Executive Director
As part of IPSA’s organizational reform, the position of Executive Director was created in 2020 to replace that of Secretary-General. This move aimed at further professionalizing IPSA and ensuring managerial continuity at the Secretariat. Dr. Kim Fontaine-Skronski thus became the first woman to lead the IPSA Secretariat.
![Kim Fontaine-Skronski](/sites/default/files/page/Secretariat/Kim%20Fontaine-Skronski_web.jpg)
(2020-)
Former Secretaries-General
![Guy Lachapelle](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/guy_lachapelle_n0623.jpg)
Concordia University
(2000-2020)
![John Coakley](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/coakley_john_2014.jpg)
University College Dublin
(1994-2000)
![Jean Laponce](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/kjellberg.jpg)
University of Oslo
(1988-1994)
![John Trent](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/trent_john_sec._geun.jpg)
University of Ottawa
(1976-1988)
![André Philippart](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/philippart_andreu.jpg)
Carnegie Endowment
(1967-1976)
![Serge Hurtig](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/hurtig_serge_sec._geun.jpg)
FNSP, Paris
(1960-1967)
![John Goormaghtigh](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/goormaghtigh.jpg)
Brussels
(1955-1960)
![Jean Meynaud](/sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/meynaud_j.jpg)
FNSP, Paris
(1950-1955)
![François Goguel](https://www.ipsa.org//sites/default/files/page/Secretary_Generals/f._goguel.jpg)
FNSP, Paris
(1949-1950)