2025 ELECTION: RESULTS
The ballots for the 2025 election were dispatched on 15 March 2025 to all IPA members in good standing. The deadline for receipt of ballot papers or to vote online was 23:59 BST/UTC+1 on 30 April 2025. The results were communicated to all candidates on 7 May 2025.
Please click here to view a report outlining the results of the election for the Regional Board Representatives. The regional Board Representatives will take office at the close of the IPA Business Meeting that will be held in Lisbon on Thursday 31 July 2025.
Please click on the links below to read the position statements of the elected candidates.
Board Representatives for Europe (to take office in July 2025)
ENGLISH I FRENCH I GERMAN I SPANISH
Athanasios Alexandridis (Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society)
Bernard Cullen (British Psychoanalytic Society)
Gabriella Giustino (Italian Psychoanalytical Society)
Ewa Glod (Polish Psychoanalytical Society)
Dace Sortland (Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society)
Ellen Sparer (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Martin Teising (German Psychoanalytical Association)
Board Representatives for Latin America (to take office in July 2025):
ENGLISH | SPANISH
Daniel Delouya (Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo)
Magdalena Filgueira (Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association)
Gabriela Goldstein (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association)
Olga Santa Maria (Mexican Psychoanalytic Association)
Sergio Nick (Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro)
Maria Pia Costa Santonalla (Peru Psychoanalytic Society)
Mónica Vorchheimer (Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association)
Board Representatives for North America (to take office in July 2025):
ENGLISH | FRENCH
Soh Agatsuma (Japan Psychoanalytic Society)
Richard Fritsch (APsA)
William Glover (APsA)
Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society)
Maria Nardone (APsA)
Dionne Powell (APsA)
Leigh Tobias (Psychoanalytic Center of California)
The IPA Procedural Code document Rules, Limits and Procedures for IPA Elections can be found here. Appendix 4 presents the “Guidelines for the Conduct of Election Campaigns and the Mandate of the Elections Committee”.
Notes
Definition of ‘In Good Standing’:
The expression ‘in good standing’ shall apply:
a. to those Constituent Organizations from which the IPA has received the dues of all their Members in full by 31 December for any calendar year, or
b. to those Members of Constituent Organizations from whom the IPA has received their dues in full by 31 December for any calendar year, or
c. to those Direct Members from whom the IPA has received their dues in full by 31 December for any calendar year, or
d. to any Constituent Organizations or Direct Members who received and complied with special payment arrangements agreed with the Treasurer, whereby some or all of their dues for the calendar year or any prior years are not yet payable on 31 December. A Constituent Organization which does not comply with special payment terms agreed with the Treasurer will not be regarded as ‘in good standing’.
* As in previous years, Civica Election Services (CES) has been appointed to conduct these Elections independently and impartially on behalf of the IPA. CES is the world's leading provider of election services with over 100 years' experience of administering elections and ballot processes.
** IPA Procedural Code on Elections