{"id":98,"date":"2012-06-15T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatchers.eu\/content\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:24:00","slug":"board-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/its-thatchers.com\/content\/board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid2 clearfix\">\n<h2>Presidentship:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ritz-de-la-bat-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"354\" src=\"\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ritz-de-la-bat-small-scaled-e1765978405403.jpg\" alt=\"Ritz-De-La-Bat President\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-354\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>President:<\/strong> Ritz-De-La-Bat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Members of the board of ITS, International Thatching Society:<\/h3>\n<h3>Denmark<\/h3>\n<p>Ruud Conijn<br \/>\nRonald Jansen<\/p>\n<h3>France<\/h3>\n<p>Agnes Bougeard<\/p>\n<h3>Germany<\/h3>\n<p>Marco Weichert<br \/>\nNils Petersen<\/p>\n<h3>Great Britain<\/h3>\n<p>Adam Follon<br \/>\nMark Padfield<\/p>\n<h3>Holland<\/h3>\n<p>Karen Douma<br \/>\nKoen Turk<\/p>\n<h3>Hungary<\/h3>\n<div>Zoltan Szab\u00f3<\/div>\n<div>Attila Dobo<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid2 clearfix\">\n<h3>Japan<\/h3>\n<p>Kunihiro Ando<\/p>\n<h3>South Africa<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ritz-De-La-Bat<br \/>\nBernard van Niekerk<\/p>\n<h3>Sweden<\/h3>\n<p>Joar Nilsson<br \/>\nUrban Nilsson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Secretary of the ITS<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Andrew-Raffle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"290\" src=\"\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Andrew-Raffle.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Raffle, Great Britain\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-290\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Andrew Raffle, Great 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