Kiwanis Children’s Fund President 2024-2025 Robert Maxwell of Topeka, Kansas, U.S., was appointed president-elect of the Kiwanis Children’s Fund in 2023. He previously served as treasurer for a one-year term, as trustee for one three-year term and for an additional term of one year.  In the Kansas District, Maxwell has served as governor, lieutenant governor […]

Robert Maxwell

KI Vice President 2024-2025 Hope Markes, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Hopewell in Hanover, Jamaica, was elected to a three-year term on the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees during the Eastern Canada and Caribbean District convention in May 2021.  Markes was district governor in 2013-2014 and previously served as lieutenant governor. At the district level, she was a member of […]

Hope Markes

KCF Trustee George Yoshida of Tokyo, Japan, was appointed to serve a three-year term as Kiwanis Children’s Fund trustee, beginning October 1, 2022.  Yoshida is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Tokyo, where he served as club president from 2014-15. He also served the Japan District as distinguished secretary from 2011-13, lieutenant governor from […]

George Yoshida

KI Executive Director Paul Palazzolo is executive director of Kiwanis International and all its subsidiaries. Prior to starting in that role in February 2024, the Springfield, Illinois, U.S., native served as a public official — beginning in 2001, when he was elected to the Springfield Park Board. He also served as Sangamon County auditor, treasurer of the […]

Paul Palazzolo

KCF Trustee Babukrishna Karki of Kathmandu, Nepal, was appointed to serve a three-year term as Kiwanis Children’s Fund trustee, beginning October 1, 2022.  Karki is a member of the Kiwanis Clubs of Kathmandu City, Nature Conservation Nepal and Janakpur, where he also served as president. He served as Kiwanis Children’s Fund District Chair in 2020-21 […]

Babu Krishna Karki

Koji Yoshida

KI Trustee Chang-Ching Hsu of Tainan City, Taiwan, was elected to a three-year term to the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees during the 2023 Asia-Pacific District Convention. She represents the Asia-Pacific region of Kiwanis International.  A member of Kiwanis since 1995, Hsu is currently a member of the Kiwanis Club of Ying Feng, Tainan Hsein. She […]

Chang Ching “Susan” Hsu

Kiwanis Children’s Fund President 2023-2024

Amy Zimmerman

KI President Michael Mulhaul of Interlaken, New Jersey, U.S., was elected to a one-year term as vice president of Kiwanis International during the 2023 Kiwanis International Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. He is also a trustee for the Kiwanis Children’s Fund.  A Kiwanis member for 32 years, Mulhaul is a member of the Kiwanis Club of […]

Michael Mulhaul

KI Trustee Mohan Lamsal of Kathmandu, Nepal, was elected to a three-year term as a trustee of Kiwanis International during the 2023 Kiwanis International Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. He will serve as a trustee at large.  A member of Kiwanis for seven years, Lamsal is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Kathmandu and the […]

Mohan Lamsal