Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, as its ultimate corporate authority.

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 final composition of the Board is:

• one founder's seat (reserved for Jimmy Wales);
• seven seats appointed by the rest of the Board for specific expertise selected in a process guided by the Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee
• eight seats sourced from the wider Wikimedia community at Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees questions and answers session at Wikimania 2015

Photo	Name	Seat	Role	Term ends	Notes	Home wiki
	Jimmy Wales (User:Jimbo Wales)	Founder	Chair Emeritus	November 1, 2024	Reappointed on 8 December 2021	English Wikipedia
	Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak (User:Pundit)	Community/Affiliate	Governance Committee chair	November 1, 2024	Appointed in October 2021	Polish Wikipedia
	Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:Rosiestep)	Community/Affiliate		November 1, 2024	Appointed in October 2021	English Wikipedia
	Victoria Doronina (User:Victoria)	Community/Affiliate		November 1, 2024	Appointed in October 2021	Russian Wikipedia
	Lorenzo Losa (User:Laurentius)	Community/Affiliate		November 1, 2024	Appointed in October 2021	Italian Wikipedia
	Nataliia Tymkiv (User:NTymkiv (WMF))	Appointed	Chair	November 1, 2025	Appointed on 23 March 2022	Ukrainian Wikipedia
	Shani Evenstein Sigalov (User:Shani (WMF))	Community/Affiliate	Vice Chair; Community Affairs Committee chair	September 1, 2022	Elected in June 2019	Hebrew Wikipedia
	Esra'a Al Shafei	Appointed	Vice Chair; Product and Technology Committee chair	October 1, 2023	Reappointed on 18 September 2020
	Raju Narisetti	Appointed	Talent and Culture Committee chair	October 1, 2023	Reappointed on 18 September 2020
	Tanya Capuano	Appointed	Audit Committee chair	September 1, 2024	Reappointed on 26 August 2021
	Luis Bitencourt-Emilio	Appointed		December 31, 2025	Appointed on 12 January 2022

Notes:

Former members

See also: History of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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)
• Funds Dissemination Committee
  • Current liaisons: Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv
• Affiliations Committee (Charter)
  • Current liaisons: Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Nataliia Tymkiv
• Elections Committee
  • Current liaisons: Esra'a Al Shafei, Jimmy Wales
• Language committee (Charter)
  • Current liaison: Nataliia Tymkiv

Further reading

• List of Board meetings (with minutes)
• List of Board resolutions
• Board deliberations process
• Composition of the Board of Trustees
• Presentations by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members
• Essays and discussions on ideal membership:
  • What makes a good Trustee?
  • Traits of a great WMF Trustee
  • The ideal Wikimedia board of trustees
  • Ideal candidate profile (2019)