The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commissions bring together experts from around the world to advance research, collaboration, and knowledge across a diverse range of geographical disciplines. Below are the current IGU Commission leadership teams.
African Studies
Chair: Inocent Moyo
Secretary: Christopher Nshimbi
Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering
Chair: Guy M. Robinson
Vice-Chair & Secretary: Yuheng Li
Applied Geography Commission
Chair: Nik Lomax
Secretary: William James
Biogeography and Biodiversity
Chair: Prof. Dr. Udo Schickhoff
Vice-Chair: Dr. Suraj Mal
Secretary: Dr. Maria Bobrowski
Climatology
Chair: Agnieszka Wypych
Vice-Chair: Hadas Saaroni
Commission on Coastal Systems
Chair: David R. Green
Secretary & Editor: Irene Delgado-Fernandez
Cold and High Altitude Regions
Chair: Shichang Kang
Secretary: Lekhendra Tripathee
Cultural Geography, Society and Heritage
Chair: Louis Dupont
Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces (CDES)
Chair: Eva Kiss
Vice-Chair: Patrick Heidkamp
Gender and Geography
Chair: Prof. Joseli Maria Silva
Geographical Education
Co-Chair: Gillian Kidman
Co-Chair: Martin Hanus
Secretary: Tricia Seow
Geographical Information Science
Chair: Fenzhen Su
Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability
Chair: Wenwu Zhao
Secretary: Yan Li
Geography of Digital Society and Connected World
Chair: Philippe Vidal
Co-Chair: Jiyeon Shin
Secretary: Clara Di Fazio
Geography of Governance
Co-Chair: Anna Trono
Co-Chair: Jeffrey McNeill
Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
Chair: Joseph Cheer
Geoheritage and Parks
Chair: Dongying Wei
Joint Chair: Subhash Anand
Vice-Chair: Benjamin van Wyk de Vries
Geomorphology and Society
Chair: Yasuhiro Suzuki
Secretary: Hitoshi Saito
Global Understanding
Chair: Prof. Benno Werlen
Secretary: Dr. Martin Repohl
Hazard and Risk
Chair: Alessandro Mondini
Secretary: Paola Reichenbach
History of Geography
Chair: Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Vice-Chair: Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier
Secretary: Federico Ferretti
Informality, Social Change and Development
Chair: Desheng Xue
Secretary: Gengzhi Huang
International Geography Olympiad
Co-Chair: Prof. Su-Min Shen
Co-Chair: Paul Van Zant
Islands
Chair: Anica Čuka
Vice-Chair: Annette Breckwoldt
Secretary: Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
Land Degradation and Desertification
Chair: Matija Zorn
Secretary: Owen Graham
Land Use and Land Cover Change
Chair: Monica Stefania Dumitrașcu
Secretary: Matjaž Geršič
Secretary: Gheorghe Kucsicsa
Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning
Chair: Marine Elbakidze
Secretary: Shlomit Flint Ashery
Caribbean
Chair: Melgris José Becerra Ruiz
Vice-Chair 1: Claudio Ubiratan Goncalvez
Vice-Chair 2: Luz Vanessa Perez Tapia
Vice-Chair 3: Nias Hernandez
Vice-Chair 4: Javier Bautista Ortiz
Secretary General: Letícia Larin Platzeck Senra
Local and Regional Development
Chair: Ines Grigorescu
Vice-Chair: Carmen Vazquez Varela
Secretary: Bianca Mitrică
Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses
Chair: Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš
Vice-Chair: Krystian Heffner
Secretary: Kim Kessler
Mediterranean Basin (COMB)
Chair: Mohamed Alouat
Modelling Geographical Systems
Chair: Min Chen
Secretary General: Wei Luo
Secretary: Zaiyang Ma
Mountain Studies
Chair: Prof. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento
Vice-Chair: Prof. Dr. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
Vice-Chair: Prof. Dr. Alexey Gunya
Secretary & Social Media: Dr. Neslihan Dal
Population Geography
Chair: Darren Smith
Vice-Chair: Charlotta Hedberg
Secretary: Francisco Rowe
Research Methods in Geography
Co-Chair: Meghan Cope
Co-Chair: Karanja Faith Njoki
Silk Road Civilizations and Environments
Chair: Fahu Chen
Secretary: Juzhi Hou
Sustainability of Rural Systems
Co-Chair: Valerià Paül
Co-Chair: Fiona Haslam McKenzie
Secretary: Aleksandar Lukić
Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy
IGU Co-Chair: Elena Dai Prà
ICA Co-Chair: Matjaž Geršič
Vice-Chair: Beatriz Cristina Pereira de Souza Pinto
Transport & Geography
Chair: Chia-Lin Chen
Vice-Chair: Pengjun Zhao
Secretary: Dong Liu
Urban Geography
Chair: Dani Broitman
Vice-Chair: Natacha Aveline
Water Sustainability
Chair: Frank Winde
Deputy Chair: Liliana Zaharia
Deputy Chair: Daniel Karthe
Secretary: Vacant
Young and Early Career Geographers
Chair: Gaurav Sikka
Secretary: Komali Yenneti