Governance

Dryad is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit membership-based organization incorporated in North Carolina, USA. A twelve member Board of Directors is elected by its Members. See also Dryad's Business and Sustainability Plan

ByLaws
Dryad's Bylaws were adopted by the Board of Directors on July 23, 2012, were amended in May 2013 and most recently in May 2016 by the membership.

Membership Meetings
Annual Membership and Community Meeting are held each in May of each year; the location varies.

Board of Directors
The current board is constituted of the most recent three classes. Each class of four members serves a term of three years. See the website for biographical information on current board members. See also the Board Manual for information on the functioning of the Board.

Class of 2022

 * Jennifer Lin, Catriona MacCallum, Johan Nilsson, Naomi Penfold

Class of 2021

 * Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Mangiafico, Caroline Sutton, Paul Uhlir

Class of 2020

 * Emilio Bruna, Brian Hole, Fiona Murphy, Carly Strasser

Ex Officio (non-voting) members

 * Günter Waibel, Charles Fox

Former classes

 * 2019: Charles Fox, Jennifer Lin, Johan Nilsson, Susanna-Assunta Sansone (ending May 2017), Alf Eaton (starting August 2017)
 * 2018: Simon Hodson, Bill Michener, Eefke Smit (ended Sep-2015), Ingrid Dillo (stared Jan-2016), Todd Vision
 * 2017: Lynn Baird (ended May 2016), Theo Bloom, Emilio Bruna, Martin Fenner (started July 2016), Liz Ferguson
 * 2016: Martin Fenner, Charles Fox, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Carol Tenopir, Kevin Smith (Duke U representative, ex officio)
 * 2015: Simon Hodson, Bill Michener, Eefke Smit, Todd Vision
 * 2014: Theodora Bloom, Liz Ferguson, Marcel Holyoak, Brian Lavoie
 * 2013: Lee Dirks, Allen Moore, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Michael Whitlock

Officers

 * 2019-2020: Sutton (chair), Nilsson (vice-chair), Hole (treasurer) and Murphy (secretary)
 * 2018-2019: Fox (chair), Nilsson (vice-chair), Hole (treasurer) and Murphy (secretary)
 * 2017-2018: Lin (chair), Hodson (vice-chair), Hole (treasurer) and Fox (secretary)
 * 2016-2017: Vision (chair), Sansone (vice-chair), Fox (treasurer) and Lin (secretary)
 * 2015-2016: Vision (chair), Sansone (vice-chair), Fox (treasurer) and Ferguson (secretary)
 * 2014-2015: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Fox (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)
 * 2013-2014: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Lavoie (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)
 * 2012-2013: Michener (chair), Bloom (vice-chair), Lavoie (treasurer) and Vision (secretary)

Committee Members
 Finance: Bruna, Hole (Chair), Lin, Mangiafico Governance: Nilsson (Chair), Murphy, Strasser, Sutton 

Board of Director Meeting Minutes

 * 2019
 * Aug 21 Teleconference
 * May 28, Oakland, CA
 * Feb 27 Teleconference
 * 2018
 * Nov 14 Teleconference
 * Aug 22 Teleconference
 * May 21 Teleconference
 * April 26 Teleconference
 * March 5 Teleconference
 * January 29-30, Durham, NC
 * 2017
 * November 7 Teleconference
 * August 29 Teleconference
 * May 5 Teleconference
 * ​March 31 Teleconference
 * ​Feb 6 Teleconference
 * 2016
 * ​Nov 30 Teleconference
 * ​Sept 9-10, Denver, CO
 * ​July 6 Teleconference
 * ​May 23 10 Teleconference
 * ​Feb 10 Teleconference
 * 2015
 * ​Dec 3 Teleconference
 * ​Sept 18-19, Paris
 * ​July 26 Teleconference
 * ​May 26-27, Washington, DC
 * ​February 24 Teleconference
 * 2014
 * December 9 Teleconference
 * September 18-19, Amsterdam
 * July 8 Teleconference
 * May 25-27, Cambridge, MA
 * ​February 17 Teleconference
 * 2013
 * November 22, Paris
 * August 27 Teleconference
 * May 24, Oxford, UK
 * February 11 Teleconference
 * 2012
 * November, Dulles, Virginia, November 17-18, 2012
 * September 24 Teleconference
 * July, Durham, North Carolina, July 23-25, 2012
 * [[Media:DryadBoard20120608.pdf|June]], teleconference, June 8, 2012

Interim Governance (2009-2012)
Prior to incorporation, from 2009 to early 2012, the organization was known as the Dryad Consortium and operated under an [[Media:Governance for dec meeting.pdf|Interim Governance Agreement]].

Dryad Consortium Members and Representatives

 * The American Naturalist (American Society of Naturalists) - Michael Whitlock
 * BMJ Open (British Medical Association) - Richard Sands
 * The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (Linnean Society of London) - John Allen
 * BioMed Central - Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
 * British Ecological Society - Charles Fox
 * Ecology Letters (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - Marcel Holyoak
 * Ecological Society of America - William Michener and David Baldwin
 * Evolution (Society for the Study of Evolution) - Daphne Fairbairn
 * Evolutionary Applications - Michelle Tseng
 * Heredity (The Genetics Society) - Roger Butlin
 * Journal of Evolutionary Biology (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) - Allen Moore
 * Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (US Fish and Wildlife Service) - John Wenburg
 * Journal of Heredity (The American Genetic Association) - Scott Baker and Mohamed Noor
 * Journal of Paleontology and Paleobiology (The Paleontological Society) - Steve Hageman and Bruce MacFadden
 * Molecular Biology and Evolution (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) - Marcy Uyenoyama
 * Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources - Tim Vines
 * Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - Derek Wildman
 * Oikos (Nordic Society Oikos) - Tim Benton
 * Oxford University Press - Cathy Kennedy
 * Pensoft Publishers - Lyubomir Penev
 * PLOS - Theo Bloom
 * Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Laura Zahn
 * Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology - Harold Heatwole
 * Systematic Biology (Society of Systematic Biologists) - Rod Page
 * Wiley-Blackwell - Liz Ferguson

Dryad Consortium Executive Committee

 * 2009-2010: William Michener, Allen Moore, Mohamed Noor, Marcy Uyenoyama, Tim Vines, and Michael Whitlock (chair).
 * 2010-2012: Marcel Holyoak, William Michener, Allen Moore, Mohamed Noor, and Michael Whitlock (chair).

Dryad Consortium Board Meetings

 * July 2011, Vancouver, Canada
 * April 2010, Durham, NC, USA
 * December 2009, London, UK
 * May 2009, Durham NC, USA