The Board of Directors of the International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) consists of thirteen Members:
• four Directors from the sector of science,
• four Directors from the sector of family professions,
• four Directors from the sector of civil society, and
• the Secretary General.
The ICSP President and the two ICSP Vice-Presidents are Directors from the three different sectors.
Board of Directors (2024-2025):
| Edward Kruk, Prof. em., President, Canada | Science |
| Ioannis Paparigopoulos, Vice-President, Greece | Family Professions |
| Oliver Hunziker, Vice-President, Switzerland | Civil Society |
| Sandra Inès Feitor, PhD, Portugal | Science |
| Alex Masardo, PhD. United Kingdom | Science |
| Eivind Meland, Prof. em., Norway | Science |
| Donald (Don) Hubin, Prof. em., USA | Family Professions |
| Annelien Jonckheere, Belgium | Family Professions |
| Joan T. Kloth-Zanard, USA | Family Professions |
| Ian Maxwell, Scotland, UK | Civil Society |
| Peter Tromp, Netherlands | Civil Society |
| George Piskor, Canada | Civil Society |
| Angela Hoffmeyer, Germany | Secretary General |
Edward Kruk, Prof. em., President, Canada
Science
Edward Kruk, MSW, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, specializing in child and family policy, who also practices family mediation in Vancouver. His recent research projects have focused on co-parenting after divorce, family mediation, and parental alienation. He has over 40 years of clinical and community work experience as a professional social worker. He received his BA and MSW degrees from the University of Toronto, and his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, where he studied as a National Welfare Fellow. His professional experience also includes a faculty appointment with the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work, family practice with Catholic Family Services in Calgary, medical social work practice with the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, school social work practice with the Metro Separate School Board in Toronto, and child protection work with the Metro and Catholic Children’s Aid Societies in Toronto. He is author of “Divorce and Disengagement: Patterns of Fatherhood Within and Beyond Marriage” (Fernwood, 1993), “Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Social Work and the Human Services” (Nelson-Hall, 1997), “Divorced Fathers: Children’s Needs and Parental Responsibilities” (Fernwood, 2011), “The Equal Parent Presumption” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013), and “The Routledge International Handbook of Shared Parenting and the Best Interest of the Child” (Routledge, 2021), and has published widely in a variety of academic and professional journals.
Ioannis Paparigopoulos, Vice-President, Greece
Family Professions
Lawyer in Athens, Greek citizen, founding member of the ICSP. Studied in Athens (law and political science) and in Paris (international law). Author of books, articles and videos on shared parenting. Administrator of the website www.synepimelia.gr. President of the organization CSP Greece. Active participation to the elaboration and vote of the 2021 Greek law on shared parenting. Participated in all ICSP conferences. Chair of the organization committee of the 4th ICSP Strasbourg conference. Participation as member to the INGO’s Committee on the Rights of the Child – Council of Europe. Chair of ICSP’s European Committee. Chair of the Organization Committee of the 6th ICSP International Conference on Shared Parenting in Athens 2023.
Oliver Hunziker, Vice-President, Switzerland
Civil Society (Vice President 2014-)
IT Consultant.
President of the Swiss ‘Association for Shared Parenting’ (GeCoBi), President of ‘Verantwortungsvoll erziehende Väter und Mütter (VeV) Switzerland (responsibly educating fathers and mothers).
Oliver Hunziker has startet his activity for shared parenting back in 2004 when he joined the board of VeV. He is founder of the swiss umbrella organisation GeCoBi as well as founder of the one and still only house for male victims of domestic violence ‘ZwüscheHalt’.
Today he is mainly working as a lobbyist for parenthood issues. He is one of the leading representants of civil society in family law affairs in Switzerland.
Sandra Inês Feitor, PhD, Portugal
Science
Attorney. PhD in Law with thesis on parental alienation. Master in Law with thesis on parental alienation. Invited lecturer in the Law course at the Lusófona University of Lisbon. Invited lecturer in postgraduate classes at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon, specific classes at the European University and Module «Parental Alienation Syndrome» in the Jurisnova course at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. ICFML Family Mediator. Member of the Mediation Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Parental Alienation. Member of the Parental Alienation International Study Group. International Member of the Brazilian Happy Child Association. Since 2022 Board Member of the International Council on Shared Parenting;
co-chair of the Scientific Committee organizing the 7th ICSP International Conference on Shared Parenting in Brazil 2025.
Alex Masardo, PhD, United Kingdom
Science
Dr Alex Masardo is the Academic Subject Leader for Education and Early Years in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He has held posts at the Universities of Bath and Birmingham and Visiting and Honorary Fellowships at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics. He has worked on funded research from the ESRC, HEA, SEDA, HEFCE, Erasmus and the British Council. He has written on fathers’ experiences of managing shared residence and was co-investigator on the AHRC Networking Grant: ‘Post-separation families and shared residence: setting the interdisciplinary research agenda for the future’. Alex is a member of a number of Professional Societies and Associate Editor of Journal of Family Studies.
Co-chair of the Scientific Committee organizing the 7th ICSP International Conference on Shared Parenting in Brazil 2025.
Eivind Meland, Prof. em., Norway
Science
Eivind Meland was educated as a MD at the University of Bergen. He served as a family physician during 43 years and had a part time academic position most of those years. He was appointed professor in 2005 and have served as emeritus since 2018 at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen. 2019 he was appointed as clinical mentor for specialist candidates in Family Medicine in Bergen Municipality.
His research interests are: Adolescent health, family factors, parental loss and subjective health and wellbeing; Motivation and lifestyle changes, self-determination theory and basic psychological needs.
Homepage: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Eivind.Meland
Donald (Don) Hubin, Prof. em., USA
Family Professions
Donald C. Hubin, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, former Chair of the OSU Department of Philosophy, and Founding Director Emeritus of the Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values. He received his B.A. with honors from the University of California, Davis, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona. He specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy and philosophy of law.
One of Don’s main areas of research is the nature, basis and implications of parental rights. His research is available online here.
Don has been active in citizen action groups to promote shared parenting and has also served on several state commissions, including the Ohio Child Support Reform Shareholders’ Group (2001–2003) and the Ohio Child Support Guideline Council (2003–2005). He currently serves as Chair of National Parents Organization.
Annelien Jonckheere, Belgium
Family Professions
Annelien Jonckheere graduated as social worker with distinction in 2002.
Afterwards she studied psychotherapy and mediation. In 2010 she became expert for court by the Belgian ministery of Justice.
She has her own practice in Koekelare, Belgium. She works together with judges from several courts.
Her expertise is to make people conscious about themselves and their attachment style and help them to adjust their parental communication. This will help families to avoid parental alienation.
Joan T. Kloth-Zanard, USA
Family Professions
Joan is an expert in the fields of Parental Alienation, psychological abuse, intervention strategies, and techniques and strategies for moving forward and rebuilding a life after a traumatic event, or series of traumatic events. The reality is that most people don’t get to choose the things that happen to them. Hopefully though, they will arrive at a point in time where they are able to choose to be pro-active about what they want for their future. Joan has a passion for helping people recognize that point in time and then providing them with ongoing support and guidance to help them keep moving forward.
She is an active advocate for victims and speaks to legislative bodies about the programs, services, and funding victims rely on for support while they journey to reclaim their lives. She also serves as a Guardian Ad Litem and is assigned by the court to cases where a minor child’s interests and rights are at risk.
Joan is the author of “Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss The Signs? Dealing with Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation,” a contributing Editor in “Broken Family Bonds: Poems and Stories by Victims of Parental Alienation,” and continues to provide free, one-on-one, 24/7, international, online, email, and text messaging support to victims.
Website: www.pas-intervention.org
Ian Maxwell, Scotland, UK
Civil Society
Ian Maxwell has been the National Manager of the charity Shared Parenting Scotland since it was established as Families Need Fathers Scotland in 2010. Prior to that he worked for One Parent Families Scotland from 1994-2008. He was a consumer member of the Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) which makes rules of court between 2013 and 2019.
He has presented papers at various international conferences on shared parenting issues in Europe and America and contributed a chapter on “Trying to put shared parenting into Scottish law” to the Routledge International Handbook of Shared Parenting.
Peter Tromp, Netherlands
Civil Society
- 1976: Candidacy examinations in both Pedagogy and Andragogy at the Free University of Amsterdam
- 1983: Master of Science (MSc) in Child and Educational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam
- 1996 till today: President of Dutch NGO Father Knowledge Centre (Vader Kennis Centrum – VKC)
- 2011 till today: President and initiator of the Platform for European Fathers (PEF)
George Piskor, Canada
Civil Society
George Piskor MASc (U. Toronto), SM (MIT, Boston), LLM (Osgoode Hall, Toronto) served as Co-President of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council (CEPC), a coalition of 40 advocacy organizations, which initiated the first Canadian Shared Parenting Bill. At the invitation of
several UK organizations, he created the UK FRM coalition of 26 organizations to lobby for shared parenting reform. He co-authored the 2019 Shared Parenting Report Card by the US National Parents Organization (NPO). His advocacy experience includes organizational management, Policy Submissions, drafting Bills, conducting FRM surveys, academic papers, conference presentations and political lobbying.
Angela Hoffmeyer, Secretary General, Germany
Philologist (German / English)
(2009 – 2019) Member of the Federal Board of Väteraufbruch für Kinder e. V. (VAfK)
Co-Founder of the ICSP, Secretary General since 2014