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Board Candidates

We are pleased to introduce the roster of candidates that are applying to serve Cumulus for CEB IX (2025–2028 term).

Meet the Candidates

Please find the candidate list organized alphabetically by country.

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.

Presidency Candidate Eligible for Re-Election
Italy

Lorenzo Imbesi*

Board Candidates Eligible for Re-Election and Election
Belgium

Kristof Vaes

Brazil

João de Sá Bonelli

Canada

Luigi Ferrara

China

Miaosen Gong*

Cyprus

Ibrahim Dalkilic

France

Natacha Lallemand*

Sandrine Lebas

Germany

Philipp Heidkamp

Hungary

Reka Matheidesz

India

Archana Surana*

Italy

Anna Meroni

Japan

Takayuki Higuchi

Mexico

Roberto Iñiguez Flores*

Alessandra Perlatti

Poland

Michal Stefanowski

Portugal

Teresa Franqueira*

USA

Maria Luisa Rossi

*Current Board Members, CEB VIII (2022–2025)

Presidency Candidates

Italy

Lorenzo Imbesi, PhD

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

Read the Candidate’s Letter of Motivation, CV and Institutional Endorsement.

Recommendation Letters, please check the list and letters here.

Watch the Candidate’s video.

Board Candidates Eligible for Re-Election and Election

The following two countries have 2 candidates standing for election and/or re-election to the Board.

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

Mexico

The candidates below automatically qualify and will be part of the pool of candidates considered in the election process of CEB IX.

Germany

Philipp Heidkamp

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)

Read the Candidate’s Letter of Motivation, CV and Institutional Endorsement.

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

Watch the Candidate’s video.

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