Ingrid Bachmann is the new president of the International Communication Association (ICA).

The director of the Millennium Nucleus for Inequalities and Digital Opportunities (NUDOS), Ingrid Bachmann, was elected as the new president of the International Communication Association (ICA), a global organization dedicated to the study and advancement of communication sciences, with over 4,000 members.

“The personal is political, but also professional,” stated Ingrid Bachmann in the opening lines of her declaration as a candidate for the presidency of the International Communication Association, known as ICA. The election took place between September and October, with more than 4,000 eligible voters deciding between Ingrid Bachmann and Australian researcher Jean Burgess, who was also a candidate for the position. Just hours ago, it was announced that the director of NUDOS won the election and will serve on the association’s board for the next five years, in a staggered cycle that begins as president-select and ends as past president.

Ingrid Bachmann is a professor at the Faculty of Communications at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has over 20 years of research experience in communication, with a focus on media, political participation, and gender inequalities in the digital environment.

Founded in the United States over 70 years ago, ICA is an academic organization that promotes the scientific study of communication. It brings together researchers from around the world who study communication in various areas such as media, technology, culture, and society, and since 2003, it has been officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO).

Within ICA, the NUDOS director has previously served as chair of the Feminist Studies Division and the Membership and Internationalization Committee, as well as co-chair of the Professional Standards Committee and a member of the Best Article of the Year Award Committee. She also participated in organizing ICA’s first regional conference in Latin America and the first regional center in Latin America for an ICA conference in 2022. Currently, she is an associate editor for two ICA journals, Communication, Culture & Critique and Annals of the International Communication Association.

As president, Bachmann plans to promote diversity and representation within the organization, strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations, and support research on global issues such as press freedom, political participation, and power dynamics in the digital age. Her election marks a milestone as the first Chilean in this position, bringing a perspective from the Global South.