As a Board member of ISES, you represent the Society and have fiduciary responsibilities. It is important to consider this role in your professional work.
However, there may be times when it is important to use your status as a Board member to add to your expertise in providing letters of support, nominations for certain government committees or panels, responding to request for information, testimony for legal cases, etc. In those situations, it is okay to state that you are a Board Member and it is important to add a disclosure that your role in these cases does not represent the view point of the Society. Here is some suggested language that can be adapted.
“I am on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Exposure Science. I provide these comments under my personal capacity and expertise, and they do not constitute official positions of the International Society of Exposure Science.”
As a past Board member, there may be opportunities where it is important to highlight that role as part of your expertise, but the disclaimer would no longer be necessary.
