Audio Engineering Society Announces Results of 2025 Elections

In the AES Elections for the Board of Governors (BoG), the following have been elected/re-elected as regional Vice Presidents: Kelvin Grimble, VP Central Region USA & Canada; Huseyin Hacihabiboglu, VP Southern Europe/Middle East/Africa Region; Piotr Majdak, VP Central Region, Europe; Ezequiel Morfi, VP Latin America Region; and Masataka Nakahara, VP Asia-Pacific Region. Additionally, newly elected as at-large Governors are Bernarda Ubidia, Jamie Baker and Fariuska Lira Barully. AES Members also ratified the four AES Bylaws amendments proposals presented on the ballot.

Save for the President-Elect and Treasurer, each newly elected individual will serve a two-year term. Cesar Lamschtein will serve on the AES Board of Directors as President-Elect in 2026, in 2027 as President, in 2028 as Past-President, followed by two years as a Governor. Jayant Datta will serve on the AES Board of Directors as Treasurer-Elect in 2026, and as Treasurer in 2027 and 2028. All those newly elected will begin their terms on January 1, 2026.

Also on January 1, 2026, current Past-President Leslie Gaston-Bird will transition to Governor for the first year of a two-year term. Beginning one-year terms will be President Gary Gottlieb, who will transition to Past-President, and President-Elect Brecht De Man, who will become President. Exiting the Board of Governors at that time will be Bill Schulenberg, Director and VP Central Region, USA/Canada; Jorge Azama, VP Latin American Region; Ewa Lukasik, Central Region, Europe; Kazuhiko Kawahara, VP Asia-Pacific Region; and Governors Lenise Bent, Mary Mazurek, Josh Reiss, and Jiayue Cecilia Wu

The 2026 Audio Engineering Society Board of Directors will be: