Elizabeth Lanza, 4 year term (2011 – 2015): Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo and Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan.

Her research interests in bilingualism/multilingualism draw specifically on perspectives from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. She has published on identity in migrant narratives, language socialisation of bilingual children, language ideology, linguistic landscape, language policy, and research methodology. She is on the Editorial Board of the journals International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), Multilingual Margins (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), as well as the book series IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society (John Benjamins). She has attended all of the ISB conferences since the beginning and organised ISB8 in Oslo in June 2011. She was elected member of the Steering Committee in 2007 and was elected Chair in 2011.

Durk Gorter, 4 year term 2011-2015: Ikerbasque research professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. He does research on multilingual education, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes.

Until 2007 he was head of the department of social sciences at the Fryske Akademy in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands and also part-time full professor at the University of Amsterdam in the sociolinguistics of Frisian. He has been involved in survey studies of the Frisian language and the analysis of language policy. He also carried out comparative studies of European minority languages, in the context of the Mercator-Education project.

 Elected Members:

Margaret Deuchar (2013- 2015) is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University and Affiliated Lecturer in the Dept of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.  Professor Deuchar did the first study of British Sign Language as her PhD and then moved on to work on language differentiation in developing bilingual children and  code-switching in bilingual adults.  She was founding Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University and headed the corpus-based group which collected three corpora of bilingual conversation (see bangortalk.org.uk)

LI Wei

2 year term as past ISB organiser (2013-2015): Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Chair of ISB9 local organising committee.

2 year term as current ISB organizer (2013-2017). Professor of Linguistics in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics department , Rutgers University. Chair of ISB10 local organizing committee. His primary research focuses on Spanish bilingual and monolingual syntax.