IATIS was founded in 2004 by the following:

President

Annie Brisset, University of Ottawa, Canada

Co-Vice Presidents

Mona Baker, University of Manchester, UK
SUN Yifeng, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Secretary and Treasurer

Sung Hee Kirk, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea

Chair of Executive Council

Theo Hermans, University College London, UK

Executive Council

Jan Blommaert, Ghent University, Belgium

Stuart Campbell, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Sameh Fekry Hanna, Academy of Arts, Egypt

Juliane House, University of Hamburg, Germany

Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland

Rosemary Moeketsi, UNISA, South Africa

Saliha Paker, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Mahasweta Sengupta, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India

Elżbieta Tabakowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Patricia Willson, Instituto ‘Juan R. Fernández’, Argentina

Luo Xuanmin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Ohsawa Yoshihiro, University of Tokyo at Komaba, Japan