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.

The Wikimedia Foundation trustees speak about their work

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

Main article: foundationsite:role/board

Name	Seat	Role	Term ends	Notes	Home wiki
Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak (User:Pundit)	Community/Affiliate	Governance Committee chair	January 1, 2025^[1]	Appointed in October 2021	Polish 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	December 31, 2025	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	October 1, 2026	Reappointed on 15 August 2023
Kathy Collins	Appointed	Vice Chair; Audit Committee chair	November 1, 2026	Appointed on 1 November 2023
Victoria Doronina (User:Victoria)	Community/Affiliate		December 31, 2027	Reappointed in December 2024	Russian Wikipedia
Lorenzo Losa (User:Laurentius)	Community/Affiliate	Vice Chair		Reappointed in December 2024	Italian Wikipedia
Christel Steigenberger (User:Kritzolina)	Community/Affiliate			Appointed in December 2024	German Wikipedia
Maciej Nadzikiewicz (User:Nadzik)	Community/Affiliate			Appointed in December 2024	Polish Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (User:Jimbo Wales)	Founder	Chair Emeritus^{[Notes 1]}	December 31, 2027^[2]	Reappointed on 8 December 2021	English Wikipedia
Luis Bitencourt-Emilio	Appointed		January 1, 2028^[3]	Appointed on 4 January 2022