Diversity and Inclusion Committee

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee shall consist of a Chair, the Junior Past-President as an ex-officio member, and at least four additional members. The Chair shall be appointed by the Nominations and Appointments Committee with the approval of the Board. In turn, the Chair will appoint at least four additional members, also with approval of the Board. Typically the Chair and members of the Committee will serve for three years, with members serving in staggered terms.

The Committee is responsible for creating and executing an ongoing diversity and inclusion strategy, presenting progress, plans, data, and metrics annually to the Board. Diversity and inclusion will include, but are not limited to, the issues of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, seniority, or other personal characteristics not related to ability, performance, or qualifications. The Committee is charged with ensuring that Information Theory Society events and processes are inclusive, welcoming and safe for everyone in the field of information theory and with developing and overseeing codes of conduct and best practices for all Society activities, including conferences, schools, and committees.

	Chair (01/23/20 until 12/31/22) Stark Draper University of Toronto Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 10 King's College Road Toronto, ON  M5S 3G4 Canada tel: +001.416.978.0503
	Ex-officio (01/01/21 until 12/31/21) Aylin Yener Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering Professor of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University 720 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
	Member (06/21/20 until 12/31/22) Todd P Coleman Todd P. Coleman Assistant Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Neuroscience Program Coordinated Science Laboratory Beckman Institute University of Illinois 217-333-0880
	Member (06/21/20 until 12/31/22) Vinod Prabhakaran School of Technology & Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
	Member (06/21/20 until 12/31/22) Nihar B Shah Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	Member (06/21/20 until 12/31/22) Michele Wigger Communications and Electronics Department Telecom ParisTech, LTCI 46, rue Barrault 75634 Paris Cedex 13 France Tel.: +33 1 45 81 7528