Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees ("Board" or "BoT") oversees the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, as its ultimate corporate authority.

Structure

The Board was formed in 2003 with three Trustees, and since 2020 consists of up to 16 Trustees. It appoints officers from the Trustees: a Chair, up to two Vice Chairs, and committee chairs. The Board appoints non-Trustee officers: a Chief Executive Officer, a Treasurer, and Secretary. The work of the Board partly involves resolutions and votes. Other work is delegated to a number of committees covering matters such as Governance, Audit, Talent and Culture, the Product and Technology Committee and the Community Affairs Committee.

The current membership composition of the Board is:

• 1 (one) founder's seat reserved for Jimmy Wales;
• 7 (seven) seats appointed by the rest of the Board for specific expertise selected in a process guided by the Board Governance Committee; and
• 8 (eight) seats elected by the Wikimedia communities and affiliates.

Committees

• Wikimedia Foundation Audit Committee (Charter)
• Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee (Charter)
• Wikimedia Foundation Talent & Culture Committee (Charter)
• Wikimedia Foundation Product and Technology Committee (Charter)
• Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee (Charter)
• Affiliations Committee (Charter)
  • Current liaisons: Lorenzo Losa, Mike Peel, Nataliia Tymkiv
• Elections Committee
  • Current liaisons: Nataliia Tymkiv
• Language committee (Charter)
  • Current liaison: Nataliia Tymkiv, Victoria Doronina
• Wikimedia Human Rights Policy
  • Current liaison: Esra'a Al Shafei (to Wikimedia Foundation internal committee)

Contacting the Board

There is a Board noticeboard for sharing requests and recommendations. The Board can be contacted directly by posting to the noticeboard. The Wikimedia Foundation itself can be contacted in a number of ways as outlined on their contact page.

Current members

Photo	Name	Seat	Role	Term ends	Notes	Home wiki
	Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak (User:Pundit)	Community/Affiliate	Governance Committee chair	January 1, 2025	Appointed in October 2021	Polish Wikipedia
	Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:Rosiestep)	Community/Affiliate		January 1, 2025	Appointed in October 2021	English Wikipedia
	Victoria Doronina (User:Victoria)	Community/Affiliate			Appointed in October 2021	Russian Wikipedia
	Lorenzo Losa (User:Laurentius)	Community/Affiliate	Vice Chair		Appointed in October 2021	Italian Wikipedia
	Nataliia Tymkiv (User:NTymkiv (WMF))	Appointed	Chair	November 1, 2025	Appointed on 23 March 2022	Ukrainian Wikipedia
	Mike Peel (User:Mike Peel)	Community/Affiliate		December 31, 2025	Appointed in December 2022	English Wikipedia
	Shani Evenstein Sigalov (User:Shani (WMF))	Community/Affiliate	Community Affairs Committee chair		Reappointed in December 2022	Hebrew Wikipedia
	Esra'a Al Shafei	Appointed	Product and Technology Committee chair	October 1, 2026	Reappointed on 15 August 2023
	Raju Narisetti	Appointed	Talent and Culture Committee chair		Reappointed on 15 August 2023
	Kathy Collins	Appointed	Vice Chair; Audit Committee chair	November 1, 2026	Appointed on 1 November 2023
	Jimmy Wales (User:Jimbo Wales)	Founder	Chair Emeritus	December 31, 2027	Reappointed on 8 December 2021	English Wikipedia
	Luis Bitencourt-Emilio	Appointed		January 1, 2028	Appointed on 4 January 2022

Notes:

Former members

See also: History of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Further reading

• List of Board meetings (with minutes)
• List of Board resolutions
• Board deliberations process
• Composition of the Board of Trustees
• Presentations by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members
• Essays and discussions on ideal membership:
  • What makes a good Trustee?
  • Traits of a great Wikimedia Foundation Trustee
  • The ideal Wikimedia board of trustees
  • Ideal candidate profile (2019)