2023-2025

Chairperson: Mr. William Smith, President/CEO, Aging in America and UN Representative, IAHSA.

Vice-Chairperson: Ms. Robin Fenley, International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA)..

Treasurer: Katharine Weiss, UN representative of the Global Ageing Network.

Corresponding Secretary: Ms. Ariana Elezaj, Deputy Director of Older Adult Services at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.

Recording Secretary: Ms. Martha Bial, Faculty Research Scholar, Ravazzin Center on Aging at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New York.

Past Chair:  Cynthia Stuen, International Federation on Ageing.

Members-at-Large: Ramsey Alwin, National Council on Aging, Bethany Brown, AARP, Robin Fenley, International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse;  Christopher Hanway, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement; Magda Kaczmarska, Generations United; William Smith, Global Ageing Network

UNIDOP Co-Chairs for 2023: Christophert Hanway, Executive Director Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Ariana Elezai, Deputy Director of Older Adult Services at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.

By-Laws

The NGO Committee on Ageing is constituted as a Committee of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO) in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), United Nations, New York, in April 1979.

The purpose of the NGO Committee on Ageing is to encourage, facilitate, and support the United Nations’ actions related to ageing so as to fulfill its mission.

Read the NGOCOA-NY By-Laws.