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Appointment of New Executive Director

John W. Jost will be the new Executive Director of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), according to an announcement today from the IUPAC Secretariat. Jost will organize and direct the IUPAC Secretariat when it moves to Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA later this year. He replaces Maurice (Mo) Williams who has headed the Secretariat for 29 years since its establishment at Oxford, UK in 1968.

Jost comes to the IUPAC post from Unocal (a large international oil company), where he has held managerial and executive positions. Born in Germany, Jost moved as a child to USA, where his education and career have been centered. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in chemistry from Columbia University, obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the State University of New York in Stony Brook in 1971, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California in Berkeley. He has been at Unocal since 1974, serving in recent years as Senior Vice- President for Administration, President of Unocal Process Technology and Licensing, and Vice-President of the Fred L. Hartley Research Center.

IUPAC President Albert Fischli pointed out that Jost's appointment comes against a backdrop of intensive evaluation of IUPAC's mission and plans for restructuring of the organization, which was founded in 1919. Fischli added, "Dr. Jost has superb qualifications to organize and manage the new Secretariat. I expect that he will build on the successes of our Secretariat under Mo Williams and will introduce enhancements to permit the Union to meet the challenges of the coming years."

To ensure continuity, transfer of functions to RTP from the present Secretariat in Oxford will be gradual. The administrative staff in Oxford will remain intact until after the biennial IUPAC General Assembly, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 23-30 August.

 


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