The CIB Board consists of 20-30 members that hold senior leadership positions within their countries’ research and academic communities. It is elected every three years at the General Assembly which is held to coincide with the World Building Congress in that year.

CIB Board Members for the triennium 2022-2025 include:

  • CEOs and other C-Suite leaders from national building research institutes and agencies;
  • Leaders of building and construction departments at national research organizations; and
  • Deans at internationally renowned universities.

President

Makarand (Mark) Hastak, USA
Purdue University

Vice Presidents

Patricia Tzortzopoulos, United Kingdom
University of Huddersfield
Ron Wakefield, Australia
RMIT University

Treasurer

Paul Chan, Netherlands
TU Delft

Other Officers

Keith Hampson, Australia
SBEnrc Curtin University – Immediate Past President
Kim Haugbølle, Denmark
Aalborg University – Programme Committee Chair
Michael Lacasse, Canada
National Research Council Canada – Third Party Funding Task Group Chair
Georg Reichard, USA 
Virginia Tech University – Membership & Communications Committee Chair
Srinath Perera, Australia
Western Sydney University – (Guest of the Board) Student Chapters Committee/Early Career Research Network Chair

Other Board Members

Saeed Bakhtiyari, Iran
Building and Housing Research Center
Professor Taha Elhag, UAE 
Heriot-Watt University (Dubai)
Hisham Elkadi, United Kingdom
University of Salford
Dongping Fang, China
Tsinghua University
Theo C. Haupt, South Africa
Nelson Mandela University
Bart Ingelaere, Belgium
Buildwise
Thomas Kirmayr, Germany
Fraunhofer Building Innovation Alliance, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
Göran Lindahl, Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology

Kathy Michell, South Africa
S+CUBE, University of Cape Town (UCT)
Piia Sormunen, Finland
Tampere University Foundation
Monty Sutrisna, New Zealand
Massey University
Anita Terjék, Hungary
ÉMI 
Janne Tahtikunnas, Finland
RIL – Finnish Association of Civil Engineers
Eduardo Toledo, Brazil
University of São Paulo – Escola Politécnica
Tarek Zayed, China
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Peter Paul Van ‘t Veen, Netherlands
TNO