International Scientific Committee

  • Honorary Chair:
    • Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil, WASP, WPA Past President
  • Co-Chairs:
    • Vincenzo Di Nicola (Canada, WASP President, Congress President)
    • Rakesh K. Chadda (India, WASP President-Elect)

WASP Council of Past Presidents

  • Chair:
    • Roy A. Kallivayalil (India, WASP Past President)
    • Driss Moussaoui (Morocco, WASP Past President & Presidential Advisor)
    • Rachid Bennegadi (France, WASP Past President & Presidential Advisor)
    • Tom Craig (UK, WASP Past President)
    • Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva (Brazil, WASP Past President)
    • Shridhar Sharma (India, WASP Past President)

WASP Advisors

  • Andrew Molodynski (WASP Secretary General)
  • Yasser Khazaal (WASP Treasurer)
  • Debasish Basu (India, President, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry; Editor-in-Chief, World Social Psychiatry)
  • Marianne Kastrup (Denmark, WASP Past Treasurer)

National Organizing Committee (Morocco)

  • Chair: 
    • Driss MOUSSAOUI (Past-President of WASP, President of the Moroccan Association of Social Psychiatry)
    • Co-Chair Hachem TYAL (President of the Moroccan Association of Dynamic Psychiatry) 
  • Members: 
    • Brahim BENBRAHIM (President of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry) 
    • Nadia KADRI (President of the Moroccan Association of Private Psychiatrists)
    • Hachem TYAL (President of the Moroccan Association of Dynamic Psychiatry) 
    • Saïd FATTAH (Chair of the WASP Section on Families and Psychiatry 
    • Fatima EL OMARI (Vice-President and Past President of the Moroccan Association of Addictology)
    • Jallal TOUFIQ (Chair of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board)
    • Fatiha MANOUDI (Head of the University Psychiatry Department, Director of the Ibn Nafis University Psychiatric Hospital, Marrakesh) 
  • Mohamed AGOUB (Chief Physician, Ibn Rochd University Psychiatric Center, Casablanca) 
  • Hassan HARGOUN (Member of the National Federation for Mental Health & representative of family caregiver NGOs) 
  • Salma RAOUI (Chair of the Moroccan Association of Public Sector Psychiatrists)

International Advisory Committee

  • Co-Chairs: 
    • Norman Sartorius (Switzerland, WPA Past President, Past Director WHO Division of Mental Health)
    • Dinesh Bhugra (UK, Past President of WPA, BMA, Royal College of Psychiatrists)
  • Members: 
    • Laurence Kirmayer (Canada, Director, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University)
    • Danuta Wasserman (Sweden, President, WPA)
    • César Alfonso (USA, President, World Federation for Psychotherapy)
    • Mario Braakman (The Netherlands, President, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry) 
    • Muhammad Irfan (Pakitstan, President-Elect, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry) 
    • Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan, President, World Federation for Mental Health)
    • Maria Ammon (Germany, World Association of Dynamic Psychiatry)
    • Dilip Jeste (USA, Past President, APA; President-Elect, World Federation for Psychotherapy; Director, Global Research Network on Social Determinants of Mental Health and Exposomics)
    • Theresa Miskimen-Rivera (USA, President, APA)
    • Vijay Seethapathy (Canada, President-Elect, Canadian Psychiatric Association, who will be President at the time of our congress)
    • Gary Chaimowitz (Canada, President-Elect, CASP; Past President CPA; Canada’s WHO Representative)
    • Yueqin Huang (China)
    • François Ferrero (Switzerland, Past President of the European Association of Social Psychiatry)
    • Luigi Janiri (Italy, President of the European Association of Social Psychiatry)
    • Andreas Heinz (Germany)
    • Lieselotte Mahler (Germany)
    • Shirete Rhexaj (Switzerland)
    • Michaela Amering (Austria)

Member-in-Training

  • Samra Zafar (Canada, University of Toronto, Member in psychiatric training – originally from Pakistan, now a psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto)

WASP Members

  • Olga Garcia Falceto (Brazil, Chair, WASP Women’s Section – from Brazil)
  • Saïd Fattah (France, Chair, WASP Family Interventions Section)
  • Yann Hodé (France, Secretary-General, WASP Family Interventions Section)
  • Shiro Suda (Japan, President, Japanese Society for Social Psychiatry)
  • Adalberto Barreto (Brazil, President, Brazilian Association for Social Psychiatry)
  • Antonello Bellomo (Italy, President, Italian Association for Social Psychiatry)
  • Mazhar Malik (Pakistan, President, Pakistan Association of Social Psychiatry)
  • Gabriel Ivbijaro (Nigeria/UK, President, West African Association of Social Psychiatry)
  • Aida S. Mihajlovic (USA, President, American Association for Social Psychiatry)
  • Emmanuel Stip (Canada, President, Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry)
  • Maria Bernadett Carandang (The Philippines, WASP Early Career Psychiatrists Section)