Officers

(Click here for guidelines to become a member of the council, IGEO)

Executive Committee

Chair Nir Orion, Israel
Vice-Chair (Elected) Sharon Locke, USA
Past Chair Roberto Greco, Brazil
Secretary Tiago Ribeiro, Portugal
Treasurer Rosely Imbernon
Web Manager Takashi Sawaguchi, Japan
Newsletter Editor Michael Passow, USA
Next Conference Convenor TBA
Co-opted advisor Tanja Reinhardt
Co-opted advisor  Shankar Rajasekhariah, India

Council Members

Country Council member
Argentina Jose Selles-Martinez (Pepe)
Australia Bronte Nicholls
Greg McNamara
Bangladesh Afia Akhtar
M. D. Nazwanul Haque
Bolivia Wilfredo Ramos
Brazil Celso Dal Re Carneiro
Pedro Wagner Concales
Rosely Imbernon
Denise Bacci
Bulgaria Tador Todorov
Radoslav Nakov
Stefka Pristavov
Canada Lesley Hymers
John Clague
Chile Maria Jesus Bravo Perez
China Shao Yanxiu
Xuran Zuo
Cuba Yosbanis Cervantes
Denmark Rie Hjørnegaard Malm
Egypt Kholoud Mohamed
Moataz El-Shafeiy
Finland Mia Kotilainen
Seija Kultti
France Jacqueline Rivault
Florence Le Hebel
Jean-luc Berenguer
Germany Sylke Hlawatsch
Dirk Felzmann
Greece Georgia Fermeli
Giouli Mavrogonatou
India Shankar Rajasekharaiah
R. Baskar
B. W. Pandey
Indonesia Hendra Amijaya
Iran Mina Alaeddini
Hanieh Bakhshaee
Israel Nir Orion
Yossi Gudovitch
Italy Eleonora Paris
Susanna Occhipinti
Japan Yoshisuke Kumano
Kazakhstan Zhanat Ismail
Kyrgyzstan Buras Boljiev
Namazova Guliza
Korea Chan-Jong Kim
Young-Shin Park
Kuwait Hafez Albahrani
Malawi Elyvin Nkhonjera
Yvonne Noushefransiska Mwalwenje
Zuze Dulanya
Malaysia Jasmi Hafiz Abdul Aziz
Mauritius B. Lalljee
Morocco Ezzoura Errami
Namibia Benjamin Mapani
Kombada Mhopjeni
Nepal Pawan Kumar Acharya
Shreedhar Dhakal
New Zealand Glenn Vallender
Alan Munro
Norway Merethe Froyland
Kari Beate Remmen
Rie Hjørnegaard Malm
Pakistan Waqas Khalid Khokher
Syed Amer Mahmood
Saima Siddiqui
Paraguay Romina Mariel Celabe Gaona
Peru
Philippines Miguel Cano
Portugal Luís Dourado
Clara Vasconcelos
Russia Evgeny Nesterow
Pavel Egaiov
South Africa Ian McKay
Gillian Drennan
Tanja Reinhardt
Spain Amelia Calonge
Xavier Juan
Sri Lanka Ashvin Wickramasooriya
A. Pitawala
Taiwan Chun-Yen Chang
Fang-Ying Yang
Turkey Nizamettin Kazancı
Togo Doh Koffi ADDOR
USA Sharon Locke
Steve Anderson
UK Iain Stewart
Zambia Imasiku Nyambe

 

Guidelines to become a Member of the Council, IGEO

A person who would like to become a member of the IGEO Council will be involved in geoscience education at some level in his / her country, will have a good network of geoscience teachers/ geoscientists and geoscience institutions/ organizations in his/ her country and will have the support of local institutions.

Further, in order to represent a country on the IGEO Council, the person should submit the following two documents by email executive-committee@igeoscied.org for the attention of IGEO Chair:

  • A personal letter of intent including the following topics:
    • why s/he wants to represent her/his country on the IGEO Council;
    • a brief description of the status and profile of Earth Science Education in her/his country;
    • a realistic strategy for improving the status and profile of Earth Science Education in her/his country, including how others might be involved;
    • how s/he intends to contribute to this strategy.
  • A letter of support from the geological society, geological survey, or other institution of the country, indicating that the geological community supports this person and is interested in contributing to IGEO’s aims.