Our Board

ICET Board Members subscribe to the goals of ICET and make contributions to the improvement of the education of professional educators through research, teaching, and leadership in their country or region. They hold positions in schools, higher education, government or the private sector.

Board of Directors Executive Committee

Carol Hordatt Gentles 

Retired 

Independent Lecturer
The University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica

Treasurer/Secretary (2-year term)

Deborah Eldridge, USA

Board Chairperson (2-year term)

Joseph Divala
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Chairperson-Elect of the Board (2-Year Term)

TBA

Immediate Past Chairperson (2-Year Term)
Sarah Younie
DeMontfort University, UK

Regional Vice President-Australia / Asia / Pacific  (2-year term)
Dianne Cullen 
Australian Catholic University, Australia

Regional Vice President Latin America and the Caribbean
(2-year term)

Sandra Robinson 
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

Regional Vice President-Europe          

Tanya Ovenden-Hope 
Plymouth Marjon University, England
Marjon University, Cornwall

Board of Directors

AFRICA

Mr. Akwasi S Addae-Boahene
Chief Technical Adviser of the Transforming Teaching, Education and Learning (T-TEL) Ghana

AUSTRALIA / ASIA / PACIFIC

Jo Smith (First term ending World Assembly 2023)
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Larissa McLean Davies
Australian Catholic University, Australia

Sita Yiemkuntitavorn
From Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand

EUROPE

Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt (Second term ending World Assembly 2026)
Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel

Joanna Madalinska-Michalak
(Second term ending World Assembly 2023)
University of Warsaw, Poland

Karen Blackmore
Institute of Education, University of Worcester, UK

Roman Svaricek

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Linda LaVelle
Bath Spa University, UK

ARAB STATES

Yousra al Sinani
Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

NORTH AMERICA

Lyn Gangone

Affiliate Professor, School of Education, University of Glasgow (UK)

Angela Wiseman

North Carolina State University

LATIN AMERICA  AND THE CARIBBEAN

Mariana Coolican 
Social Protection Policy Specialist at UNICEF, Equatorial Guinea 

EX OFFICIO

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
(Term ending World Assembly 2028) 

Mapping Educational Specialist Know How (MESH)
UK (Term ending World Assembly 2025)

Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) 
UK (Term ending World Assembly 2025)