During the GA, the voting for the ten seats on the board will take place first. The Presidency will follow. Whenever there are multiple candidates per country, there will be a first round vote in the GA to elect who goes to the final round.
Lorenzo Imbesi*
Kristof Vaes
João de Sá Bonelli
Luigi Ferrara
Miaosen Gong*
Ibrahim Dalkilic
Natacha Lallemand*
Sandrine Lebas
Philipp Heidkamp
Reka Matheidesz
Archana Surana*
Anna Meroni
Takayuki Higuchi
Roberto Iñiguez Flores*
Alessandra Perlatti
Michal Stefanowski
Teresa Franqueira*
Maria Luisa Rossi
*Current Board Members, CEB VIII (2022–2025)
Italy
Cumulus Executive Board Member (CEB VI, 2016-2019 and CEB VII, 2019-2022), Cumulus President (2022-2025), eligible for re-election as President
Full Professor and Sapienza Design Research Director, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Recommendation Letters, please check the list and letters here.
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Per Cumulus Statutes, only one candidate per county may be represented on the board (outside the Presidency). Therefore, In a first-round voting process, The General Assembly will decide which of the 2 candidates for France and Mexico will participate in the election process of CEB IX.
France
Academic Director, BESIGN The Sustainable Design School
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
ENSCI Les Ateliers, France
Umea University, Sweden
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France
Cumulus Executive Board Member (2022-2025)
Head of International Affairs, Professor, École Duperré Paris
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Africa Design School, Benin
L’ecole de Design Nantes, France
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Mexico
Director, Universidad de Monterrey
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Chiba University, Japan
BAU Arts and Design College of Barcelona, Spain
UDIT University of Design, Innovation and Technology, Spain
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Mexico
Cumulus Vice-President and Executive Board Member (2022-2025)
Associate Provost, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Pratt Institute, USA
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Belgium
Associate Professor, University of Antwerp
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
L’ecole de Design Nantes, France
Strate School of Design, France
Ecole Duperre, France
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Umea University, Sweden
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Brazil
Adjunct Academic Coordinator, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
DuocUC, Chile
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Aalborg University, Denmark
University of Bologna, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Chiba University, Japan
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
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Canada
Adjunct Faculty, OCAD University
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
ENSAD, France
POLIARTE, Italy
Politecnico di Milano POLIMI, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
University of Bologna UNIBO, Italy
Chiba University, Japan
TEC Monterrey, Mexico
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China
Cumulus Executive Board Member (2022-2025)
Associate Professor, School of Design, Jiangnan University
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Tongji University, China
L’ecole de Design Nantes, France
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Cyprus
Vice Rector, Assistant Professor, ARUCAD – Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
ESAIL, France
CY Cergy Paris Universite, France
Lund University, Sweden
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Germany
Cumulus Board Advisor (2022-2025), Cumulus Vice-President and Board Member (CEB VII, 2019-2022)
Vice-Dean, Tenure Professor, TH Köln, Köln International School of Design (KISD)
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Tongji University, China
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Aalto University, Finland
ENSCI, France
Chiba University, Japan
Musashino Art University, Japan
Lasalle University, Singapore
Konstfack, Sweden
Glasgow School of Design, UK
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Hungary
CEO, MOME Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Xiamen University, China
ARCH College, India
Politecnico di Milano POLIMI, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
University of Aveiro, Portugal
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India
Cumulus Vice-President and Executive Board Member (2022-2025)
Founder-Director, ARCH College of Design and Business, India
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Belgium
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Ecole Boulle, France
L’ecole de Design Nantes, France
MOME, Hungary
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
UDEM, Mexico
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Italy
Full Professor, Deputy Dean, Politecnico di Milano
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
PUC-Rio, Brazil
Tongji University, China
Aalto University, Finland
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Tecnologico di Monterrey, Mexico
University of Auckland, New Zealand
University of Aveiro, Portugal
TU Delft, The Netherlands
College for Creative Studies, USA
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Japan
Professor, Chiba University
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Hunan University, China
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The Glasgow School of Art, UK
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Poland
Professor, Head of Design Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
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Portugal
Cumulus Executive Board Member (2022-2025)
Associate Professor, University of Aveiro
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
Emily Carr University of Art+Design, Canada
PUC Chile, Chile
Tongji University, China
Aalto University, Finland
MOME, Hungary
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Kyushu University, Japan
CENTRO, Mexico
IADE Universidade Europeia, Portugal
ESDA, Spain
The Glasgow School of Art, UK
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USA
Professor and Chair Emerita, the College for Creative Studies
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Recommendation Letters provided by:
L’ecole de Design Nantes, France
The Design Village, India
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tecnologico di Monterrey, Mexico
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