The Akademio de Esperanto (AdE; English: Academy of Esperanto) is an independent body of Esperanto speakers who steward the evolution of the language by keeping it consistent with the Fundamento de Esperanto in accordance with the Declaration of Boulogne. Modeled somewhat after the Académie française and the Real Academia Española, the Akademio was proposed by L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, at the first World Esperanto Congress, and was founded soon thereafter under the name Lingva Komitato (Language Committee). This Committee had a "superior commission" called the Akademio. In 1948, within the framework of a general reorganization, the Language Committee and the Academy combined to form the Akademio de Esperanto.
The Akademio consists of 45 members and has a president, vice presidents, and a secretary. The Academy also elects "Correspondents" -- eminent individuals who are not able to regularly participate in the work of the Academy, but would like to lend their name to it. The Academy is funded by a subsidy from the Universal Esperanto Association and by donations.
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Members
Members are elected by their peers for a period of nine years, with elections being held every three years for a third of the members. Following the last elections in February 2025, the Akademio de Esperanto consists of the following members:
Javier Alcalde
BAK Giwan
Marc Bavant
Hans Becklin
Cyril Robert Brosch
Eckhard Bick
Duncan Charters
CHO Sung Ho
Markos Kramer (Marcos Cramer)
Probal Dasgupta
Simon Davies
Birke Dockhorn
Mariana Evlogieva
GONG Xiaofeng (Arko)
Grant Goodall
Edmund Grimley-Evans
Nikolao Gudskov
Maritza Gutiérrez González
HIROTAKA Masaaki
Jesper Jacobsen
Ruth Kevess-Cohen
LIU Haitao
François Lo Jacomo
Anna Löwenstein
Ahmad Mamdoohi
MAO Zifu
Valentin Melnikov
Lee Miller
Carlo Minnaja
Abel Montagut
Brian Moon
Pavel Mozhaev (Paŭlo Moĵajevo)
Jorge Rafael (Rafa) Nogueras
Marc van Oostendorp
Tim Owen
Paul Peeraerts
Jukka Pietiläinen
Fernando Pita
A. Giridhar Rao
Orlando E. Raola
Nicola Ruggiero
Alexander Shlafer
Maria Rosaria (Sara) Spanò
José Antonio Vergara
Amri Wandel
Bertilo Wennergren
Former members have included Gaston Waringhien, Rüdiger Eichholz, Jorge Camacho, Victor Sadler, Michel Duc-Goninaz, Lena Karpunina, and William Auld (president, 1979–1983).
Correspondents
As of February 2025, these are the Correspondents of the Academy: Wael Al-Mahdi, Joakim Enwall, Sabine Fiedler, Federico Gobbo, Ingrid Maier, Melanie Maradan, Veronika Poór, Keyhan Sayadpour Zanjani, and Esther Schor.