Affiliations Committee/Members

The Affiliates Committee comprises volunteers selected for their enthusiasm and their skills in community organising, cross-cultural communication, reviewing bylaws, and providing governance advice for emerging organisations. There are currently 11 (eleven) voting members with terms of three years each.

Voting members of the Committee are helped by non-voting advisors. Advisors provide the Committee with on-the-ground experience, language skills, and governance advice, and are able to take part in discussions at subcommittee meetings.

Certain Wikimedia Foundation staff members support the Committee in its operations and help the Committee to function effectively. They are actively present on the Affiliations Committee's non-public mailing list and internal wiki, and may provide advice to the Committee based on their knowledge and expertise. They are not voting Committee members.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appoint liaisons to the Committee to facilitate communication and coordination between the Committee and the Board. The liaisons shall be the Committee's primary point of contact with the Board, and shall serve to update the Board on the Committee's activities and update the Committee on relevant Board activities. They may request information related to the Committee's operations as necessary to carry out their role. They are not voting Committee members.

If you'd like to be a voting member of the Committee, please leave a note on the talk page, and you'll be notified when seats become available. The last selections took place at the end of 2023, with new members joining the Committee in January 2024. The next selection is scheduled for the end of 2024, with new members joining the Committee in January 2025.

№	Photo	Name	Languages	Location (time zone)	Term ends	Role
1		Jeffrey Keefer	en-N, fr-2	United States, North America (UTC-4/UTC-5)	February 28, 2027	Chair
2		Suyash Dwivedi	hi-N, en-3, sa-2	India, South Asia (UTC+05:30)	February 28, 2027	Vice-Chair
3		Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz	pl-N, en-4, de-2	Poland/Belgium, Central Europe (UTC+1)	February 28, 2027	Secretary
4		Maor Malul	es, en-5, lad-4, pt-4, de-3, he-3, ca-3, af-2, guc-2, tr-2	Israel, Western Asia (UTC+2)	December 31, 2024
5		Aleksey Chalabyan	hy-N, ru-N, en-3	Armenia, Eastern Europe (UTC+4)	December 31, 2024
6		Mehman Ibragimov	ka-N, ru-N, tr-N, az-N, en-3	Georgia, Eastern Europe (UTC+4)	February 28, 2027
7		Harriet Henry Bayel		Ghana, West Africa (UTC)	February 28, 2027
8		Agus Damanik		Indonesia, Southeast Asia (UTC+7)	February 28, 2027
9		Mari Avetisyan	hy-N, en-3, tr-3, ru-3,	Armenia, Eastern Europe (UTC+4)	February 28, 2027

The work of the Affiliations Committee is supported by the Committee Support team of the Wikimedia Foundation.