President
Mark Lauritsen
In 2017, Mark Lauritsen was elected President of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF). Mark serves as International Vice President and Director of the Food Processing, Packing and Manufacturing Division of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). A third-generation packinghouse worker who began his union career as a shop steward in the Wilson Foods meatpacking plant in Cherokee, Iowa, Mark’s rank-and-file perspective guides his work to unite worker activists from across the country. He spearheads the UFCW’s work to organize new packinghouse workers, negotiate contracts, and to educate political and community allies in the effort to raise standards for all workers in the meat packing and food processing industries.
Acting General Secretary
Kristjan Bragason
Regional Secretaries
Siméon Toundé Dossou
IUF Regional Secretary:
Africa
Hidayat Greenfield
IUF Regional Secretary:
Asia/Pacific
Clifton Grant
IUF Regional Secretary:
Caribbean
Enrico Somaglia
IUF Regional Secretary:
Europe
Gerardo Iglesias
IUF Regional Secretary:
Latin America
Regional Presidents
Assétou Espérance Dabiré-Traoré
IUF Regional President:
Africa
SYNTETH / Burkina Faso
Tim Kennedy
IUF Regional President:
Asia/Pacific
UWU / Australia
Dwaine Paul
IUF Regional President:
Caribbean
BWU / Barbados
Annika Rönni-Sällinen
IUF Regional President:
Europe
PAM / Finland
Pablo Quiroga
IUF Regional President:
Latin America
FATAGA / Argentina
First Principal Vice President
To be decided
Second Principal Vice President
Caterina Cinanni
UWU / Australia
Vice Presidents
Anne Berit Aker Hansen
NNN / Norway
Patricia Alonso
FAUPPA / Argentina
Stuart Appelbaum
RWDSU/UFCW / USA/Canada
Uroš Milivojević
GS PPI Nezavisnost / Serbia
Bev Clarkson
Unite the Union / UK
Toshiyuki Ito
Food - Rengo / Japan
Michele Kessler
UFCW / USA/Canada
Gwen Mills
UNITE HERE! / USA/Canada
Héctor Morcillo
FTIA / Argentina
Ronaldine Burgess
BIU / Bermuda
Guido Zeitler
NGG / Germany