Dear Presidents and Representatives of ICIAM member societies,
The ICIAM Board Meeting will take place in Tokyo on August 26th, 2023, right after the
ICIAM Congress ICIAM-2023 (which will be held in Tokyo, August 20-25, 2023).
Please note the date and talk to your representatives in the ICIAM Board so that they can
start thinking about their participation in the meeting (and hopefully in the congress too).
This meeting will include elections to the Treasurer (the current Treasurer is ELLIGIBLE for
renewal) and 3 Officers at Large (one current Officer at Large is ELLIGIBLE for renewal).
The terms, which are four years in duration, begin on October 1 of the election year.
I am the current president and the president-elect is Wil Schilders (Netherlands), whose term as
President will begin October 1, 2023. The Secretary is Suzanne Shontz (USA), whose first term is
from 2022 to 2027. The other officers are as follows:
-- Heike Fassbender (Germany), Treasurer, will have served one term in 2023. ELLIGIBLE for renewal.
-- Luis Vegas (Spain), Officer-at-Large, will have served one term in 2023. ELLIGIBLE for renewal.
-- Liliane Barichello (Brazil), Officer-at-Large, whose first term is from 2021 to 2027.
The duties of the Treasurer and Officers at Large are described in the By-Laws as follows:
The Treasurer is responsible for the funds of the organization and annually presents a report on these funds to
the Board. Therefore, he/she must be a very well organized person, accustomed to deal with accounting, and
very familiar with the use of spreadsheet/Excel management and computers. Officers-at-Large do not have
specific duties assigned by the By-Laws. At present Luis Vegas chairs the membership committee and
Lillian Barichello serves in the ISC committee. The new offices-at-large should probably be involved
in some of ICIAM's committee or as the representatives in External Committees and Bodies(/iciam-committees).
Nominations for the Treasurer and Officers at Large are solicited, and may be sent to the ICIAM President
and/or the ICIAM Secretary (president [at] iciam.org (president[at]iciam[dot]org), secretary [at] iciam.org (secretary[at]iciam[dot]org)) any time before the 2023 Board Meeting,
but preferably before May 31st, 2023, so that information may be circulated to the Board in advance. ICIAM Officers
serve without remuneration; however, reasonable officer expenses in carrying out their duties are reimbursed from ICIAM funds.
Anyone with an interest in becoming or nominating an ICIAM Officer is invited to discuss the positions with any of the current officers.
With my best regards,
Ya-xiang Yuan
ICIAM President