UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION International Hydrological Programme (IHP) 33 RD (EXTRAORDINARY) SESSION OF THE IHP BUREAU Paris, 16 June 2002 Final Report UNESCO, Paris 2002 (SC-2002/CONF.205/CLD.37)
Page 1 1. The 33 rd (extraordinary) session of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) was convened at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 16 June 2002 at 5:00 PM. Mr R. Feddes (The Netherlands), Chairperson, and the following Vice-Chairpersons attended the meeting: Mr W. Strupczewski (Poland), Mr C. Castaño Uribe (Colombia) and Mr K. Takeuchi (Japan). Mr A. Afouda (Benin) and Mr M. Benbiba (Morocco) were unable to attend and sent their apologies. The list of participants is annexed. The Bureau had only one agenda item to consider nominations for the Governing Board of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. 2. This extraordinary session was foreseen by the 32 nd session of the IHP Bureau (Paris, 4-5 March 2002) in the event that no consolidated nomination list for membership in the Governing Board of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education would have been established by 1 May 2002 (ref: paragraph 9 of document IHP/IC-Bur-XXXII/3 Final Report of the 32 nd session of the IHP Bureau). 3. The Bureau reviewed the list of candidates and recalled the Terms of Reference for nominations. It also emphasized that, next to academic excellence, international professional and leadership experience, members elected by IHP into the Governing Board of the Institute should also be able to represent and promote water education in the public and political arena. Furthermore, their knowledge of the Institute and that of the IHP would be an additional asset. The Bureau considered broad representation of water related scientific disciplines. 4. The Bureau decided to recommend to the 15 th session of the Intergovernmental Council of IHP the adoption of the following nominees to represent IHP in the Governing Board of the Institute for the duration of four years. The nomination refers to an equitable geographical distribution according to the electoral regions. Group I Western Europe and North America Prof. Dr. Alexander Zehnder Director General of Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Switzerland (Microbiology) Group II Eastern and Central Europe Prof. Dr. Zdzislaw Kaczmarek Director, Water Resources Department Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (Hydrology) Group III Latin America and the Caribbean Prof. Dr. Jerson Kelman President-Director of the National Water Agency, Brazil (Water Resources Management)
Page 2 Group IV Asia and the Pacific H.E. Prof. Dr. Reza Ardakanian Deputy Minister for Water Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Director Regional Center for Urban Water Management, Iran (Water Resources Engineering) Group Va Africa H.E. Ms Lidia Brito Prof. Dr., Minister of Higher Education, Research and Technology, Mozambique (Forestry) Group Vb Arab States H.E. Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, President of the World Water Council Honorary Fellow of IHE, Egypt (Irrigation Engineering and Water Policy) 5. The Bureau acknowledged the large number of nominations of excellent professionals and academics it received from all electoral regional. It invites the Institute and those highly-qualified candidates who were not nominated to the Board to collaborate in the achievement of the Institute s objectives and to contribute, among others, to the linguistic plurality of water education world wide. 6. The Chairperson brought the 33 rd (extraordinary) session to a close at 5:45 PM on 16 June 2002.
Annex ANNEX LIST OF PARTICIPANTS I. MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU II. UNESCO SECRETARIAT Chairperson: Mr Reinder A. Feddes University of Wageningen Nieuwe Kanaal 11 6709 PA Wageningen, The Netherlands Tel: +31 317 48 28 75 Fax: +31 317 48 48 85 Email: reinder.feddes@users.whh.wau.nl Vice-Chairpersons: Mr Carlos Alfonso Castaño Uribe Director General Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM) Diagonal 97, No. 17-60 Piso 3 Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia Tel: +57 1 6356035 Fax: +57 1 6356130 Email: direccion@ideam.gov.co Mr Witold G. Strupczewski Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences Ul. Ks. Janusza 64 PL-01 452 Warsaw, Poland Tel: +48 22 691 5853 Fax: +48 22 691 5915 Email: wgs@igf.edu.pl Mr Kuniyoshi Takeuchi Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering Yamanashi University Takeda 4, Kofu 400, Japan Tel: +81 552 20 86 03 Fax: +81 552 53 49 15 Email: takeuchi@mail.yamanashi.ac.jp International Hydrological Programme Division of Water Sciences (SC/HYD) 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cédex 15 France Tel: +33 1 45 68 00 01 Fax: +33 1 45 68 58 11 Email: ihp@unesco.org Mr András Szöllösi-Nagy Deputy Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences Secretary IHP Director, Division of Water Sciences Tel: +33 1 45 68 40 01 Email: a.szollosi-nagy@unesco.org Mr Abdin Salih Deputy Secretary IHP Tel: + 33 1 45 68 39 98 Email: a.salih@unesco.org Mr Janos Bogardi Chief, Section on Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management Tel: +33 1 45 68 40 06 Email: j.bogardi@unesco.org Mr José Alberto Tejada-Guibert Section on Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management Tel: +33 1 45 68 40 96 Email: ja.tejada-guibert@unesco.org
Annex page 2 Mr Mike Bonell Chief, Section on Hydrological Processes Tel: +33 1 45 68 39 96 Email: m.bonell@unesco.org Mr Lalji Mandalia Section on Hydrological Processes Tel: +33 1 45 68 40 54 Email: l.mandalia@unesco.org Ms Alice Aureli Section on Hydrological Processes Tel: + 33 1 45 68 39 95 Email: a.aureli@unesco.org Mr Giuseppe Arduino Regional Hydrologist UNESCO Jakarta Office United Nations Building., 2nd Floor Jalam Thamrin 14, 1273/JKT Tromolpos Jakarta 10012, Indonesia Tel : + 62 21 321 308 Fax : + 62 21 315 0382 Email : g.arduino@unesco.org Mr Massimiliano Lombardo Associate Expert for Hydrology UNESCO Jakarta Office United Nations Building, 2 nd Floor Jalam Thamrin 14, 1273/JKT Tromolpos Jakarta 10012, Indonesia Tel : + 62 21 321 308 Fax : + 62 21 315 0382 Email : m.lombardo@unesco.org Ms Demissie Yadeta Assistant, IHP Secretariat Tel : +33 1 45 68 41 56 Email : m.demissie@unesco.org