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EASE Council 2025-2027

EASE is managed by a Council of 10 members. The editor of the Association’s journal European Science Editing and the Past-President are also ex-officio members of Council.

The Council is elected every two years. The Council for 2025-27 was announced during the General Assembly at the 18th EASE Conference on 14 May 2025.

Bahar Mehmani

President

AI Market Research Strategist EASE President, ElsevierThe Netherlands

Dr. Bahar Mehmani is AI market research strategist at Elsevier. She leads structured AI Market Research studies for Elsevier AI products, helping measure product performance against clear hypotheses, metrics, and external reference points, while translating findings into actionable insights for product and senior leadership. Bahar is an advisory member of Peer Review Congress. She is currently President of EASE.

Iva Grabarić Andonovski

Vice President

Editor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Food Technology and Biotechnology journalCroatia

Editor of Food Technology and Biotechnology with over 20 years of experience in scientific publishing. EASE Vice President from 2023-27, Chair of EASE Croatian Regional Chapter, and Co-Chair of Environment and Sustainability Committee. Active in Croatian scientific community as one of the founders and currently the President of Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), member of HRČAK (Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals) Advisory Board, and Organizing committee member of PUBMET Conference on Scholarly Communication.

Are Brean

Vice President

Editor in Chief, Journal of The Norwegian Medical AssociationNorway

Mary Hodgson

Treasurer and Company Secretary

Secretary, Treasurer and Company Secretary, European Association of Science EditorsUnited Kingdom

Mary is the secretary of EASE. She supports Council, the special interest committees and the regional chapters, and is responsible for all the administration and membership services of the Association.

Iryna IzarovaUkraineRead more

Phill JonesUnited KingdomRead more

Duncan NicholasUnited KingdomRead more

Jason RobertsCanadaRead more

Sigmar de Mello RodeBrazilRead more

Ali ŞahinTurkeyRead more

Jo WixonUnited KingdomRead more

Ex-officio Council members

Cem Uzun

Past-President

Chair of the department of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, Koç University School of Medicine, IstanbulTurkey

Cem has served on EASE Council since 2018, as Vice President for 2021-2023 as President for 2023-25 and now as Past-President. He initiated and chaired the EASE Turkish Regional Chapter until February 2022, chaired the Regional Chapter Programme Committee and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of European Science Editing.

Ksenija Baždarić

Editor-in-Chief, European Science Editing

Associate Professor, Rijeka University, Faculty of Health StudiesCroatia