Corporate governance revision working group
At the 2023 IFLA World Council meeting in Nairobi and Stockholm, we recognised that effective professional organisations must evolve and adapt to change to address the needs of their members. For that to happen, we must ensure that our corporate governance follows international standards to seize new opportunities, that our secretariat is well-resourced, and that we can focus on key projects and initiatives essential to the profession.
As such the World Council accepted the establishment of a Corporate Governance Revision Working Group (CGRWG), led by the IFLA President and the IFLA Vice-President, with three IFLA delegates and two external members to IFLA, mandated to present a revised constitution and by-laws for the 2024 World Council for approval.
You can read the terms of reference here and meet the members of the working group below.
Bruno Marques
IFLA President and Working Group Chair
Jala Makhzoumi
IFLA Vice President, Interim President IFLA Middle East and Working Group Joint Chair
IFLA REPRESENTATIVES
Carey Duncan
Representative of IFLA Africa
Carey Duncan is a South African national but has lived and worked in Morocco for the past 30+ years. With degrees from the Universtiy of the Witwatersrand and from Cornell University, USA, she is a Professional Landscape Architect registered with the South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession (SACLAP).
Carey is a founding member of AAPM (Morocco), a member of ILASA (South Africa) and has been an international member of ASLA (USA) for several decades. Carey’s involvement with IFLA includes serving as president of IFLA AFRICA (2017-2021), serving as chair of the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Awards Jury from 2015-2018, and Co-Chair of the 2018 IFLA AAPME Awards. A member of the core team who devised and developed the African Landscape Network with partners at ICOMOS, Carey has also served on several IFLA working groups and continues to do so.
Her work is focussed primarily in Morocco where she founded her own practice in 1994. She has worked on a wide variety of projects from small private courtyards to large multi-use developments in both big city urban environments, and in small semi-rural towns. Carey has also made a few challenging forays into Asia, the Middle East and in sub-Saharan Africa.
Carey has won several national and international competitions and has been a finalist in the 14th and 16th Arte Laguna Prize (2020 and 2022) in the category Land Art. In 2023, she was honoured to be awarded the IFLA President’s award.
More and more convinced that landscape architects have a crucial role to play in mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, Carey endeavours to promote resilient design in her work, both in voluntary particpations and in professional practice.
Steffi Schüppel
Representative of IFLA Europe
Steffi graduated from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) in Germany as Dipl.-Ing. Landespflege. She holds a Master degree in Landscape Architecture achieved in Switzerland and Germany at the joint university program of HSR Rapperswil, FH Weihenstephan and HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen. At HSR Rapperswil, she achieved a Certificate of Advanced Studies in project management.
She enjoyed her early days in the career working overseas for Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, one of the main Landscape Architecture firms of the USA. Afterwards she collaborated with several offices throughout Germany, before she started to realize projects on her own responsibility. The chance to work in teaching and research for HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, a main Swiss landscape architecture school, gave her the opportunity to contribute to projects in cultural heritage development, landscape design and sustainable tourism. Later on, she worked for a landscape architecture practice near Zurich, also managing complex public projects. Together with her partner Matteo Cattaneo she founded her own landscape architecture practice in 2011, she currently practices in Dresden, Germany.
She is a chartered member of the Chamber of Architects of Saxony, with the qualification of Landscape Architect. She is a member of bdla - Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten, the Federation of German Landscape Architects, where she serves as spokesperson for international affairs. From 2015 to 2022 she was chairwoman of the regional group of bdla Saxony. She is also a member of AIAPP - Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio, the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture. From 2011 to 2012 she was chairwoman of the Zurich regional group of BSLA - Bund Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsarchitektinnen, the Swiss Federation of Landscape Architects.
Peta-Maree Ashford
Representative of IFLA Asia-Pacific
Peta-Maree is a Principal Landscape Architect with unwavering passion and advocacy for her profession. As an Owner and Director of a private consultancy firm, Emerge Associates, she guides design teams with innovation and a solid grasp of construction, ensuring successful execution of urban and regional projects in Western Australia. In 2016, Peta-Maree emerged as a finalist for the Inaugural Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Women in Leadership Award. Peta-Maree recently concluded her tenure as the President of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and continues to play an active role as a Director on the UDIA Enviro Development Board and AILA Australian IFLA Delegate. Flourishing in all these roles, her accumulative professional exposure fosters innovative thinking in addressing generational challenges on a nationwide context. Her recognition in 2017 with a Fellowship from her institute (AILA) attested to her distinguished professional practice and leadership.
External representatives
Matt Miller
CEO CLARB (USA)
Matt Miller currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB). At CLARB, Matt manages and collaborates with the staff team in its execution of the annual scope of work approved and funded by the Board of Directors. Matt also serves as a spokesperson for CLARB and as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors.
Previously, Matt has served various leadership roles in professional associations including, Executive Director & CEO at the American Welding Society (AWS), Chief Operating Officer for NACE International, and the Director of the SAE Foundation and Pre-Professional Programs at SAE International.
Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1997, a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from Duquesne University in 2000, and a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from Robert Morris University in 2010.
Matt is currently serving as Vice-Chair on the Board of Directors of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE).
Elisabeth Belpaire
ISOCARP President Elect (France)
Dr Audrey Timm
Technical Initiatives Manager, AIPH (UK)