The Executive Committee
Photo: IDA’s Executive Committee 2025. Front row, from left: Jens Kirkelund, Laura Klitgaard (re-elected as President 2025–2028), Preben Birr-Pedersen, Nicolai Schiørring and Michella Ravn Søndergaard. Middle row, from left: Mette Beck Hansen, Bo Skovgaard Christensen, Ditte Marie Reinholdt Jensen, Malene Matthison-Hansen. Back row, from left: Olavur Spongenberg Thorup, Lars Jensen, David Odgaard Ravn, Anders Bjerg Frederiksen, Morten Thiessen and Lisa Sørensen. Annette Hou Adrian is missing from the photo.
How IDA's executive committee is elected
The Executive Committee consists of IDA's president, who is elected by the Board of Representatives, together with 14 other members with deputies who are elected by and from among the Board of Representatives’ members by proportional representation from lists of candidates.
See the members of the Executive Committee and their contact details
The Executive Committee - contact data and other positions
The tasks of the executive committee
The executive committee works to:
- Establish frameworks and guidelines for the society.
- Make decisions on issues concerning the society’s policies.
- Decide on fundamental and general matters.
- Assume overall control of the society on behalf of the Board of Representatives.
- Prepare IDA’s budget for approval by the Board of Representatives.
- Agree on goals and frameworks, and prepare budgets for regional and professional work.
- Deal with matters relating to pay, employment and pension conditions for those members not covered by membership categories 1-4.
The Executive Committee is also responsible for the political harmonisation and coordination of the work relating to appointing committees, etc., including the relevant parts of the society involved in drawing up and implementing policies.