Meet the new members of IFLA’s exco
IFLA is delighted to announce its members have elected 5 new officers as part of the IFLA Executive Committee
We recently held World Level elections for:
IFLA President
IFLA Treasurer
IFLA Standing Committee Chair on Communications and External Relations
IFLA Standing Committee Chair on Education and Academic Affairs
IFLA Standing Committee Chair on Professional Practice and Policy
Our new members will commence their roles immediately after the World Council Meeting 2022 and ending immediately after the World Council Meeting 2024, with exception of IFLA Treasurer whose office will start on 1 of January 2023 and end on 31 December 2024.
IFLA Treasurer - Hermann Georg Gunnlaugsson
IFLA President - Bruno Marques
Bruno Marques is a registered landscape architect and university educator. Bruno completed his Landscape Architecture studies at Lisbon University (PT) and Berlin Technical University (DE), followed by his PhD studies at the University of Otago (NZ). He has practised in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom and Aotearoa-New Zealand, having an extensive portfolio of built projects. During the past eight years at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa-New Zealand, he has developed a comprehensive research agenda to embrace the formulation of frameworks on landscape rehabilitation, cultural landscapes, place-making and Indigenous community health and wellbeing. He currently is the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington and the immediate past Head of the Landscape Architecture Department.Professionally, he has been a long-standing contributor to the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) since 2008, most recently acting as the Standing Chair for Communications and External Relations (2014-2018).
Bruno CV
Bruno Manifesto
Chair of Communications and External Relations (CER) Committee - Kharbal Kaltho
Chair of Education and Academic Affairs (EAA) Committee - Julian Raxworthy
Kharbal James Kaltho is a Practicing Architect and Landscape Architect with experience in regional planning, participating in numerous state & campus master plan projects in Northern Nigeria. His research interests are in the areas of Landscape watershed restoration, regeneration of degraded landscapes, and regional Landscape planning and design.
His experience in the communication arena comes from his role as the Publicity Secretary of the Society of Landscape Architects of Nigeria (SLAN) for four years, SLAN representative to the IFLA Africa CER from 2014 to 2021, then Chair of the IFLA Africa (CER) from January 2016 to October 2021. He is the current secretary-general of IFLA Africa.
Kharbal CV
Kharbal Manifesto
Dr Julian Raxworthy is a registered landscape architect and Associate Professor & Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture at the University of Canberra, and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Queensland, where he completed his PhD in 2013 entitled Novelty in the entropic landscape: Landscape architecture, gardening and change. He has been faculty at RMIT, QUT and the University of Cape Town, and visiting professor at l’École nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles and the University of Virginia. His book Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening published in 2018 by The MIT Press was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Julian CV
Julian Manifesto
