As 2020 is now well and truly here we welcome you to the new board and are pleased to share our latest updates.
The board looks forward to the upcoming year as the IAM expands and continues to grow memory sports worldwide, with great competitions and continuing support for the global memory community.
Your new board has mainly been re-elected from last year with two new members.
We are happy that Simon Reinhard has been elected Chairman of the Board.
The new members are Johannes Mallow and Darren Michalczuk, we welcome them and their contribution to the board. Johannes is from Germany and is a two-time World Memory Champion, and Darren is a leading Canadian memory athlete and author.
1. IAM Board election results
Africa
Charifa Souissi
America
Darren Michalczuk
Asia Akash
Rupela Europe
Johannes Mallow
Oceania
Anastasia Woolmer
Open (regardless of continent)
Simon Reinhard
Sanchit Sharma
Nathalie Lecordier
Corinna Draschl
Mohamed Ramadan
We are excited that 2020 will bring a number of new National IAM Competitions globally (with announcements in upcoming months). It is our aim to grow the number of national competitions worldwide.
2. Upcoming Competitions
North German Memory XL Competition – Berlin 6 June
https://www.facebook.com/events/2688281241259150/
German Competition – Likely to be held in Heilbronn in second half of July
Scandinavian Memory League Open 2020 – Gothenburg 25-26 of April
http://www.minnesforbundet.se/kontakt/sko20
The board continues to prioritise transparency in our work and resolves to share regular updates with the memory community. You can always reach out to us at info@iam-memory.org for any questions and feedback, or use the new ideas page https://www.iam-memory.org/ideas/