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(2025 - 2026)

Dr Murray Hitzman was formerly Associate Director at the United States Geological Survey and Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, one of the world’s pre-eminent geological institutions. He is currently Director of the Irish Research Centre in Application Geoscience (iCRAG) and Senior Visiting Investigator at the Carnegie Institute. Dr. Hitzman has collaborated extensively in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Oceania over his career, managing multi-million-dollar research programmes, and has advocated strongly for the importance of Earth resources for decarbonization and the biodiversity crises. In his current role as Director of iCRAG, he oversees a multi-institutional research centre that hosts researchers from ~20 countries around the world specializing in applied geological research.

(2023 - 2026)

Gloria holds a Doctorate in Sciences in Geochemistry and petrology from the Federal University of Pará (UFPá) in Brazil and served as researcher at the Geological Survey of Colombia (SGC) for more than 30 years. In the last ten years of her career, she worked as Technical Director of the Directorate of Mineral Resources of the Geological Survey of Colombia. Her responsibilities included direction of programs in local geology for mineral resources, geochemistry, geophysics and metallogeny at different scales, in order to identify prospective areas for mineral resources, to evaluate the mineral potential related to metallic, no metallic and industrial and energy minerals, and also to investigate the relationship between mineral resources occurrences and deposits and the natural environment including its incidence in the ecosystems and the health of living beings (geomedicine).

She is specialised in the characterization of mining residues and tailings, for usage for social benefit. Her findings were published as reports and scientific papers, in national and international networks and journals. Gloria contributed to the generation of the Geochemical Atlas of Colombia, and the Global Geochemical Baselines Mapping. Her group developed the Metallogeny Map of Colombia (versions 2016, 2018, 2020), executed the geophysical mapping program of Colombia (magnetometry and Gamma – spectrometry) at densities appropriated to mineral resources research and produced the Geophysical Anomalies Maps of Colombia (Mag & Gamma). Applying the historic and the new information (geology, geochemistry, geophysics, metallogeny, mineralogy) and developing geochemical, geophysical and metallogenetic high density sampling, she contributed to the identification of more than 30 prospective areas for strategic and critical minerals and finished the mineral evaluation potential of more than 20 metallogenic districts in Colombia.

Gloria is a Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal "Geochemistry: Exploration – Environment – Analysis, GEEA; South America "Task Group on Global geochemical baselines" of IUGS/IAGC. Member of the Scientific Committee and part of the Governing Council of the "UNESCO International Centre on Global – Scale Geochemistry", National Contact Point (NCP) for the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union (EU). She evaluated research projects for the Ministry of Sciences of Colombia (Minciencias).

Gloria is a strong promotor of gender equality within the groups of experts in metallogeny, geochemistry and cooperation of the Association of Geological and Mining Surveys of Ibero-America (ASGMI). As a Latin American woman researcher in geosciences Gloria is familiar with the challenges and opportunities of Latin American countries and will lead Earth Resources theme of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) council between 2023 and 2026.

(2025 - 2028)

Asrat Kassaye Asfawossen is a Professor at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, specializing in environmental and isotope geochemistry, paleoclimatology, and climate change. He has previously been Professor at Addis Ababa University and a Young Affiliate of the World Academy of Sciences (2012-2017), and is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He is actively engaged in teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, has authored two textbooks, and supervised more than 50 MSc and 8 PhD students. Dr Asfawossen has authored/coauthored more than 135 peer-reviewed publications, including in high-impact, international scientific journals. In addition to this impressive commitment to teaching/mentorship and research, he has made significant contributions to the geoscience community at an international level, though serving as the Vice-President of the Geological Society of Africa, President of the Eastern African Quaternary Research Association, on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Geomorphologists, and on the UNESCO Global Geopark Council. In addition to collaborating with researchers internationally, Dr Asfawossen has held visiting fellowships in Germany, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and France. 

(2023 - 2026)

YoungHee Kim is a professor of Geophysics (Seismology) in School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University, South Korea. She also holds a position as a Director of Research Center for Deep-Surface Coupling of Earth. She has served since 2017 as a Co-Editor for “Exploration Geophysics” which is an international journal published on behalf of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG), the Society of Exploration Geophysics of Japan (SEGJ), and the Korean Society of Earth and Exploration Geophysicists (KSEG). Since 2019, she has served as an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). To note, BSSA has served the earth science community as the leading source of peer-reviewed research in seismology since 1911.

YoungHee received her Ph.D. in Geophysics at Caltech in 2011 and worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in 2011-2012. Her principal research interests focus on the use of seismic array data to provide insights into processes occurring in the crust and mantle. Her recent research interests focus on lithosphere structure/processes via body-wave seismic imaging, locating and characterizing earthquakes, and seismotectonics.

Since working as a professor at Seoul National University in 2012, YoungHee has been playing a leading role in deploying and maintaining several portable seismic arrays, as well as processing and interpreting seismic array data. The acquired data was used to provide insights into a complex fault-zone system and a volcanic system in various intraplate settings. Continuing with this effort, in recent years, earthquake observation networks in South Korea expanded substantially, and increasing seismic observations and numerical capabilities have opened a new discussion on the seismicity, volcanism, and tectonics in a wider context of geodynamics. In conjunction with the research, YoungHee has shared her work through conference presentations and research workshops. As of June 2022, she has 217 submitted conference abstracts (international 127; domestic 90). Of the 217 presentations, she has advised 77 presentations authored by undergraduate and graduate students, and 14 presentations were recognized with awards.

(2025 - 2028)

Lydia Meck Maideyi is an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe, where she studies the impact of mining on surface water and groundwater quality. She has also served as the Deputy Director of the School of Mineral and Earth Science at the University of Zimbabwe, demonstrating leadership in strategic planning and fostering industry-academic partnerships, aligning academic research with real-world problems. A Global Minds Visiting Fellowship at KU Leuven in 2022 on the subject of critical minerals further reinforces her extensive expertise in water quality and sustainable resource management. Her commitment to community service and capacity building has been demonstrated through involvement in numerous international projects with UNESCO, USAID, the African Development Bank Group, and the Government of Zimbabwe, among others. Dr. Maideyi has also served as the representative of the Geological Society of Africa to the International Union of Geological Sciences, as the President of the Geological Society of Zimbabwe, and representative of Southern Africa to the African Association of Women in Geosciences.

(2025 - 2028)

Khalid Al-Ramadan is a Full Professor and Program Leader in the College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences at the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. His research interests focus on the reservoir properties of ancient deep-sea landslides, the stratigraphy and chronology of sand dunes, and modern shallow marine environments. During his career he has collaborated with researchers at prestigious universities in the United States of America, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Denmark, Italy, and elsewhere. Dr Al-Ramadan has also been very successful in forging partnerships with the private sector to support research activities, as well as for capacity building activities, using this funding to lead international field excursions for university students. Further, he has served as faculty advisor to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Student Chapter at KFUPM, supporting them to win regional and global competitions. Since the year 2000, he has authored/coauthored approximately 100 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. In 2019 Dr Al-Ramadan won the Excellence in Teaching award from KFUPM, followed by the Excellence in Advising award in 2020.

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Dr Ludwig Stroink graduated in Geology from the RWTH Technical University of Aachen, Germany, were he later obtained his Doctoral degree. Ludwig has more than 25 years of experience in interdisciplinary research and international project management. Currently he is appointed head of the 'Projects and International Affairs' department at the German Research Centre for Geosciences - GFZ. He was Chairman of the Working Committee 'International Relations' of the Helmholtz Association and between 2020-2024 he served as a 'Councillor' in the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences, IUGS. He held positions in the European Climate-KIC Programme and served as an advisor to the Oman Government for the implementation of the non-university research centre in Muscat. In 2017 he was awarded with the "International Research Marketing-Award" and in 2021 he won the first-ever Prize for Science Diplomacy awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.