Nominate candidates - Names of Candidates - Elect Candidates
Members of IUCN elect the 32-member Council every four years at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Along with a President, Treasurer and three representatives from each of the Union’s eight regions, the Council also includes the Chairs of the six Commissions.
The Council functions in a similar way to a Board of Directors, meeting once or twice a year to direct IUCN strategy, approve finances and oversee Programme implementation. The Council may appoint up to six additional Councillors. All elected candidates will serve their Council term from the close of the Congress until the close of the following Congress.
IUCN members were invited to nominate candidates for consideration by Council, for the positions of President, Treasurer and Chairs of IUCN’s Commissions and to submit nominations for Regional Councillors to the IUCN Election Officer.
Council, at its 69th Meeting on 10-12 March 2008, decided to put forward the two very distinguished candidates for the position of IUCN President and an impressive list of names for the positions of Treasurer and Chairs of IUCN’s Commissions. Council also received a preliminary report from the Election Officer on the number of nominations received for Regional Councillors.
Name of Candidates
Biographical information on all candidates together with their photographs will be available shortly on the Congress web site.
President
Ashok Khosla, India
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Costa Rica
Treasurer
Kurt Ramin, Germany
Chairs of IUCN’s Commissions
Commission on Ecosystem Management:
Angela Andrade Perez, Colombia
Peter Bridgewater, Australia/UK
Gill Shepherd, UK
Hein Rune Skjoldal, Norway
Piet Wit, Netherlands
Commission on Education and Communication:
Keith Wheeler, USA
Commission on Environmental Law
Sheila Abed, Paraguay
Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Bennis Abdelhadi, Morocco
Richard Cellarius, USA
Aroha Mead, New Zealand
Species Survival Commission
Holly Dublin, USA
Simon Stuart, UK
World Commission on Protected Areas
Nikita Lopoukhine, Canada
Regional Councillor Candidates
Africa
Yolan Friedmann, South Africa
Brahim Haddane, Morocco
David Mabunda, South Africa
Hillary Masundire, Zimbabwe
Accel Ndinga-Makanda, Congo
Timothy Snow, South Africa
Meso and South America
Claudio Maretti, Brazil
Miguel Pellerano, Argentina
Zuleika S. Pinzón, Panama
North America and the Caribbean
George Greene, Canada
Sixto Inchaustegui, Dominican Republic
Russ Mittermeier, USA
Spencer Linus Thomas, Grenada
South and East Asia
Arzu Rana Deuba, Nepal
Hiroharu Koike, Japan
Tej Kumar Shrestha, Nepal
Monthip Tabucanon, Thailand
Mahfuz Ullah, Bangladesh
West Asia
Saif Ali Al-Hajari, Qatar
Samira Omar Asem, Kuwait
Abdul Aziz Mohammad Al-Mohanna, Saudi Arabia
Ali H. Darwish, Lebanon
Javed Jabbar, Pakistan
Mohammad Shahbaz, Jordan
Oceania
Lionel Gibson, Fiji
Brendan Mackey, Australia
Diana Rosemary Shand, New Zealand
East Europe, North and Central Asia
Amirkhan Amirkhanov, Russia
Vilmos Kiszel, Hungary
Jasminka Milosevic, Serbia
Kalev Sepp, Estonia
Ivan Voloscuk, Slovakia
West Europe
Hans de Iongh, Netherlands
Christophe Lefebvre, France
Marina von Weissenberg, Finland
During the Congress, on 11 October 2008, IUCN members will elect the President, Treasurer, Commission Chairs and Regional Councillors.
Only participants from member organizations whose credentials are in order will be allowed to exercise their voting rights. More information on credentials can be found here.
