Four New Members Elected to DDI Alliance Executive Board

Submitted by vardigan on Tue, 2015-10-06 12:52

The June 2015 election resulted in four new members joining the DDI Executive Board:

• Bill Block, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) – 2015-2019

• Louise Corti, United Kingdom Data Archive (UKDA) – 2015-2019

• David Schiller, Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) – 2015-2017, completing the term of Gillian Nicoll

• Joachim Wackerow, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences – 2015-2019

Continuing members include:

• Steve McEachern, Australian Data Archive (ADA) – 2013-2017

• Leanne Trimble, University of Toronto, Scholars Portal – 2013-2017

• George Alter, representing ICPSR, the Alliance Host Institution

Sincere thanks are owed to the outgoing Board members -- Mari Kleemola, Ron Nakao, Gillian Nicoll, and Anita Rocha -- for their excellent service and dedication. They accomplished a great deal during a short time and had a huge impact on professionalizing the organization.