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:
Kathryn Whaler
School of GeoSciences
The Grant Institute
The University of Edinburgh
West Mains Road, Edinburgh
EH9 3JW, UNITED KINGDOM
President-Elect:
Chris Rizos
Surveying & Geospatial Engineering
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
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:
Eduard Petrovsky
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Institute of Geophysics
Bocni II/1401
141 31 Prague 4 – Sporilov
CZECH REPUBLIC
Member:
Jun Xia
Research Institute for Water Security
School of Water Resources & Hydroelectric Engineering
Wuhan University
No. 8 South Road of East Lake, Wuchang
Wuhan 430072
CHINA
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
Executive Committee
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:
Michael Sideris
Department of Geomatics Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
CANADA
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:
Zuheir Altamimi
Université Paris Diderot
UFR STEP/IPGP/Equipe Géodésie
Bâtiment Lamarck B
35 rue Hélène Brion
75205 Paris Cedex 13, FRANCE
IAGA President:
Mioara Mandea
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
2, Place Maurice Quentin
75001 Paris
FRANCE
IAHS President:
Berit Arheimer
Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute
Research and Development / Hydrology
601 76 Norrköping
SWEDEN
IAMAS President:
Joyce Penner
University of Michigan
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, 2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2143, USA
IAPSO President:
Trevor McDougall
University of New South Wales
The School of Mathematics and Statistics
Sydney, NSW, 2052
AUSTRALIA
IASPEI President:
Kenji Satake
University of Tokyo
Earthquake Research Institute
1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, 113-0032, JAPAN
IAVCEI President:
Patrick Allard
Equipe Géologie des systèmes volcaniques
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
1 rue Jussieu
75238 Paris Cedex 5, FRANCE
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 (2019-2023)
Chair:
Corina Risso
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Departamento de Geologia
Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon 2
1428 Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
Member:
Priscilla Grew
University of Nebraska State Museum
of Natural History
Nebraska Hall W436
Lincoln
Nebraska 68588-0514
USA
Member (ad-interim; from January 2023 to July 2023):
Jan Krynski
Institute of Geodesy
and Cartography
Modzelewskiego St. 27
02-679 Warsaw
POLAND