We are excited to share the results of the 2025 Strategic Management Society (SMS) elections! All leaders listed below will begin their terms on January 1, 2026.
Please join us in congratulating the following distinguished individuals:
SMS Board Directors-at-Large
- Sekou Bermiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Samina Karim, Northeastern University
- Catherine Maritan, Syracuse University
We also extend our sincere gratitude to Riitta Katila, outgoing Board Director-at-Large, for her invaluable contributions and dedication over the past three years.
In addition to Board elections, the SMS Leadership Elections included positions for Interest Group and Community (IG&C) leadership. Please join us in congratulating the following individuals:
Behavioral Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Daniela Blettner (Simon Fraser University)
- Representative-at-Large: Joon Mahn Lee (Seoul National University), David Maslach (Florida State University), & Jisoo Park (Clark University)
Competitive Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Jan Ross (University of Groningen)
- Representative-at-Large: Niloofar Abolfathi (Singapore Management University), Carlos Inoue (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), & Hyo Kang (Seoul National University)
Cooperative Strategies
- Associate Program Chair: Pankaj Kumar (Virginia Tech)
- Representative-at-Large: Shiv Devarakonda (Nanyang Technological University), Anna Minà (LUMSA University), & Louis Mulotte (Tilburg University, NL)
Corporate Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown University)
- Representative-at-Large: Charlotte Ren (University of Pennsylvania), Maria Roche (Harvard Business School), & Marco Testoni (University of Miami)
Entrepreneurship and Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Colleen Cunningham (University of Utah)
- Representative-at-Large: Aldona Kapacinskaite (INSEAD), Amisha Miller (NYU Stern), & Sandeep Pillai (Tulane University)
Global Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Charles Stevens (Rutgers University)
- Representative-at-Large: Xuchang Chen (University of Reading), Patricio Duran (University of Richmond), & Yejee Lee (Auburn University)
Knowledge and Innovation
- Associate Program Chair: George Chondrakis (Esade Business School)
- Representative-at-Large: Larisa Cioaca (Tulane University), Charlotte Jacobs (Louisiana State University), & Sukhun Kang (UC Santa Barbara)
Stakeholder Strategy
- Associate Program Chair: Kate Odziemkowska (University of Toronto)
- Representative-at-Large: Narae Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)), François Neville (McMaster University), & Steve Sauerwald (University of Houston)
Strategic Human Capital
- Associate Program Chair: Federica De Stefano (University of Oxford)
- Representative-at-Large: Thorsten Grohsjean (Bocconi University), Kylie Hwang (Northwestern University), & Danny Kim (University of Pennsylvania)
Strategic Leadership and Governance
- Associate Program Chair: Ryan Krause (University of Iowa)
- Representative-at-Large: Radina R. Blagoeva (University of Georgia), Priyanka Dwivedi (Texas A&M University), & Jason Ridge (University of Arkansas)
Strategy Practice
- Associate Program Chair: Renate Kratochvil (Stockholm School of Economics)
- Representative-at-Large: Maria Andrea De Villa (EAFIT University), Josh Morton (University of Leeds), & Winky Wu (University of Oxford)
Strategy Process
- Associate Program Chair: Joachim Stonig (University of St. Gallen)
- Representative-at-Large: Chris Golding (University of Reading), Heinrich-Jakob Wild (University of St. Gallen), & Jacqueline You (University of York)
- Single-Year Representative-at-Large: Alexander Alexiev
Research Methods Community
- Associate Program Chair: Joseph Harrison (University of Tennessee – Knoxville)
- Representative-at-Large: Min Jung Kim (Korea University), Jacqueline ‘Jax’ Kirtley (University of Pennsylvania), & Charlotte Ren (University of Pennsylvania)
Teaching Community
- Associate Program Chair: Sabine Reisinger (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- Representative-at-Large: Julia DeVoy (Boston College), Larissa Marchiori Pacheco (Northeastern University), & Stephanie Phipps (Oklahoma State University)
- Global Representative-at-Large: Angélique Voltaire (ESCP Business School Paris)
