Our Board

The Corporate Committee is dedicated to recruiting and serving the IGS’ corporate members. The committee is constantly looking at new ways to structure corporate membership to best align with industry’s corporations and their goals.

Committee Lead
Kent P. von Maubeuge
NAUE GmbH & Co. KG

The Communications Committee is dedicated to developing and disseminating news and information to the IGS membership. The committee is actively engaged in developing the IGS newsletter and the IGS website.

Committee Lead
Sam Allen
TRI/Environmental Inc.

The Education Committee is dedicated to growing IGS membership by providing educational material such as webinars, one-pagers and videos to members of the IGS community. A primary focus for the Education Committee is the Educate the Educators (ETE) program. The committee plans ETE programs throughout the world to help university professors understand the benefits and purpose of geosynthetics and insert them into their curriculum.

Committee Lead
Takeshi Katsumi
Kyoto University

The Young Members Operating Committee is focused on promoting young members’ participation at regional/chapter levels and at all levels within the IGS. A primary focus for the Committee is to develop a network to support student members and young members at the university level and their transition into the world of employment, by connecting them to corporate members of the IGS for possible employment opportunities or further research work opportunities.

Committee Lead
Dawie Marx

The African Regional Activities Committee (African-RAC) is dedicated to promoting the use of geosynthetics in Africa through the establishment of IGS chapters and dissemination of geosynthetics information.

Committee Lead
Edoardo Zannoni
Maccaferri S.A. (Pty) Ltd.

The mission of the Asian Regional Activities Committee Asian (RAC) is to facilitate the advancement of knowledge and technology related to geosynthetics through education, research and technology transfer in the Asia Pacific Region.

Committee Lead
Professor Chiwan Hsieh
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology

The mission of the European Regional Activities Committee (European-RAC) is to promote appropriate use of geosynthetics through the dissemination of knowledge about geosynthetics, and to support the co-ordination of activities conducted by IGS chapters in European countries.

Committee Lead
Dr. Martin Ziegler
Geotechnik im Bauwesen, RWTH Aachen

The mission of the European Regional Activities Committee (European-RAC) is to promote appropriate use of geosynthetics through the dissemination of knowledge about geosynthetics, and to support the co-ordination of activities conducted by IGS chapters in European countries.

Committee Lead
Dr. Martin Ziegler
Geotechnik im Bauwesen, RWTH Aachen