Board members

Current Honorary Presidents:
Tito Orlandi (since 2022)
Stephen Emmel (since 2026)

Tonio Sebastian Richter
President

Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Ägyptologisches Seminar

Sofía Torallas Tovar
President-Elect

Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton/University of Chicago

Victor Ghica
Secretary

Professor of Antiquity and Early Christian Studies, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo

Mennat-Allah El Dorry
Director, Cairo Center

Assistant Professor, Chair of Coptic Studies, Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology, American University in Cairo

Matthias Müller
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Coptic Studies

Researcher & Lecturer, University of Basel/University of Zurich

Hugo Lundhaug
Congress Secretary

Professor of Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Mary K. Farag
Member at Large (2 Terms)

Associate Professor of Early Christian Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary

Maher Eissa
Member at Large (2 Terms)

Professor of Coptology and Egyptology, Fayoum University

Florence Calament
Member at Large (1 Term)

Conservateur en chef, Département des Arts de Byzance et des Chrétientés en Orient, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Frank Feder
Member at Large (1 Term)

Senior Researcher/Group Leader of the project “Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament,” Göttingen Academy

Alin Suciu
Webmaster

Senior Researcher, Göttingen Academy/Docent in Early Christian Literature and Coptic Christianity at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki