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 (2014–2019), Vice-President
• Thomas Phinney | USA (2004–2020), Secretary
• Pedro Amado | Portugal (2017–2020)
• Jo De Baerdemaeker | Belgium (2010–2019)
• Clare Bell | Ireland (2009–2019)
• Crystian Cruz | Brazil (2017–2020)
• Simon Daniels | USA (2007–2021)
• Linda Kudrnovská | Czech Republic (2010–2021)
• Carolina Laudon | Sweden (2018–2021)
• Bruno Maag | United Kingdom (2014–2020)
• Laura Meseguer | Spain (2017–2020)
• Jason Pamental | USA (2018–2021)
• Yves Peters | Belgium (2017–2020)
• José Scaglione | Argentina (2007–2020)
• Onur Yazıcıgil | Turkey (2012–2019)

• Petra Weitz | Germany (2006–2019), Vice-President (retiring 2018)
• Carima El-Behairy | USA (2012–2018), Treasurer (retiring 2018)
• Eben Sorkin | USA (2011–2018) (retiring 2018)

Executive Director/Secretariat

Tamye Riggs | USA (2015–)

Senior Events Coordinator

Liron Lavi Turkenich | Israel (2016–)

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, current Honorary President)
• Jean François Porchez (President 2004–2007, current Honorary President)
• John D. Berry | USA (President 2007–2013, current Honorary President)
  
• José Scaglione | Argentina (President 2013–2017, current Honorary President)