Board of Trustees

2025 - 2027 Board

President

Melissa Sanchez Herrera
president@worlddragonfly.org

Museum Research and Collections - University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Fundacion Mayu Suyana, Director
Bogotá, Colombia

President-elect

M. Olalla Lorenzo-Carballa
president-elect@worlddragonfly.org

Facultad de Biología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, España

Immediate Past President

Kendra Abbott

Department of Biology & Communication and Information Science
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Treasurer

Peter Brown
secretary@worlddragonfly.org

United Kingdom

Secretary

Jenilee Montes Fontalvo
secretary@worlddragonfly.org

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola - Universidad Central de Venezuela
Maracay, Venezuela

Managing Editor, International Journal of Odonatology

John Abbott
ijo@worlddragonfly.org

Museum Research and Collections
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Congress Coordinator

David Sparrow
congress-coordinator@worlddragonfly.org

Cyprus Dragonfly Study Group 
Paphos, Cyprus

Editor, Agrion Newsletter

Keith Wilson
agrion@worlddragonfly.org

Brighton, United Kingdom

Trustees

Christopher Beatty

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

Kehinde Kemabonta

Department of Zoology
University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria

Grant Coordinator

Kawsar Khan
grants@worlddragonfly.org

Department of Biology
Freire University Berlin
Berlin, Germany/Bangladesh

Social Media Team

social-media@worlddragonfly.org

Mayra Sáenz Oviedo

Universidad Central
Bogotá, Colombia

Katherine Montana

American Museum of Natural History
City University of New York Graduate Center
New York, USA

Marrissa Miller

Sherratt Lab - Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
SAiVE Lab - University of Ottawa/Purdue University
Ottawa, Canada/Lafayette, USA

Webmaster

Yiselle Cano Cobos
webmaster@worlddragonfly.org

BioGeA - Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Historia Natural - Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia

2025 - 2027 Board

Melissa Sanchez Herrera

Museum Research and Collections - University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Fundacion Mayu Suyana, Director
Bogotá, Colombia

M. Olalla Lorenzo-Carballa

Facultad de Biología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, España

Immediate Past President

Kendra Abbott

Department of Biology & Communication and Information Science
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Treasurer

Peter Brown

United Kingdom

Jenilee Montes Fontalvo

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola - Universidad Central de Venezuela
Maracay, Venezuela

Managing Editor
International Journal of Odonatology

ijo@worlddragonfly.org

John Abbott

Museum Research and Collections
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Editor
Agrion Newsletter

agrion@worlddragonfly.org

Keith Wilson

Brighton, United Kingdom

David Sparrow

Cyprus Dragonfly Study Group 
Paphos, Cyprus

Grant Coordinator

grants@worlddragonfly.org

Kawsar Khan

Department of Biology
Freire University Berlin
Berlin, Germany/Bangladesh

Trustees

Christopher Beatty

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

Kehinde Kemabonta

Department of Zoology
University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria

Mayra Sáenz Oviedo

Universidad Central
Bogotá, Colombia

Katherine Montana

American Museum of Natural History
City University of New York Graduate Center
New York, USA

Marrissa Miller

Sherratt Lab - Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
SAiVE Lab - University of Ottawa/Purdue University
Ottawa, Canada/Lafayette, USA

Yiselle Cano Cobos

BioGeA - Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda
Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Historia Natural - Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia