American Citizens Abroad Adds To Board

Editorial Staff

15 May 2026

American Citizens Abroad, the advocacy organization for US citizens living overseas, has appointed three new members to join its board of directors: Andreas Hellmann, Vlad Petrovic and Carmelan Polce.

All appointments take immediate effect.

Hellmann is director of outreach, tax and regulatory policy at the THOLOS Foundation, formerly Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a Washington, DC-based taxpayer advocacy and policy research organization. His work focuses on international taxation, digital taxation, regulatory policy, and antitrust reform. Born and raised in Germany, Hellmann recently became a US citizen.

Petrovic is a US citizen residing in Portugal, with professional experience across America including in Georgia, Illinois and Washington, DC. He has a diplomatic and international background, having served as Serbian Ambassador to the US before returning to civilian life and the US.

Carmelan Polce is a US citizen who has been living in Australia for more than 30 years. Polce, who worked for more than two decades in the finance industry in Philadelphia, Melbourne and Sydney, has been a committed advocate for expat tax reform for more than 15 years. She has a bachelor of business administration from Temple University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation also welcomed new board member John Pelletier. He serves as chief financial officer for the Crossroads of America Council, where he oversees accounting, human resources, information technology, and member services; he also provides leadership across all financial functions, including budgeting and audit. Earlier in his career, Pelletier held development and fundraising positions in several states, which included serving as director of development for the Mid-America Council in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Daniel Webster Council in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Raised in a military family, Pelletier spent 13 years of his childhood in Europe, including time in Brussels, Belgium, and Kaiserslautern, Germany.

ACA raises issues such as the need, as it sees it, to shift the US to a territorial from a worldwide system of taxation. Unlike most countries, US citizens must file annual returns regardless of where they live and the system. It means, so it is argued, that expats face a compliance burden when living and working overseas.