IACR Board of Directors (2024)
The bylaws describe the composition of the board of directors. Its members are either elected by the membership or appointed by the board of directors. The numbers in parentheses give the terms of service in calendar years.
The steering committee representatives listed on the Committees and Special Roles page participate as observers in the meetings of the board of directors.
If you are a member and wish to contact IACR regarding your membership or similar matter, you should contact IACR membership services.
Officers
Officers and directors are elected for three-year terms.
Michel Abdalla
President (2023-2025)
Nexus
855 El Camino Real Ste 13A #149
Palo Alto, CA 94301
United States Email:
Allison Bishop
Vice President (2023-2025)
Proof Trading
176 Broadway #15D
New York, NY 10038
United States Email:
Brian LaMacchia
Treasurer (2023-2025)
IACR
14150 NE 20th Street
Ste F-1 #406
Bellevue, WA 98007
USA Email:
Benjamin Wesolowski
Secretary (2023-2025)
UMPA UMR CNRS 5669
ENS Lyon Site Monod
46 Allée d'Italie
69364 Lyon Cedex 07
France Email:
Directors
Jian Guo
Director (2025-2027)
Nanyang Technological University
21 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637371 Tel: +65 65148399
Email:
Anna Lysyanskaya
Director (2025-2027)
Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
USA Tel: +1 401 863 7600
Fax: +1 401 863 7657
Email:
Bart Preneel
Director (2023-2025)
KU Leuven
Dept. Electrical Engineering-ESAT/COSIC
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 Bus 2452, B-3001
Leuven
BELGIUM Tel: +32 16 32 11 48
Email:
Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
Director (2024-2026)
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
UAE
Email:
Peter Schwabe
Director (2023-2025)
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Universitätsstraße 140
44799 Bochum
Germany & Digital Security Group
Radboud University
PO Box 9010
6500 GL Nijmegen
The Netherlands Tel: +31243652031
Email:
Bo-Yin Yang
Director (2025-2027)
No 128, Academia Road, Section 2
Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1731
Fax:886-2-2782-4814
Email:
Moti Yung
Director (2024-2026)
Google LLC and Columbia University
Computer Science Department
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
USA Tel: +1 212 939 7022
Email:
Other Board Members
The general chairs of the IACR general conferences (Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt) are appointed as members of the board in the year before the conference. Their terms of service expire at the end of the calendar year of the conference.
Foteini Baldimtsi
Communications Secretary (2023-2025)
CS Department
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA Email:
Edoardo Persichetti
Eurocrypt 2026 General Chair (2025-2026)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 (USA) Email:
Bertram Poettering
Membership Secretary (2023-2025)
IBM Research GmbH
Säumerstrasse 4
CH–8803 Rüschlikon
Switzerland Email:
Vincent Rijmen
Journal of Cryptology Editor-in-Chief (2024-2026)
KU Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - bus 2452
3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Tel: +3216321068
Email:
Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
Crypto 2025 General Chair (2024-2025)
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
UAE
Email:
Mayank Varia
Crypto 2026 General Chair (2025-2026)
Boston University
Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
655 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215 Email:
