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The Wikimedia Foundation '''Board of Trustees''' oversees the foundation and its work, as its [[Bylaws#Section 1. General Powers.|ultimate corporate authority]].

== Structure ==
The Board was formed in 2003 with three Trustees, and now consists of up to [[#Current members|ten Trustees]]. Its work is captured in part in [[Resolutions|resolutions]] and votes.
It appoints four officers: a [[Chair]] and Vice Chair (who have to be Trustees), and a [[Treasurer]] and [[Secretary]] (who do not). Other work is delegated to its committees, including Board Governance, Audit, and Human Resources committees.

[[Board of Trustees/Restructure Announcement|Since 2008]], the Board has seats for ten Trustees:
* one founder's seat (reserved for [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]);
* two seats selected by the [[Wikimedia chapters]] and [[m:Wikimedia thematic organizations|thematic organizations]];
* three seats nominated by the [[m:Community|Wikimedia community]]; and
* four seats appointed by the rest of the Board for specific expertise

== Contacting the Board ==
A Board [[m:WMF Board portal|portal]] and [[m:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard|noticeboard]] on Meta offer recent updates and a place to share requests and recommendations. To contact the Foundation, see our [[Contact us|contact information]]. To contact the Board directly, post to the noticeboard, or write to {{nowrap|1=WMFboard{{@}}wikimedia.org}}.

== Current members ==

=== Christophe Henner ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = right
| name = Christophe Henner
| image = Christophe Henner - June 2016.jpg
| term = [[#ch-refs|September 2019]]
| position = Chair
}}
Christophe Henner is the former Board Chair of Wikimedia France and current deputy CEO of [http://www.webedia.com/ Webedia's] gaming division, the international digital media group headquartered in France. At Webedia, Christophe has helped lead the company through organizational transitions and execute a clear strategic vision.

Originally from Lavaur, Christophe studied economics and law at the [[w:University of Toulouse|University of Toulouse]]. He has deep and varied experience across the marketing sector, holding a variety of leadership positions including Chief Marketing Officer at Webedia and Head of Marketing at the online media group, L'Odyssée Interactive.

Christophe has been an active member of the Wikimedia community for more than 12 years. In 2007, he joined the Board of [http://www.wikimedia.fr/ Wikimedia France] and has remained an active Board member in various positions for the past ten years. Nearly three of those years on the Board were spent in leadership roles, including Chair and Vice Chair of the Board.

During his time on the Board, Christophe helped lead Wikimedia France through a significant period of growth. This included leading the development of the chapter’s brand and supporting the development of a clear organizational strategy and vision for the chapter.
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=== María Sefidari ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = left
| name = María Sefidari
| image = María Sefidari - June 2016.jpg
| term = [[#ms-refs|September 2017]]
| position = Vice Chair
}}

María Sefidari Huici is a professor in the [http://cccd.es/wp/ Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program] of [[w:King Juan Carlos University|Rey Juan Carlos University]] at the [[w:es:MediaLab-Prado|MediaLab-Prado]].

Born in Madrid, Spain, where she still lives today, María graduated with a Psychology degree from [[w:Complutense University of Madrid|Universidad Complutense de Madrid]], and later a Master's degree in Management and Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university.

María started contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006, and has since served in many different roles across the Wikimedia movement. Maria was a founding member of [[m:Wikimedia España|Wikimedia España]] and [[m:Wikimujeres|Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias]], and also created [[w:es:Wikiproyecto:LGBT|Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject]]. She has served on several Wikimedia governance committees, including the [[m:Affiliations Committee|Affiliations]] and [[m:Grants:IEG|Individual Engagement Grants]] committees. In her time on the Affiliations committee, María served as the first Treasurer of the committee, effectively overseeing and monitoring disbursement of the committee's budget. From 2013 to 2015, she was also a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board.

María re-joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board in 2016 to fill a community-nominated seat vacancy. Her current term will continue until September 2017.

In her spare time, María travels around the world, runs wiki-workshops to engage new editors, and supports Real Madrid Club de Fútbol.
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=== Kelly Battles ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = right
| name = Kelly Battles
| image = Kelly Battles - January 2016 by Myleen Hollero.jpg
| term = [[#kb-refs|December 2017]]
| position = Member
}}

Kelly Battles grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of [[w:Quora|Quora]], a question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California.

Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Operations Research and Systems Management from Princeton University. She also received her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Prior to her current role at Quora, Kelly served in several executive level positions, including Chief Financial Officer at Bracket Computing and Host Analytics, Vice President of Finance at IronPort Systems, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at Hewlett Packard. Kelly has an extensive background in financial management and strategic organizational development in both the private and nonprofit sectors.

Kelly has received numerous accolades for her work, including the YWCA TWIN Award for Women in Business and the Best in Biz Gold Award. She was also a finalist for both the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal CFO of the Year Award.

In addition to her professional work, Kelly has dedicated herself to advancing education and improving the lives of others. While at McKinsey & Company, she worked extensively with Habitat for Humanity, collaborating with founder Millard Fuller and key executives to improve domestic operations and develop international growth and governance strategies. From 2006 to 2011, she served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the [https://bowmanschool.hubbli.com/ Bowman International School], a non-profit Montessori school focused on inspiring children to love learning. She currently serves as President and Board Member of the Bodnar Foundation, a private charitable foundation.

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=== Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = left
| name = Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak
| image = Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak-2.jpg
| term = [[#dj-refs|September 2017]]
| position = Member
}}

Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak is a full professor of management, the head of the [http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/ Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces], and a founder of [http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/ New Research on Digital Societies] (NeRDS) group at [[:en:Kozminski University|Kozminski University]].

Originally from [[:en:Warsaw|Warsaw]], [[:en:Poland|Poland]], Dariusz studies open collaboration communities, the phenomenon of organized sharing (including piracy), and political memes. He has conducted research projects on related issues at Cornell University, Harvard University, Berkeley, and MIT. In 2014, he published ''Common knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia'' at Stanford University Press. He has been the recipient of many academic merit awards, including a 2004 Fulbright Foundation scholarship and the 2009 Polish Ministry of Science outstanding young scholar award.

Dariusz has held a variety of different roles on Wikipedia, including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward, and ombudsman. He served as the chair of Wikimedia’s Funds Dissemination Committee for three terms.

Dariusz has served as chairperson of the "Inkubator" network for rising literary talent in Poland, chairperson of the Collegium Invisibile academic society, and as a member of the the advisory boards of the Copernicus Science Center and the English Teaching program of the Nida Foundation. He is also the founder of [http://ling.pl/ Ling.pl], the largest Polish online dictionary.
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=== Nataliia Tymkiv ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = right
| name = [[User:NTymkiv (WMF)|Nataliia Tymkiv]]
| image = Nataliia Tymkiv - June 2016 - 2.jpg
| term = [[#nt-refs|September 2019]]
| position = Member
}}
[[User:NTymkiv (WMF)|Nataliia Tymkiv]] currently serves as Financial Director of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law, a Ukrainian media policy and human rights nonprofit. Nataliia grew up in Western Ukraine and has a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Specialist degree in Records Management and Information Activities. She has in-depth experience in executive leadership and financial management. Prior to her current role as Financial Director, Nataliia worked at a manufacturing firm and later, in finance at a construction company.

On the Wikimedia projects, Nataliia has been an active contributor since 2011, and shortly after became an administrator of [[w:uk:|Ukrainian Wikipedia]]. She has also been a member of the [[wmua:|Wikimedia Ukraine]] community for nearly four years.

In late 2012, Nataliia joined the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine as Treasurer. In this position, Nataliia built the financial model for the chapter from the ground up, including detailed financial reporting, accounting, and grant-making activities for the organization. Nataliia was later selected to serve as volunteer Executive Director of Wikimedia Ukraine in 2013 in addition to her position on the Board. In 2015, she returned to her position as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Board.

Throughout her time on the Board, Nataliia helped oversee the growth and expansion of Wikimedia Ukraine in a number of ways, including improvements in transparency and governance-related processes for the chapter, the transition to Annual Plan Grants (APG) funding, growing Wikimedia Ukraine staff, and building and maintaining donor, partner, and community relationships.
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=== Jimmy Wales ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = left
| name = Jimmy Wales
| image = Jimmy Wales-1.jpg
| term = [[#jw-refs|December 2018]]
| position = Member
}}
[[w:en:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] is an [[:en:Internet|Internet]] [[:en:entrepreneur|entrepreneur]] and [[:en:wiki|wiki]] enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project.

Jimmy was born in [[:en:Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[:en:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1966, and is a graduate of [[:en:Auburn University|Auburn University]] and the [[:en:University of Alabama|University of Alabama]]. He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]]. In the mid-[[:en:1990s|1990s]] he started [[:en:Bomis|Bomis]], a search portal focusing on aspects of [[:en:pop culture|pop culture]], one of the first users of the freely licensed data of the [[:en:Open Directory Project|Open Directory Project]].

In 1999, Jimmy had the concept of a freely distributable encyclopedia and founded [[:en:Nupedia|Nupedia]], by hiring philosopher Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief and assigning two programmers to write software for it. Nupedia failed, perhaps due to being a top-down cathedral model, as opposed to Wikipedia, which is the ultimate bazaar. After two years of working with the Nupedia concept, that team opened Wikipedia to help channel content into Nupedia; Wikipedia became an instant success, but not in the envisioned way, and Nupedia was shut down. In 2003, Jimmy set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.

In 2004, Jimmy founded [[:en:Wikia|Wikia]]. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's [[:en:Berkman Center for Internet & Society|Berkman Center for Internet and Society]] in mid-2005, and in October of 2005 joined the Board of Directors of [[w:Socialtext|Socialtext]], a provider of wiki technology to businesses.
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=== Alice Wiegand ===
{{Board member infobox
| align = right
| name = Alice Wiegand
| image = Alice Wiegand-2.jpg
| term = [[#aw-refs|September 2018]]
| position = Member
}}
Alice Wiegand lives in Duesseldorf, Germany, where she is a personal aide to the Mayor of Meerbusch. Previously she ran Meerbusch's IT department as a specialist for system administration in the public sector.

Alice has made various detours before she reached her current occupation. Originally she studied economics, then she decided to become a tailor. After that she jumped at the chance to be trained in software development, followed by training and study for the German senior civil service. She has recently begun her Master's studies in Public Policy and Governance.

Alice started editing German Wikipedia in 2004, following one of the first major series of media stories about the site in Germany. She was looking for something meaningful to do besides her job and started to edit on topics like contemporary art and comics. Soon her activities switched to administration, organization and contributor support. In recent years, she has organized several workshops and skills trainings for contributors, for the volunteer response team OTRS and for Wikipedia administrators.

She has extensive experience as a board member of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE, the German chapter of the Wikimedia movement), which she joined in 2008. At WMDE, she served as secretary and vice president, and she was involved in strategy development, organizational structuring and executive accounting and assessment.

Alice is convinced that offering free knowledge to people is an essential condition to facilitate free and independent decisions. She believes in the strength and advantages of decentralized structures and wants to improve the mutual understanding of all parties involved in the Wikimedia movement. She sees the need to provide reliability and stability at a time when the movement faces fundamental changes in resource allocation, new models of affiliation and the interaction of the chapters.

Alice served as administrator and bureaucrat on German Wikipedia. She has more than 23,000 edits, but the curve shape has rapidly decreased since 2008, when she joined the board of WMDE.
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== Former members ==
{{main|Former Board of Trustees members}}

== Further reading ==
* [[Meetings]] (with minutes)
* [[Resolutions]]
* [[meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook#Voting_procedures|Board deliberations process]]

== Footnotes ==
{{ref group
| id = ch-refs
| text =
; [[#Christophe Henner|Christophe Henner]]
* [[Resolution:Christophe Henner appointment 2016]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = ms-refs
| text =
; [[#María Sefidari|María Sefidari]]
* [[Resolution:Board appointments August 2013]]
* [[Resolution:María Sefidari appointment 2016]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = kb-refs
| text =
; [[#Kelly Battles|Kelly Battles]]
* [[Resolution:Appointing Kelly Battles as Board Member]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = dj-refs
| text =
; [[#Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak|Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak]]
* [[Resolution:Dariusz Jemielniak appointment 2015]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = nt-refs
| text =
; [[#Nataliia Tymkiv|Nataliia Tymkiv]]
* [[Resolution:Nataliia Tymkiv appointment 2016]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = jw-refs
| text =
; [[#Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]
* [[Bylaws#Section 3. Selection.]]
* [[Resolution:Officers election 2006]]<!-- questionable -->
* [[Resolution:Board expansion]]
* [[Resolution:Jimmy Wales reappointment]]
* [[Resolution:Reappointment of Jimmy Wales]]
* [[Vote:Board appointments December 2010]]
* [[Vote:Reappointment of Jimmy Wales, 2012]]
* [[Resolution:Jimmy Wales Reappointment 2014]]
* [[Resolution:Resolution to renew the Founder's seat (2015)]]
}}
{{ref group
| id = aw-refs
| text =
; [[#Alice Wiegand|Alice Wiegand]]
* [[Resolution:Board appointments July 2012]]
* [[Resolution:Alice Wiegand Appointment 2014]]
* [[Resolution:Alice Wiegand Reappointment for 2015]]
}}

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