KI Trustee Michel Fongue of New Caledonia was elected to a three-year term on the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees during a special meeting held in lieu of the 2020 Kiwanis International convention. Michel is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Mont-Dore in Noumea, South Province, New Caledonia, in the New Zealand-South Pacific District […]

Michel Fongue

KI Trustee Trinidad P. “Toto” Gonzales of Magalang, Pampanga, Philippines, was elected to a three-year term to the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees during the Asia- Pacific District Convention held March 2022. He represents the Asia-Pacific region of Kiwanis International. A member of Kiwanis International since 1988, Gonzales has served as Asia-Pacific chair and as […]

Trinidad “Toto” Gonzales

KI Trustee Buheita Fujiwara was elected to a three-year term to the Kiwanis International Board of Trustees during the Asia- Pacific District Convention held in Nepal in March 2020. He represents the Asia-Pacific region of Kiwanis International. A 22-year member of Kiwanis, Buheita has served as governor of the Japan District, chairman of Kiwanis Japan […]

Buheita Fujiwara

Kiwanis Childrens Fund, KI-EF 2022-2023 Filip Delanote of Leisele, Belgium, has been appointed president of the Kiwanis Children’s Fund, a nonprofit foundation that supports Kiwanis International’s mission of serving the children of the world. Delanote will serve as president during the 2022-23 Kiwanis year. He also served as the Kiwanis Children’s Fund treasurer in 2020-21 […]

Filip Delanote

KI CEO Stan D. Soderstrom of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA has served as the executive director for Kiwanis International and the Kiwanis Children’s Fund since 2010. Kiwanis International is a worldwide service organization in more than 80 nations. His background includes global and community-based work in the public and private sectors. A native of Amarillo, Texas, Stan earned his undergraduate degree at Texas […]

Stan Soderstrom

KI Immediate Past President Lee Kuan Yong of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, was elected to a one-year term as president-elect of Kiwanis International at the 2023 Kiwanis International Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He served as a trustee of Kiwanis International from 2011-14. Lee served as president of Kiwanis International in 2024-25.  Lee has served on […]

Lee Kuan Yong

KI Imm. Past President 2024-2025 Katrina Baranko of Albany, Georgia, U.S., was elected to a one-year term as president of Kiwanis International at the Kiwanis International Convention in June 2023. She is serving as president of Kiwanis International in 2023-24.   Baranko had previously been elected vice president at a special meeting held in June 2021 in […]

Katrina J. Baranko

KI President 2022-2023 Bert West of Divide, Colorado, U.S., was elected to a one-year term as president of Kiwanis International at the 2022 Kiwanis International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was elected as a trustee of Kiwanis International in 2016. An active, third-generation Kiwanis member of more than 34 years, West is proud to advocate […]

Bert West