Governance
IUNS is governed by a Council of five (5) Officers and Six (6) Council Members who are elected by the IUNS General Assembly. Please refer to the Statutes and Rules regarding the nomination and election process, roles and functions of the Council.
Council 2022-2025
Officers
Director, Food and Nutrition Division (ESN),
Food and Agriculture Organization,
Rome
Dean, College of Human Ecology
Professor, Department of Food and Nutrition
College of Human Ecology
Sookmyung Women’s University
Seoul
Korea
School of Public Health
University of Health and Allied Sciences
Hohoe
Ghana
Professor Welma Stonehouse (previous surname Oosthuizen) is a Principal Research Scientist and Research Group Leader within the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Human Health Programme. She started her career more than 30 years ago as a scientific researcher, and university lecturer and was later promoted to Associate Professor in Human Nutrition at North-West University, […]
Jacques Delarue is MD, PhD, and Professor of Nutrition at Brest University since 2000. He chairs the Department of Nutritional Sciences of the University Hospital of Brest. He obtained his MD and PhD at the University of Tours. He has been a post-doc fellow at the Institute of Physiology of Lausanne (director: Professor Eric Jéquier) under the supervision of Professor Luc Tappy. His field of research is about the […]
Council Members
Sergio Alberto Rupp de Paiva: graduate at Medicina from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1980), master’s degree (1983 to 1988) and a doctorate degree (1989 to 1995) Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP). Postdoctoral fellow at the “Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and Tufts University, Boston (1998). Full Professor […]
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition and Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She currently serves as Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition and Chief of Clinical Nutrition […]
Dr Rubina Hakeem is currently serving as the Chief Nutritionist and Head of the Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at Ziauddin University Karachi, Pakistan. She has earlier served as the Principal and Professor of Nutrition, at Raana Laiqat Ali Khan College of Home Economics, Karachi and as Professor at Taibah University, Madinah Saudi Arabia for […]
Barbara Burlingame is a scientist and professor of nutrition and food systems. She received her Ph.D. from Massey University (New Zealand) and bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis, in nutrition science and environmental toxicology. Her research expertise includes food composition, nutrient requirements, dietary assessment, biodiversity for food and nutrition, indigenous peoples’ food systems, sustainable […]
Medical Director and Chief Specialist Scientist
Burden of Disease Research Unit
South African Medical Research Council
Cape Town
South Africa
Immediate Past President
Catedrático de Nutrición
Departamento de Fisiología y Nutrición
Universidad de Navarra, Edificio de Investigación
C/Irunlarrea, 1
31008 Pamplona
Spain