Prof. Lyesse Laloui elected President of ISSMGE in Vienna; four-year term 2026–2030

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Prof. Lyesse Laloui elected President of ISSMGE

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Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics at EPFL to lead the world’s pre-eminent geotechnical engineering body for the 2026–2030 term

ISSMGE is the world’s pre-eminent professional body for geotechnical engineering, representing 92 national member societies and more than 21,000 individual members worldwide. As President, Prof. Laloui will lead the organisation’s global agenda: shaping how geotechnical expertise contributes to the challenges of climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and the energy transition, and ensuring that ISSMGE gives its member societies the international reach and influence that no national society can deliver alone.

Geotechnical engineering has the science, the tools, and the people to address some of the defining challenges of our time. ISSMGE must become the instrument through which that capability reaches the world, giving every member society the platform and the leverage to make it count.

Prof. Laloui will be inaugurated as President at the closing ceremony of the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering on 19 June 2026.

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Prof. Lyesse Laloui, Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics (LMS) at EPFL, has been elected President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) at the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Vienna. He will serve a four-year term from 2026 to 2030. ISSMGE is the world’s pre-eminent professional body for geotechnical engineering, representing 92 national member societies and more than 21,000 individual members worldwide. As President, Prof. Laloui will lead the organisation’s global agenda: shaping how geotechnical expertise contributes to the challenges of climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and the energy transition, and ensuring that ISSMGE gives its member societies the international reach and influence that no national society can deliver alone. Geotechnical engineering has the science, the tools, and the people to address some of the defining challenges of our time. ISSMGE must become the instrument through which that capability reaches the world, giving every member society the platform and the leverage to make it count. Prof. Laloui, Vienna, June 2026ere Prof. Laloui will be inaugurated as President at the closing ceremony of the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering on 19 June 2026.