congress Revision Working Group Members

Tobiloba Akibo

Tobiloba has been practising as a landscape architect for 8 years, she has a first degree in Architecture from Covenant University, and a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from University of Lagos, she is committed to landscape ecology and conservation, with experience in exploring, documenting and preserving historic landscapes and the evolution of landscape architecture styles within open spaces in pre and post-colonial Nigeria. She has extensive experience in public park design,  private residential landscaping and garden design. She has also volunteered her time at Legacy 1995, a historical preservation group in Nigeria focused on preserving historic monuments and sites in Nigeria where between 2016-2020, she served as the ground manager and membership secretary,  where she worked with a team that aimed to preserve the landscaping and grounds of the site in the landscape style of the 1800's in Lagos, Nigeria to match the existing historical building on the site.

A registered member of the Society of Landscape Architects in Nigeria (SLAN), and International Council on Monuments and Sites ( ICOMOS) Nigeria, she currently practises in Lagos, Nigeria.

She currently chairs the IFLA Africa Communications and External Relations committee.

Pia Jonsson

Pia Jonsson, Landscape architect LAR/MSA, graduated from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in 2012. She is currently working for Landskapslaget, one of the biggest Landscape Architecture consultancy firms in Stockholm, Sweden. Her engagement in Architects Sweden started as vice president of the student organisation in 2007. Pia has been the Swedish IFLA-Delegate of Architects Sweden since 2019 and was the project leader for the IFLA World Congress 2023 in collaboration with Architectural Association of Kenya.

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Elizabeth "Eli" Pollard

Elizabeth "Eli" Pollard (Executive Director) has been with the World Parkinson Coalition from its inception in 2004 where she helped steer the organization, alongside world renowned Parkinsonologist and WPC founder, Dr. Stanley Fahn. Together they worked to grow WPC Inc. from its sole purpose, of hosting a triennial global Congress on Parkinson's disease, to its more meaningful place in the community today, as a hub for many of the global PD organizations to connect and intersect. The World Parkinson Congresses are recognized in the global meeting industry for offering something that many other disease areas have struggled to do, giving all stakeholders a seat at the table and a voice on the issues.  Eli also used the WPC as a model event to lead the meeting industry in a push for organizations to leave a legacy after a meeting, which started when the WPC launched its “Make the City Parkinson’s Ready” program at the WPC 2010 in Glasgow. Eli is thrilled with the opportunity to offer new ideas that haven’t yet been explored in the Parkinson’s space and to meet the members of the community, and to watch as leading researchers, clinicians, people with Parkinson's and others work together to bring us closer to finding the cause(s) of Parkinson's and a cure for the disease.

Anita Veiseth