Category: Council, Bureau
Nominees for Election of Officers and Bureau Members - 46th IUPAC Council Meeting - San Juan, Puerto Rico, 3-4 August 2011
46th IUPAC Council Meeting
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 3-4 August 2011
According to IUPAC statutes, Council must elect officers of the Union and elected members of the Bureau. Nominations for the various positions that fall vacant at the end of 2011 had to be received by the Secretary General at the IUPAC Secretariat before 3 June 2011 (i.e., two months before the start of the Council meeting).
Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi (Japan), Vice President and President-Elect will be president on 1 January 2012. The Vice President to be elected will be President-Elect on 1 January 2012 and will become President on 1 January 2014. The retiring President, Nicole Moreau (France), will remain an officer and a member of the Bureau for a period of two years. Secretary General David StC. Black (Australia) will retire after completing two four-year terms. Treasurer John Corish (Ireland) was elected to a four-year term 2007-2011 and is eligible for a second four-year term.
The nominations received for Vice President are as follows:
- Mark C. Cesa (USA)
- Natalia Tarasova (Russia)
The nominations received for Secretary General are as follows:
- René Deplanque (Germany)
- Anders Kallner (Sweden)
The only nomination received for Treasurer is as follows:
- John Corish (Ireland)
Elected Members of Bureau, retiring in 2011, who are not eligible for re-election, but may be nominated for another office:
- Anders Kallner (Sweden)
- Werner Klein (Germany)
Elected Members of the Bureau, retiring in 2011, who are eligible for re-election for an additional four-year term:
- Ram Lamba (Puerto Rico)
- Natalia Tarasova (Russia)
Elected Members of Bureau, who were elected at the 45th Council until 2013:
- Colin Humphris (UK)
- Stanislaw Penczek (Poland)
- Elsa Reichmanis (USA)
- Maria van Dam–Mieras (Netherlands)
- Itamar Willner (Israel)
- Qi-Feng Zhou (China/Beijing)
At least four Elected Members of the Bureau must be elected at the 46th Council in San Juan, i.e., the minimum number of ten Elected Members (Statute 7.2) less the six Elected Members who continue in office until 2013.
The nominations received for Elected Members of the Bureau are as follows:
- Russell J. Boyd (Canada)
- Christopher M. A. Brett (Portugal)
- Tavarekere K. Chandrashekar (India)
- Francesco de Angelis (Italy)
- Javier García-Martínez (Spain)
- George Horvai (Hungary)
- Venčeslav Kaučič (Slovenia)
- Wolfram Koch (Germany)
- Ram Lamba (Puerto Rico)
- Natalia Tarasova (Russia)
Short bios of the nominees are here available for download [pdf file - 482kB].