News in 2022
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The FIG General Assembly is going to elect two new Vice President and a new President for the coming term 2023-2026.
The current President, Rudolf Staiger, together with two of the four vice presidents, Diane Dumashie and Jixian Zhang will end their term at the end of 2022. Mikael Lilje and Kwame Tenadu were elected last year (one year delayed due to the postponement of the General Assembly in 2020) for the term 2021-2024.
At the second General Assembly session on 11 September the candidates will have the possibility to present themselves. They have however all made a video presentation of themselves and presentation material.
Please find here an intoduction to each of the candidates. They have all submitted material for emails to members and also a video.
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Abbas Rajabifard, Surveying Spatial Sciences Institute SSSI,
Australia nomination | supporting letter | email to members | email 2 to members Web site: https://www.abbasrajabifard.com/ > Watch Abbas Rajabifard's introduction video |
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Diane Dumashie, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors RICS,
UK nomination | supporting letter | email to members Flyer > Watch Diane Dumashie's introduction video |
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Orhan Ercan, Turkish Chamber of Survey and Cadastre Engineers
HKMO, Turkey nominatiON | supporting letters | email to members Flyer > Watch Orhan Ercan's introduction video |
GIM magazine has published an article with questions to the three candidates. Please read the editorial and also the article in the GIM International Issue 4 2022
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Brian Davies, Canadian Institute of Geomatics CIG, Canada nomination | supporting letter | email to members > Watch Brian Davies' introduction video |
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Daniel Steudler, GEOSUISSE, Switzerland nomination | supporting letter | email to members > Watch Daniel Steudler's introduction video |
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Qin Yan, Chinese Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and
Cartography CSGPC, China nomination | supporting letter | email to members > Watch Qin Yan's introduction video |
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Winnie Shiu, National Society of Professional Surveyors NSPS,
USA nomination | supporting letter | email to members Flyer > Watch Winnie Shiu's introduction video |
The candidates will present themselves in the second General Assembly session on 11 September 2022 13:00-15:30 CET. This will take place in Warsaw Poland, as part of the FIG Congress. It is also possible to follow the session online. Elections will take place online.
The election of the two Vice Presidents will start shortly after the second General Assembly session on Sunday 11 September. There can be up to four election rounds.
The election of President will start on Tuesday 13 September and there will be one or two rounds of voting.
Eligible to vote are member associations. Each member association in good standing has been asked to submit one official candidates who will receive the voting emails and cast the votes.
The General Assembly sessions 2 and 3 will take place during the FIG Congress.
Read more about the FIG Congress at:
www.fig.net/fig2022
It is still possible to register for online participation.
Louise Friis-Hansen
31 August 2022
