• Richard Spruce Award:
  VP#1 + 2 appointments (recognize one IAB member who has made important contributions to bryology, within the first 25 years of their career)
   
• Hattori Award:
  VP#2 + 3 appointments (best paper or series of papers published by a member of IAB within the previous two years in a journal or book; $400 CDN)
  
  Hedwig Award:
  President prior to IBC Congress + 3 appointments (to person who has made outstanding contributions to bryology)
   
• Stanley Greene Award:
  Secretary + 2 appointments (for proposal for research in Bryology)
   
• Ricklef Grolle Award for Excellence in Bryodiversity Research:
  3 appointments
   
• Conservation Committee:
  representatives from many countries
   
• Membership Committee:
  ad hoc committee

Conservation Committee membership:
Tomas Hallingbäck (Chair)
Denise Pinheiro da Costa (Brazil)
Allan Fife (New Zealand)
Andrew Jackson (UK)
Benito C Tan (Singapore)
Cecília Sérgio (Portugal)
David Meagher (Australia) – New 05
Denise Pinheiro da Costa (Brasil) – New 05
Edwin Urmi (Switzerland)
Geert Raeymaekers (Belgium)
Jaime Aguirre Ceballos (Colombia) – New 05
Jirí Vána (Czech Republic)
Kimmo Syrjanen (Finland)
Lars Soderstrom (Norway)
Margaret Ramsay (UK)
Min S. Chuah-Petiot (Kenya)
Nadja A. Konstaninova (Russia)
Natalie Laura Cleavitt (USA) – New 05
Nick Hodgetts (UK)
Noris Salazar Allen (Panama) – New 05
René J. Belland (Canada)
Uwe Drehwald (Germany)
Yelitza Leon (Venezuela) – New 05
Zen Iwatsuki (Japan)