At its meeting in Athens, Greece in June 2010, the IAHR Council elected the Nominating Committee (2011 NC) for the 2011 Council election. The 2011 NC was chaired by Helmut Kobus (Germany) - former IAHR President - and comprised Daniel Farias (Argentina), Ana Maria da Silva (Canada), Forrest Holly (USA), Wang Lianxiang (China), Hajime Nakagawa (Japan), Roger Nokes (New Zealand), Peter Davies (UK) and Giampaolo di Silvio (Italy). IAHR President Nobuyuki Tamai (Japan) was the Council contact person.
The NC collected proposals from individual and institute members, searched itself for candidates, and evaluated the performance of present Council members in view of their possible re-election. It considered the alignment of candidates with Council composition requirements, including the question of progression of Council Members to Vice Presidential positions or to the Presidency. The Slate of Candidates was published in Newsflash and Hydrolink Issue 1, 2011. Following publishing of this list, members were provided with a two month period for submitting further candidates by petition.
The final list of Candidates is as follows:
- For President (one position): Aronne Armanini and Roger Falconer
- For Secretary General (one position): Ramon Gutierrez Serret
- For VP Europe (one position): Jean- Paul Chabard
- For VP APD (one position): Zhaoying Wang
- For VP Americas (one position): Marian Muste and Angelos Findikakis
- Council Member APD (three positions): Changkuan Zhang, Bruce Melville, Toshiharu Kojiri, Vallam Sundar, Hyoseop Woo,James Ball.
- Council Member for Europe (three positions): Reinhard Hinkelmann, Arthur Mynett, Jorge Matos, Ole Mark, Michele Mossa, Francisco Taveira-Pinto.
- Council Member for the Americas (two positions): Arturo Marcano, Rob Ettema, Ciro Menendez
Presentation of the NC Slate of Candidates [PDF]
If the Nominating Committee has not included your suggestion in its slate or if you have another suitable candidate not hitherto considered, all members have the option to file a nomination by petition within two months after publication of the NC 2011 slate, i.e.before March 1, 2011. The new election procedure gives any group of members in the Association, which feels that its interests are not properly taken into account by the NC 2011 slate, the chance to submit nominations by petition for any of the eight regular Council member positions. A valid petition requires signatures of 15 members from at least five countries or from a group of countries representing 10% of the IAHR membership. This assures that there is support for a candidate which goes beyond a personal or national interest. All valid nominations by petition will be included in the ballot.
Nominations by Petition must be submitted to the Secretariat within two months after publication of the NC slate of candidates with a statement from the candidate, that she or he is willing to accept the nomination, a resumé including professional career, involvement in IAHR, and a statement on the planned contribution as Council member.
The deadline for nomination by petition has now passed.
NC 2011 Chair:
Prof. Dr. Helmut Kobus
Email: Kobus@iws.uni-stuttgart.de
Council Contact person:
Prof, Nobuyuki Tamai, IAHR President
Email: tamai@kanazawa-gu.ac.jp