Election of IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members
Election of IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members
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 2013 had to be received by the Secretary General at the IUPAC Secretariat before 13 June 2013 (i.e., two months before the start of the Council meeting).
On 1 January 2014, Mark Cesa (USA), vice president and president elect, will become president. The vice president to be elected will be president elect on 1 January 2014 and will become president on 1 January 2016. Kazuyuki Tatsumi (Japan), current president, will become past president and remain an officer and a member of the Bureau for a period of two years. Meanwhile, Nicole Moreau (France), current past president, will retire while Secretary General René Deplanque (Germany) and Treasurer John Corish (Ireland) who were elected to four-year terms, 2012–2015, will continue their service for two more years.
| Election Ballot | Vice President | Gabriel A. Infante (Puerto Rico) - nomination retracted | Natalia Tarasova (Russia) | Qi-Feng Zhou (China/Beijing)Bureau | Russell J. Boyd (Canada) | Tavarekere K. Chandrashekar (India) | Richard Hartshorn (New Zealand) | Colin Humphris (UK) | Christopher K. Ober (USA) | Pietro Tundo (Italy) | Jean-Pierre Vairon (France) | Kaoru Yamanouchi (Japan) | Qi-Feng Zhou (China/Beijing) |
At its assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, on 14–15 August 2013, the Council will be asked to elect a vice president and members of the Bureau to fulfill the vacancies created by retiring members (see March-April 2013 CI for details; www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2013/3502/iw1_election.html).
Details on the election, including biographies of the nominees, are available online. To make your voice heard, contact your National Adhering Organization and get involved.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- From the Editor
- Contents
- Vice President’s Column
- IUPAC, OPCW, and the Chemical Weapons Convention
- Green Chemistry in Japan
- International Training in Pesticide Ecological Risk Assessment
- Election of IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members
- Winners of 2013 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists
- Recipients of the IUPAC 2013 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Awards
- Green Chemistry for Life
- From Macro2012 to Macro2014
- Thieme–IUPAC Prize 2014 Call for Nominations
- Polymer International–IUPAC Award–Call for Nominations
- Research Integrity–The Montreal Statement
- ICSU Consults on Open Access
- Description of Materials on the Nanoscale
- IUPAC Safety Training Program – Istanbul Workshop
- Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Atomic Weights of the Elements 2011 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Glossary of Terms Relating to Thermal and Thermomechanical Properties of Polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)
- Polymer Nomenclature
- Welcome Home, Flerovium!
- The ACS International Center: The New Way to Discover International Opportunities
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- Science for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development
- Advanced Polymeric Materials
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