Judith Opoku-Boateng, University Archivist and head of the University of Ghana Archives, has been elected President of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) for a three-year term from 2026 to 2029. She is the first person from Ghana and West Africa to lead the global body, founded in 1969.
Voting ran from June to September 2026 and the results were announced at the association’s conference in Vilnius. She previously served as IASA’s Vice-President for Communication and chaired a diversity task force.
With more than 30 years of work in audiovisual heritage preservation, she champions the return to Africa of African recordings and audiovisual material held in other countries.
