43rd IUPAC Council Meeting
Beijing, China, 20-21 August 2005
43rd
IUPAC General Assembly
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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 2005 must be received by the Secretary General
at the IUPAC Secretariat before 20 June 2005, i.e., two months before
the start of the Council meeting (Bylaw 2.221). The situation for each
position is set out below:
President
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Prof.
Bryan R. Henry (Canada), Vice President and President-Elect,
becomes President on 1 January 2006 (Statute 4.2).
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Vice PresidentVacancy
The vice president to be elected at the 43rd Council Meeting will
be president-elect, and will become president on 1 January 2008.
Nominations for vice president received are as follows:
- Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (India) >
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- Kazuko Matsumoto (Japan) >
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- Nicole Moreau (France) >
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Past-President
The retiring President, Prof.
Leiv K. Sydnes (Norway), 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.
Treasurer
Dr. Christoph
F. Buxtorf (Switzerland), the present Treasurer, was elected to
a second four-year term (2004-2007) in 2003.
Bureau (Six 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 42nd Council in Ottawa,
there were ten Elected Members of the Bureau. At the 43rd 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 2005, who
are not eligible for reelection, but may be nominated for another office:
Dr. Edwin P.
Przybylowicz (USA) and Prof.
Gus Somsen (Netherlands).
Elected Members of Bureau, retiring in 2005, who
are eligible for reelection for a further four-year period:
Prof. Chunli Bai
(China); Prof.
S. Chandrasekaran (India); Prof.
Robert G. Gilbert (Australia); and Dr.
Alan Smith (UK)
Elected Members of Bureau,
who were elected at the 42nd Council until 2007:
Dr. Anders Kallner
(Sweden); Prof. Dr.
Werner Klein (Germany); Prof.
Nicole J. Moreau (France); Prof.
Oleg M. Nefedov (Russia).
At least six Elected Members of the Bureau must
be elected at the 43rd Council in Beijing, i.e., the minimum number
of ten Elected Members (Statute 7.2) less the four Elected Members who
continue in office until 2007.
Nominations for Bureau received as of 20 June
2005 (the statutory deadline), are as follows:
- Chunli Bai (China) - reappointment >
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- Dusan Berek (Slovakia) >
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- Srinivasan Chandrasekaran (India) - reappointment >
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- Paul De Bièvre (Belgium) >
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- Abu Mahmood (Bangladesh) >
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- Kazuko Matsumoto (Japan) >
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- Stanislaw Penczek (Poland) >
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- Elsa Reichmanis (USA) >
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- Ivan Schopov (Bulgaria) >
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- Alan Smith (UK) - reappointment >
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- Maria van Dam-Mieras (Netherlands) >
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The situation -as
of 1 May 2005- is published in Chem.
Int.
27(4), 17-25, 2005.