosis International University
(India)

Member

Vidhya Mathivanan
Anna University
(India)

Regional Representatives

Africa

Serena Coetzee
University of Pretoria
(South Africa)

Americas

Rosario Casanova
Universidad de la República
(Uruguay)

Asia-Pacific

Huayi Wu
Wuhan University
(China)

Europe

Joep Crompvoets
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium)