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According to Article 28B of the Articles of Association of the ISN every 4 years the Membership elects a new Secretary. The procedures for nomination and election of candidates are the same as those for the election of Councillors.
At the Business Meeting of ISN on August 21st, 2007 in Cancun the present Secretary, Agustina Garcia, Spain, will end her four years’ period as Secretary and be succeeded by a new Secretary to be elected in spring 2007. At the Business Meeting 2007 the present Secretary, A. Garcia, will become President of ISN for two years (Article 28 C and D). Thus far, for the period between the Business Meetings of 2007 and 2009 the ISN Officers will be as follows:
President: Agustina Garcia (Spain)
Treasurer: David Shine (USA)
Secretary: to be elected
If one includes the present 3 Officers, R. Butterworth, A. Garcia and D. Shine who till the year 2011 will successively have served as ISN Presidents, till the year 2011 the Presidents (Chairpersons) of ISN will have come from the following 9 countries:
| USA: 7 |
| UK: 4 |
| Norway: 2 |
| Denmark: 2 |
| Canada: 2 |
| Australia: 1 |
| Germany: 1 |
| Italy: 1 |
| Spain: 1 |
According to Article 41 each suggestion of a candidate for Secretary requires: i) the signature of the nominated member, ii) the signatures of 1% of the number of Ordinary Members, i.e., 15 Members (this normally would include the signature of the proposing member). Please note that not more than one third of the supporting signatures should be from one country. It is suggested that the proposing member and/or the proposed candidate arrange for the supporting signatures to be sent in the following form by February 15th, 2007, to the ISN Secretary.
Nomination Form for ISN Secretary
