44th IUPAC Council Meeting
Torino, Italy, 11-12 August 2007
44th
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Election of Officers and Bureau Members
According to Statute 5.401, Council must elect:
- Officers of the Union
- Elected Members of the Bureau
Nominations for the various positions that fall
vacant at the end of 2007 must be received by the Secretary General
at the IUPAC Secretariat before 11 June 2007, i.e., two months before
the start of the Council meeting (Bylaw 2.221). The situation for each
position is set out below:
PresidentVacancy
The president to be elected at the 44th Council Meeting will be
president on 1 January 2008.
Nominations for president received are as follows:
- Jung-Il Jin (Korea)
- Anders Kallner (Sweden)
- Nicole J. Moreau (France)
Vice PresidentVacancy
The vice president to be elected will be president-elect on 1 January
2008 and will become president on 1 January 2010.
Nominations for vice president received are as follows:
- Jung-Il Jin (Korea)
- Nicole J. Moreau (France)
Past-President
The retiring President, Bryan
R. Henry (Canada), will remain an Officer (Statute
6.1) and a Member of the Bureau for a period of two years (Statute 7.2).
Secretary General
David StC. Black
(Australia), the present Secretary General, was elected to a four-year
term (2004-2007) in 2003. He is eligible for re-election for a second
four-year term. As of 11 June 2007, there were no other nominations
for Secretary General.
Treasurer
Christoph F. Buxtorf (Switzerland), the present Treasurer, completes
eight years (2000-2007) of service and is not eligible for re-election.
Nominations for Treasurer received are as
follows:
- John Corish (Ireland)
- David Schutt (USA)
Bureau (Four Vacancies Minimum)
According to Statute
7.2, the Bureau consists of the Officers, the Presidents of the
Divisions/Sections, together with not less than ten other Members elected
by Council, who shall be known as "Elected Members".
At the conclusion of the 43rd Council in Beijing,
there were ten Elected Members of the Bureau. At the 44th Council, the
Bureau will make recommendations to Council as to the number of Elected
Members (ten or more), who should be on the Bureau for the succeeding
two years.
Elected Members are elected for a period of four
years, and they are eligible for election for a second period of four
years.
No Adhering Organization shall have more than one
Elected Member of the Bureau.
Statute 7.2 also states that "the principle of fair
geographical representation of Members shall be taken into account".
Elected Members of Bureau, retiring in 2007, who
are not eligible for reelection, but may be nominated for another office:
- Nicole J. Moreau (France)
- Oleg M. Nefedov (Russia)
Elected Members of Bureau, retiring in 2007, who
are eligible for reelection for a further four-year period:
- Anders Kallner (Sweden)
- Werner Klein (Germany)
Elected Members of Bureau,
who were elected at the 43rd Council until 2009:
- Chunli Bai (China/Beijing)
- S. Chandrasekaran (India)
- Stanislaw Penczek (Poland)
- Elsa Reichmanis (USA)
- Alan Smith (UK)
- Maria C.E. van Dam-Mieras (Netherlands)
At least four Elected Members of the Bureau must
be elected at the 44th Council in Torino, i.e., the minimum number of
ten Elected Members (Statute 7.2) less the six Elected Members who continue
in office until 2009.
Nominations for Bureau received as of 11 June
2007 (the statutory deadline), are as follows:
- Dusan Berek (Slovakia)
- Giuseppe Della Gatta (Italy)
- Vladyslav Goncharuk (Ukraine)
- Minoru Isobe (Japan)
- Anders Kallner (Sweden) - reappointment
- Venceslav Kaucic (Slovenia)
- Werner Klein (Germany) - reappointment
- Ram S. Lamba (Puerto Rico)
- Natalia Tarasova (Russia)
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