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Photo	Name	Seat	Role	Term ends	Notes	Home wiki
	Mayree Clark	Appointed	Product and Technology Committee Chair	January 1, 2027	Appointed on 4 August 2025
	Raju Narisetti	Appointed	Governance Committee Chair	January 1, 2027	Reappointed on 15 August 2023
	Kathy Collins	Appointed	Vice Chair; Audit Committee chair	December 31, 2026	Appointed on 1 November 2023
	Victoria Doronina (User:Victoria)	Community/Affiliate		December 31, 2027	Reappointed in December 2024	Russian Wikipedia
	Lorenzo Losa (User:Laurentius)	Community/Affiliate	Chair		Reappointed in December 2024	Italian Wikipedia
	Christel Steigenberger (User:Kritzolina)	Community/Affiliate			Appointed in December 2024	German Wikipedia
	Maciej Nadzikiewicz (User:Nadzik)	Community/Affiliate			Appointed in December 2024	Polish Wikipedia
	Jimmy Wales (User:Jimbo Wales)	Founder	Chair Emeritus[Notes 1]	December 31, 2027	Reappointed on 20 June 2024	English Wikipedia
	Luis Bitencourt-Emilio	Appointed		January 1, 2028	Reappointed on 20 June 2024
	Bobby Shabangu (User:Bobbyshabangu)	Community/Affiliate		December 31, 2028	Appointed in December 2025	English Wikipedia
	Michał Buczyński (User:Aegis Maelstrom)	Community/Affiliate		December 31, 2028	Appointed in December 2025	Polish Wikipedia

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