SRMUN's Board of Directors consists of five voting members: three students or former students and two faculty members, all of whom are elected by their peers for one or two year terms during the annual conference. The voting members annually select the Board's president, vice president, and other offices it determines to fill, including the position of Executive Director(s). The Board president presides over Board meetings. Meeting three times each year, the Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the business aspects of the conference. These duties include ensuring the financial health and goals of the corporation as well as the educational mission and integrity for the conference. In addition, the Board selects and trains the Executive Staff of each conference. These offices are: the Secretary-General (SG), the Director-General (DG), the Deputy Director-General (DDG) and the Under Secretary-General of Conference Services (USG-CS). The SG and DG are charged by the Board of Directors to recruit the staff personnel for each year's conference, including the committee directors responsible for formulating and publishing committee background guides.

The members of the 2012 SRMUN Board of Directors are:

Earl Fields, President
I have participated in SRMUN for the past nine years first as a part of the delegation from Georgia State University representing numerous countries including, Armenia, Egypt, and Iran. I am currently serving as the President of the Board of Directors of the SRMUN conference, and have previously served as a student member of the SRMUN board of directors for SRMUN XX and XXI. I have previously served as the Director of the General Assembly Plenary for the SRMUN XIX conference, Director for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for the SRMUN XVIII conference, and Assistant Director for the League of Arab States for the SRMUN XVII conference. I have also served as a committee director for the Gulf States Model United Nations and Georgia State University Model United Nations, and research assistant for the Under-Secretary General for Specialized Agencies for the 2007 National Model United Nations Conference. I received a Master's degree from Georgia State University in the field of Biochemistry. Currently I am enrolled in Public Health Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.


Charles Keller, Vice-President
Charlie Keller went to school at Georgia State University where he majored in Political Science. He has worked in the past for county governments and universities as a technical support professional, and he currently serves as a Technology Specialist for the Ferguson-Florissant School District in St. Louis County. He has been involved with various Model United Nations and Model League of Arab States programs since he was in the sixth grade, and he has attended over seventy conferences in the Midwest and the Southeast. SRMUN XXII will be Charlie's seventh year of involvement with SRMUN after having participated as a delegate and served as a Conference Staff member, Deputy Director-General, and Director-General. He is honored to have been elected to serve this year on the Board of Directors! His interests on the international stage include international law, disarmament policy, Security Council operations, global Information Technology policy, and the status of Non-Self-Governing Territories such as Western Sahara.


Kate Moore, Secretary
Kate Moore is delighted to be returning to SRMUN on the Board of Directors. This will be her fifth year with the conference; she has previously served in several committees as well as Conference Services. Kate graduated from Clemson University with honors in 2004 and from the George Washington University Law School in 2009. She currently lives and works in Washington, DC as an attorney in immigration law.


Dr. Kevin Freeman, Member at Large
Dr. Kevin Freeman is the chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he has been since 2004. Dr. Freeman holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University, a M.A. in International Relations from Baylor University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alabama. He teaches courses primarily in international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on the countries of the developing world, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. His current research agenda focuses on the role of sports in international politics, particularly as they relate to the use soft power. He has been the fortunate recipient of a Fulbright German Studies Summer Grant (2009), a Fulbright-Hayes Seminar Abroad Grant in China (2009), and a Freeman Institute Grant aimed at infusing Japan studies into undergraduate curricula (2006). Most recently, he was awarded a UNCP Outstanding Teaching Award (2010).


Daniel Fuerstman, Member at Large
Daniel Fuerstman is an instructor of political science at the State College of Florida - Manatee/Sarasota where has been since 2009. Daniel has a B.A. in history from Rutgers University - New Brunswick and an M.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He teaches classes in international relations and American government. He founded the Model United Nations at State College of Florida in 2010 and has served as its adviser since.


Christina Stephens, Member Ex-Officio, Secretary-General Emeritus
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Elizabeth Kayed, Member Ex-Officio
Elizabeth Kayed served as Secretary-General for SRMUN XXI and has been with SRMUN for the past ten years. Liz graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with degrees in International and Comparative Political Science and Mass Media Communications. She is currently in the process of applying to law school and looks forward to continuing her studies. While in school, Liz attended a number of MUN conferences, including Harvard's World and SRMUN. For her, SRMUN's fundamental mission of education and mentorship make this one of the best conferences offered to students.


Dr. Cindy Combs, Member Ex-Officio
Cindy Combs received her doctorate in Political Science from George Washington University in Washington, DC in 1984. She is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, teaching at the University since 1988. She became the faculty advisor for the University's Model UN organization in 1990. Cindy has served as a member of the SRMUN Board of Directors since the conference conception in 1991, as well as on the board of the National Model UN and the Carolinas Model UN Conferences. Dr. Combs is the author of the text, Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century, (Prentice-Hall, in its 4th edition, 2006), and with Martin Slann has co-edited the Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Facts on File, revised edition, 2007). She has been the recipient of the Bank of America Teaching Award (1997), the Bonnie Cone Distinguished Professorship of Teaching (2003), and in 2005 the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year for North Carolina Award. She has served as a member of a national Task Force on Terrorism; a consultant for local, state, regional, and national law enforcement agencies on terrorism; and a resource person for more than eighteen years with a wide range of educational, religious and media groups seeking to deal with the role of terrorism in the contemporary world.


Dr. Martin Slann, Member Ex-Officio
Martin Slann received his doctorate in political science from the University of Georgia. He is a long-time member of the American and Midwest Political Science Associations. He is a former member and chair of the political science faculty at Clemson University and a former faculty member and Director of Academic Affairs at Pennsylvania State University Wilkes-Barre. He is currently the chair of the Division of Social Sciences at Macon State College. He has been the faculty advisor for the Model United Nations student organization at all three institutions. With Cindy Combs, he has co-edited the Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Facts on File, revised edition, 2007) and is the author of Introduction to Politics: Governments and Nations in the Twenty-First Century, 4th ed. (Thomson Learning, 2006). He has received awards for advisement excellence at Clemson University and Penn State. Teaching and research interests include Middle East Politics and political terrorism. Along with Cindy Combs, Dr. Slann has served on the SRMUN Board of Directors since the conference's genesis in 1991.


Michael B Gaspar, Executive Director - Finance
Michael B. Gaspar was raised and is currently living in the New York City area. He graduated from Pace University with his combined Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in public accounting and minors in political science and history. After graduation Mike went to work in the public accounting field concentrating in corporate and partnership taxation at such firms as Arthur Andersen, LLP and Ernst & Young, LLP. Mike has been attending SRMUN since 1998 where he started as a first time Model UN delegate. Since then, he has attended close to forty Model UN conferences across North America. Mike has served at SRMUN as a four time director, including committees such as the General Assembly Plenary and World Bank and then as Secretary of the Board of Directors in 2005. This is currently his second year as the Executive Director of Finance for SRMUN, Inc. Mike has also served on the staff of several other conferences including the National Model UN where he recently served as the Deputy Chief of Staff. In addition, Mike has also assisted in many Model UN conferences for middle school and high school students, including conferences that were held in such places as the United Nations Headquarters and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Currently, Mike is an owner of a construction firm in the tri-state specializing in urban grounds improvements. In the near future, Mike intends to sit for the Certified Public Accounting exam and return to graduate school to study real estate development.


Dr. Erika Pfeiler, Executive Director - Operations
Erika Pfeiler recieved her Ph.D. in Genomic Sciences from North Carolina State University in 2009. She currently holds a Commissioner's Fellowship with the United States Food and Drug Administration where she plays a role in the review of dietary supplement products. Erika has been active in Model United Nations for several years, first with the University of Tennessee High School Model United Nations (2000-2004, serving as Secretary-General in 2004) and more recently with SRMUN. Erika has held the positions of Assistant Undersecretary-General for Conference Services, Undersecretary-General for Conference Services, and served as Secretary-General for SRMUN XVIII and XIX.


Dr. Wayne Pfeiler, Executive Director - Information Technology
Dr. Wayne Pfeiler is a biomedical engineer in Raleigh, NC. He worked at Duke University after completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in the joint graduate program at UNC - Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Wayne received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville in May 2002, and a Master of Science degree from the same institution in Engineering Science in May 2004. Although his academic work has focused in science, Wayne has worked with Model UN in different capacities since 1994, when he began as delegate in high school. In 2001, he helped establish UTHSMUN, a new Model UN conference at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville for high school students. Wayne began his SRMUN experience in 2000 as a delegate. The following three years he served on staff as the Assistant Under Secretary-General for Conference Services. Wayne was hired as the Under Secretary-General of Conference Services in 2003 and served in the position for two years before being elected to serve on the Board of Directors. Wayne served as Secretary for the SRMUN Board of Directors for two years, then President for two years before being appointed as the Executive Director for Information and Technology. Dr. Pfeiler's current EDIT appointment extends through the conference in 2013.