IUGG Governance
Council
IUGG’s affairs are directed by the Union Council governed by the Statutes and By-Laws of the Union. Until 2015 the Union Council Delegates were appointed only for the duration of Council meetings held at IUGG General Assemblies and, therefore, major decisions could only be taken every four years. To modernize the Union’s practices and improve flexibility in decision-making, the IUGG Council meeting in Prague in June 2015 took a decision to extend the term of office of Council Delegates to 4 years (the time between two consecutive Council meetings).
According to the IUGG Statutes, “between meetings of the Council, the direction of the affairs of the Union shall be vested in the Bureau and the Executive Committee” with specific responsibilities defined in the Statutes. Responsibilities of the permanent Council will be to consider, discuss and decide on major scientific proposals, initiatives, and urgent administrative issues of the Union, which the Bureau and the Executive Committee consider important, and a decision requires voting by the Council.
The IUGG Council is composed of one credentialed delegate from each Adhering Body. The IUGG Council Delegates (2019-2023) are listed below.
Bureau of the Union
The IUGG Bureau handles administrative affairs between Council meetings. It is elected by the Council and consists of seven members – four officers (President, President-Elect, Secretary General, and Treasurer) and three members at large. Bureau members must represent countries with dues paid in full.
President:
Chris Rizos
Surveying & Geospatial Engineering
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
President-Elect:
Mioara Mandea
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
(CNES)
2, Place Maurice Quentin
75001 Paris
FRANCE
Secretary General:
Alexander Rudloff
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
GERMANY
Treasurer:
Niels Andersen
Technical University of Denmark
National Space Institute
DTU Space, Elektrovej
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
DENMARK
Member:
Athena Coustenis
Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation
en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris
5, place Jules Janssen
92195 Meudon
FRANCE
Member:
Andrew Mackintosh
School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment
Monash University, Faculty of Science
9 Rainforest Walk
Clayton, Victoria 3800
AUSTRALIA
Member:
Virendra Tiwari
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
North East Institute of Science & Technology (CSIR-NEIST)
Jorhat-785006, Assam
INDIA
Executive Secretary
(a non-voting member
of the Bureau):
Franz Kuglitsch
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Telegrafenberg, A17
14473 Potsdam
GERMANY
Past Officers of the IUGG
IUGG Executive Committee 2023
The IUGG Executive Committee works to further the scientific objectives of the Union and International Associations by effective co-ordination and formulation of general policies. It consists of the IUGG Bureau, the IUGG Immediate Past President, and the Presidents of the International Associations.
Current Executive Committee of the Union
According to Article 10 of the Statutes of IUGG the Executive Committee consists of: Members of the Current Bureau of the Union (see above), the IUGG Immediate Past President and the Presidents of the International Associations.
IUGG Immediate Past President:
Kathryn Whaler
The University of Edinburgh
School of Geosciences
James Hutton Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FE
UK
IACS President:
Liss M. Andreassen
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)
Section for Glaciers, Ice and Snow,
Hydrology Department
P.O. Box 5091 Majorstua, 0301 Oslo
NORWAY
IAG President:
Richard Gross
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena
CA 91109
USA
IAGA President:
Andrew Yau
University of Calgary
Department of Physics and Astronomy
2500 University Dr NW, Calgary AB T2N1N4
CANADA
IAHS President:
Berit Arheimer
Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute
Research and Development / Hydrology
601 76 Norrköping
SWEDEN
IAMAS President:
Andrea Flossmann
Université Clermont-Auvergne
Laboratoire de météorologie physique, 4 avenue Blaise Pascal
63178 Aubière Cedex
FRANCE
IAPSO President:
Hans van Haren
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
PO Box 59
1790 AB Den Burg
NETHERLANDS
IASPEI President:
Michelle Grobbelaar
Council for Geoscience
Private Bag X112
Pretoria, 0001
SOUTH AFRICA
IAVCEI President:
Costanza Bonadonna
Département des sciences de la Terre
Université de Genève
Rue des Maraîchers 13, 1205, Genève
SWITZERLAND
Finance Committee
The IUGG Finance Committee interacts with the IUGG Treasurer regarding budgetary matters. It consists of persons elected by the IUGG Council. The members of the Finance Committee are not members of the IUGG Bureau or the IUGG Executive Committee.
The income of the Union is derived mainly from annual contributions of the Member Countries according to a scale of categories to which each Member adheres, determined in relation to its own activities in geodesy and geophysics.
About half of the income of the Union is allocated to its Associations. A modest part of the budget is used to meet administrative costs, while the greater part of the remainder is devoted to the organization of Symposia and General Assemblies. Every year the Union subsidizes about ten Symposia.
Current IUGG Finance Committee (2023-2027)
Member:
Archana Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
Kalamboli Highway
New Panvel
Navi Mumbai, 410 218
INDIA
Member:
Priscilla Grew
University of Nebraska State Museum
of Natural History
Nebraska Hall W436, Lincoln
Nebraska 68588-0514
USA