IAFOR is delighted to welcome three new members to the International Academic Board (IAB). Our Academic Board is an important forum designed to support IAFOR’s Board, to listen and learn from its members, and to advise on its future planning. The IAB offers new ideas and formats for conferences and associated initiatives, including developing our Global Fellowship Programme, creating opportunities for doctoral and early career academics to network, and in exchanging knowledge as part of its international community. Our three new members are: Dr Susana Barreto, University of Porto, Portugal; Professor Evangelia Chrysikou, University College London, United Kingdom; and Professor Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University, South Korea. They have all been part of IAFOR’s community for some years, and their engagement, individual and collective insights, and experience will undoubtedly assist us in shaping our future activities.
- A message from Professor Anne Boddington, IAFOR Provost and Chair of the IAB
Dr Susana Barreto
University of Porto, Portugal
Dr Susana Barreto is a researcher at LUME: Unexpected Media Lab and Associate Professor of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal. In recent years, Dr Barreto has been involved in research projects focused on preserving specialised knowledge at risk of disappearance, specifically those embedded in the experiences of retired professors, artists, researchers, and practitioners in the arts, crafts, and design. Her research interests focus on the role of ethics in visual communication, design and crime, design culture, visual methodologies, and visual/history collections.
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou
University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou is a registered architect and senior research fellow at University College London, United Kingdom. She owns the award-winning SynThesis Architects (London – Athens), which specialises in medical facilities. Her work has received prestigious awards (Singapore 2009, Kuala Lumpur 2012, Brisbane 2013, Birmingham 2014, London 2014). Parallel activities include teaching at medical and architectural schools, research (United Kingdom, France, Belgium, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Greece, and the Middle East) and advising. She advised the Hellenic Secretary of Health and is the author of the new national guidelines for mental health facilities in Greece. Dr Chrysikou is the author of the book ‘Architecture for Psychiatric Environments and Therapeutic Spaces’, healthcare architecture editor, reviewer, active member of several professional and scientific associations and a TED-MED speaker. She is a Trustee, Member of the Board, and Director of Research at DIMHN, United Kingdom) and Member of the Board at the Scholar’s Association Onassis Foundation.
Professor Brendan Howe
Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Professor Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, where he has also served two terms as Associate Dean and Department Chair. He is currently the President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, and has been elected to serve as the President of the World International Studies Committee from July, 2025. He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the East-West Center as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow (United States), the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), De La Salle University (Philippines), The University of Sydney (Australia), Korea National Defence University (South Korea), Georgetown University (United States), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Malaysia), and Beijing Foreign Studies University (China).
Educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and Georgetown University (United States), his ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development, comprehensive peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, or edited around 150 related publications, including Comprehensive Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula (Springer, 2023), Society and Democracy in South Korea and Indonesia (Palgrave, 2022), The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers (Lexington Books, 2021), UN Governance: Peace and Human Security in Cambodia and Timor-Leste (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development (Routledge, 2018), National Security, State Centricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).
