Council
The Council consists of the President, President-Elect, Immediate Past-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Student Representative, Editor of Economic Botany (Ex-officio), Editor of the Newsletter (Ex-officio) and six members-at-large listed below. A student representative-elect may attend Council meetings.
| Term expires 2025 | Term expires 2026 | Term expires 2026 |
| Rosalina Diaz Medgar Evers College Brooklyn, NY |
David Picking University of the West Indies Kingston, Jamaica |
Thomas Brendlar Plantaphile Collingswood, NJ |
| Catherine Lukhoba University of Nairobi Kenya |
Anju Sehgal National Institute of Technology India |
Maria Fadiman Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL |
| Char Farfadet Texas A&M University College Station, TX |
Ex-Officio Council Members
Editor: Ina Vandebroek
Book Review Editor: Wendy Applequist
Newsletter Editor: Trish Flaster
Student Representative-Elect: Savannah Anez
| Past Council Members | |||
| 2021-2024 | Irene Teixidor Toneu | Alexandra Town | Douglas Ochora |
| 2020-2023 | Orou Gaoue | Olwen Grace | Ella Vardeman |
| 2019-2022 | Anna Waldstein | Lukas Pawera | Betsabé D. Castro Escobar |
| 2018-2021 | John de La Parra | Lisa Offringa | Karsten Fatur |
| 2017-2020 | Narel Paniagua | Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque | |
| 2016-2019 | Jillian de Gezelle | Zybnek Polesny | Susanne Masters |
| 2015-2018 | Steven Casper | Sonia Peters | Darach Lupton |
| 2014-2017 | Patrick Van Damme | Heike Vibrans | Sandra Bogdanova |
| 2013-2016 | Manuel Pardo de Santayana | Renata Söukand | John de la Parra |
| 2012-2015 | Steven Casper | Nanci Ross | Annie Virnig |
| 2011-2014 | Kim Bridges | Edelmira Linares Mazari | |
| 2010-2013 | Ina Vandebroek | Cassandra Quave | |
| 2009-2012 | Linda Lyon | Jeanine Pfeiffer | |
| 2008-2011 | Rainer Bussmann | Sarah Khan | Laura Weiss Shiels |
| 2007-2010 | Maria Fadiman | My Lien Nguyen | |
| 2006-2009 | Mary Eubanks | Rick Stepp | |
| 2005-2008 | Tamara Ticktin | Christian Vogl | |
| 2004-2007 | Eve Esmshwiller | Mark Nesbitt | Heather McMillan |
| 2003-2006 | Julia Kornegay | Mary Eubanks | Tim Motley |
| 2002-2005 | Janis Alcorn | ||
| 2001-2004 | Steve McLaughlin | Nancy Turner | Javier Caballero |
| 2000-2003 | Gayle Fritz | Jim Miller | |
| 1999-2002 | Kamaljit Bawa | Gary Martin | |
| 1998-2001 | Catherine Cotton | Will McClatchey | Nat Bletter |
| 1997-2000 | Steven King | Deena Decker-Walters | |
| 1996-1999 | Peter Lapinskas | Charlotte Gyllenhaal | Oliver Phillips |
| 1995-1998 | Bradley C. Bennett | Michael Causaus | |
| 1995-1996 | Brian M. Boom | ||
| 1994-1997 | Christine Padoch | Trish Flaster | |
| 1993-1996 | Daniel F. Austin | Memory P. Elvin-Lewis | |
| 1992-1995 | Robert A. Bye, Jr. | Jan Salick | |
| 1991-1994 | Laura C. Merrick | Gary P. Nabhan | |
| 1991-1993 | A. Douglas Kinghorn | ||
| 1991-1992 | Michael J. Balick | ||
| 1990-1993 | Janis B. Alcorn | Paul Alan Cox | |
| 1989-1992 | D. Doel Soejarto | Richard I. Ford | |
| 1988-1991 | Peter K. Bretting | John Rashford | |
| 1987-1990 | Charlotte Gyllenhaal | Michael J. Balick | |
| 1986-1989 | H. Ronald Hurov | Walter H. Lewis | |
| 1985-1988 | Mary Eubanks | Richard S. Felger | |
| 1984-1987 | Robert A. Bye, Jr. | Lawrence Kaplan | |
| 1983-1986 | John M. Kingsbury | Michael J. Balick | |
| 1983-1985 | W. Hardy Eshbaugh | ||
| 1982-1985 | Gail E. Wagner | J. Giles Waines | |
| 1981-1984 | Lawrence Kaplan | Robert A. Bye, Jr. | |
| 1980-1983 | Judith L. Bolyard | Hugh D. Wilson | |
| 1979-1982 | Susan Verhoek | Gregory J. Anderson | |
| 1978-1981 | H. Garrison Wilkes | Abraham D. Krikorian | |
| 1977-1980 | Jerry L. McLaughlin | John H. Beaman | |