Council and Committee

The IMCoS structure is based on a President, Council (an advisory body of leading international cartographers and map historians) and a London based Executive Committee responsible for planning and day to day running. The Society's Constitution shows in full the formal governance of the Society. Our current President, Sarah Tyacke, is a highly respected English academician known worldwide. Our Chairman, Hans Kok is based in the Netherlands but attends the meetings of the Executive Committee in London; for the remainder E-mail is the main communication between the Committee members (and Tel/fax)

The new editor of the Journal is Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird.

Despite being UK based, wherever you are in the world there's likely to be an IMCoS representative close by. We have a National Representative for each country where we have several member and a National Representative Coordinator. We're essentially a friendly, informal and non commercial group linked through the IMCoS international network. This means there's bound to be someone who can offer help and advice on any specialist aspect of maps, whatever your particular interest, or simply on map collecting in general. Some of us have been collectors for over 40 years (including some celebrated scholars,) while others have only recently become interested.

 There is one National Representatives Coordinator as Appointed Officer to the Committee.