Board and Staff

Each Board member is elected by the ATypI general assembly at the annual general meeting for a three-year term. The ATypI statutes define the role of the Board and the modalities of an election. Below is the list of current Board members with their terms of office. Click on each Board member’s name for individual contact information. To write to the entire Board, contact the ATypI Secretariat.

Current Board members 

• Gerry Leonidas | UK (2004–2010, 2013–2021), President
• Jean-Baptiste Levée | France (2014–2022), Vice-President
• Jason Pamental | USA (2018–2024) Secretary
• Jo De Baerdemaeker | Belgium (2010–2022)
• Clare Bell | Ireland (2009–2022)
• Petra Černe Oven | Slovenia (2019–2025)
• Crystian Cruz | Brazil (2017–2020)
• Simon Daniels | USA (2007–2021)
• Sonja Knecht | Germany (2019–2025)
• Gloria Kondrup | USA (2019–2025)
• Linda Kudrnovská | Czech Republic (2010–2021)
• Carolina Laudon | Sweden (2018–2024)
• Bruno Maag | United Kingdom (2014–2020)
• Laura Meseguer | Spain (2017–2023)
• Yves Peters | Belgium (2017–2023)
• Thomas Phinney | USA (2004–2020)
• José Scaglione | Argentina (2007–2020)

 Recently Retired:

• Petra Weitz | Germany (2006–2018), Vice-President
• Carima El-Behairy | USA (2012–2018), Treasurer
• Eben Sorkin | USA (2011–2018)
• Pedro Amado | Portugal (2017–2019)
• Onur Yazıcıgil | Turkey (2012–2019)

Executive Director/Secretariat

Tamye Riggs | USA (2015–)

Senior Events Coordinator

Marta Zofia Myszewska | Poland (2020–)

Past Presidents

In the past, the ATypI Board was chaired by a number of distinguished personalities from the typographic field.

• Charles Peignot (President 1957–1968, †1983)
• John Dreyfus (President 1968–1973, †2002)
• Tage Bolander (President 1973–1977)
• Martin Fehle (President 1977–1992, †2008)
• Ernst-Erich Marhencke (President 1992–1995)
• Mark Batty (President 1995–2004)
• Jean François Porchez (President 2004–2007)
• John D. Berry | USA (President 2007–2013)
  
• José Scaglione | Argentina (President 2013–2017)