Governance | IAES

Our governance

The International Events Studies Association is a not-for-profit unincorporated association. IAES is governed by a board of permanent and elected members, and any member of IAES can stand to become a board member in line with our memorandum of association. Details of our founding board members are below:

Founding board

President

Dr Mu Guo

Honorary President, Zhejiang International Event Association and President, Asia-Pacific Event Institute, People's Republic of China

Find out more about Dr Guo

bc325@126.com

Chair

Dr James Kennell

Head of Department of Hospitality and Events, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Find out more about Dr Kennell

j.kennell@surrey.ac.uk

Secretary-General

Dr Mingguang Liu

Head of Event Management Department, Zhejiang International Studies University, People's Republic of China

Find out more about Dr Liu

lmg_001@zisu.edu.cn

Founding board member

Dr Emma Abson

Senior Lecturer, Events Management,

Sheffield Hallam Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Find out more about Dr Abson

e.abson@shu.ac.uk

Founding board member

Dr Mike Duignan

Tenured Associate Professor, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida

and Editor-in-Chief of the Event Management journal, United States of America

Find out more about Dr Duignan

michael.duignan@ucf.edu

Founding board member

Dr Melise de Lima Pereira

Assistant Professor in the Department of Tourism and head coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Tourism at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Find out more about Dr Lima Pereira

melisepereira@ufpr.br

Founding board member

Professor Tembi Tichaawa

Head of Department for Tourism, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Find out more about Prof. Tichawa

tembit@uj.ac.za