The International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) is pleased to announce that Ted Mao, Chief Technology Officer, Evercloak, has assumed the role as President of the group for a two year term. Ernest (Chip) Blatchley, Purdue University, has been named President-Elect; and Jennifer Osgood, with CDM Smith, is now immediate past president--with each serving to help lead the IUVA Executive Operating Committee and Board. IUVA members elected a slate of officers and new board members at their biennial World Congress, held in September, 2023 in Dubai, UAE.  

Additional Elected Executive Operating Committee Officers include:

• Richard Joshi, Evoqua, Secretary
• Gary Hunter, Black and Veatch, Treasurer
• Ron Hofmann, University of Toronto, co-VP Americas 
• Oliver Lawal, AquiSense Technologies, co-VP Americas 
• Kumiko Oguma, The University of Tokyo, VP Asia 
• Hadas Mamane, Tel Aviv University, co-VP EMEA 
• Ian Mayor-Smith, University of Brighton, co-VP EMEA

In addition, the IUVA elected a slate of new Board members, including:

• Dianne Poster, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Curtis Donskey, Prof. of Medicine at Case Western Reserve
• Kate McPhaul, Univ. of Maryland Public Health Aerobiology Lab
• Ran Yin, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• Ashish Mathur, UltraViolet Devices, Inc.
• Dan Spicer, Light Sources Inc.
• Hadas Mamane, Tel Aviv University
• John Maiyo, The University of Memphis
• Mengkai Li, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences