The election committee hereby publishes a list of candidates for positions on the executive and board of directors that will become vacant on July 1, 2026. In addition, candidates for positions on the executives of the sections and on accreditation committees are also provided. Biographical sketches for all of these candidates will appear later in Liaison. Additional nominations are still welcome and must be supported by at least five individual members in good standing; they must be submitted in writing and received by the chair of the election committee on or before February 1, 2026.
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Three-year terms)
PRESIDENT-ELECT [President, 2027–2028; Past President, 2028–2029]
Lisa Lix, University of Manitoba
TREASURER
Lam Ho, Dalhousie University
MEETINGS COORDINATOR
Mireille Schnitzer, Université de Montréal
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Two-year terms)
ATLANTIC PROVINCES (One to be elected)
Edward Susko
Orla Murphy
QUÉBEC (Two to be elected)
Juliana Schulz
Éric Marchand
ONTARIO (Two to be elected)
Pengfei Li
Liqun Diao
Guowen Huang
Dehan Kong
MANITOBA–SASKATCHEWAN–NORTHWEST TERRITORIES–NUNAVUT (One to be elected)
Sumeet Kalia
James McVittie
Kevin McGregor
ALBERTA–BRITISH COLUMBIA–YUKON (One to be elected)
Ehsan Karim
Jiguo Cao
SECTION EXECUTIVES (Three-year terms with the exception of Survey Methods Section treasurer which is a two-year term; all president-elect positions follow with section president 2027–2028 and past-president 2028–2029)
- Actuarial Science Section President-Elect: Hong Li
- Biostatistics Section President-Elect: Tolulope Sajobi
- Business and Industrial Statistics Section President-Elect: Abbas Khalili
- Data Science and Analytics President-Elect: Pingzhao Hu, Data Science and Analytics Treasurer: Ricardo Baptista, Data Science and Analytics Secretary: Mehdi Dagdoug
- Probability Section President-Elect: Hélène Guerin, Probability Section Treasurer: Andrei Volodin
- Statistical Education Section President-Elect: Nathalie Moon
- Survey Methods Section President-Elect: François Verret, Survey Methods Section Treasurer: François (Frank) Marshall
ACCREDITATION PROGRAM COMMITTEES
ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE
(Five to be elected; three-year terms; 2026–2029)
Elmabrok Masaoud
Sunita Ghosh
Mina Aminghafaria
Mahmoud Zarepour
Fritz Pierre
ACCREDITATION APPEALS COMMITTEE
(Three to be elected; three-year terms; 2026–2029)
Johanna Neslehova
Ye (Lennon) Li
Natasha Wiebe
THE SSC ELECTION COMMITTEE 2025–2026
Erica Moodie
Maciej Augustyniak
Cindy Feng
Shojaeddin Chenouri
Rohan Alexander
Léo Belzile
Raj Srinivasan
Zeinab Mashreghi
Peter Macdonald
Derek Bingham
Changbao Wu