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council of administration

The Council of Administration is the main governance body of the association. It is responsible for appointing the Director General, adopting the budget and accounts, and the program of the association for the financial year. It is composed of different kinds of members. The Council of Administration is legally responsible among others for the acts of the association.

IIAS STATUTES

1. Leadership

The IIAS President is responsible for the legal representation of the association in all matters excluding those falling upon the daily management. The IIAS President is elected by the General Assembly, on proposal of the outgoing Council of Administration, among the representatives of IIAS member countries (member states and national sections). The Chairperson of the Finance Committee assists the Council of Administration regarding the adoption of budgets and accounts, and the supervision of the Secretariat. The IIAS Past President keeps a seat in the Council of Administration with voting rights.

2. Vice-presidents

The IIAS has nine Vice-Presidents: one represents the host country (Belgium) and eight represent the regions of Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-Asia and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Western Europe. The regional Vice-Presidents represent IIAS member countries, while the host-country Vice-President represents the Belgian national section.

3. Members

The Council of Administration moreover includes up to ten additional members representing IIAS member countries.

4. Scientific administrators

Four additional administrators have specific duties of scientific nature: the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the IIAS Scientific Committee (a.k.a. PRAC), the Editor in Chief of the International Review of Administrative Sciences, and the Director of Publications. They are elected on proposition of the Director General.

5. Entities' presidents

The Council of Administration can establish entities within IIAS, whose Presidents then obtain a seat in it with voting rights. Four such entities having been established, four additional seats were granted in the IIAS Council of Administration to: the IASIA, EGPA, AGPA and LAGPA Presidents. The approval of their report entails the approval of their program of works by the Council of Administration.

6. Ex Officio Members

The Director General is an ex officio member of the Council of Administration

Current composition of the IIAS council of administration

Position

Incumbent (2022-5)

Member organization

IIAS President

Ra'ed Ben Shams (BH)

Bahrain Institute of Public Administration

IIAS Past President

Geert Bouckaert (BE)

Association belge des sciences administratives

Host-Country Vice President

Jean Bourtembourg (BE)

Association belge des sciences administratives

Chairperson of the Finance Committee

Jörg Bogumil (DE)

Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

Vice-President for Africa

Nada Biaz (MA)

Ecole Nationale Supérieure de I'Administration

Vice-President for East Asia

Liu Xuezhi (CN)

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security

Vice-President for Eastern Europe

Tamás Kaiser (HU)

National Public Service University

Vice-President for Latin America

Luis Miguel Martinez Anzures (MX)

Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

Vice-President for North America

Vacant

Vice-President for South-Asia and the Pacific

Koichiro Agata (JP)

Waseda University*

Vice-President for the Middle-East

Saud Ghazi Alotaibi

Institute of Public Administration

Vice-President for Western Europe

Alexander Balthasar (AT)

Austrian National Defence Academy

Council of Administration Member

Luisa Neto (PT)

Instituto Nacional de Administraçāo

Council of Administration Member

Edoardo Ongaro (IT)

Ministry Higher Education and Research

Council of Administration Member

Teresa Siles Suárez (ES)

Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

Council of Administration Member

Andreas Bergmann (CH)

ZHAW Shool of Management and Law

Council of Administration Member

Jeong Seon Yong (KR)

Ministry of the Interior and Safety

Council of Administration Member

Voruganti Srinivas (IN)

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Council of Administration Member

Anatole Maïna (CM)

Ministre de la Fonction Publique et de la Réforme Administrative

Council of Administration Member

Bacha Kebede Debela (ET)

Ethiopian Public Administration Association

Chairperson of the Scientific Committee (PRAC)

Hideaki Shiroyama (JP)

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Vice-Chairperson of the Scientific Committee (PRAC)

Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy (ZA)

University of KwaZulu-Natal

IRAS Editor-in-Chief

Sabine Kuhlmann (DE)

Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

Director of Publications

Paul Joyce (GB)

University of Birmingham

IASIA President

Najat Zarrouk (MA)

United Cities and Local Governments Africa

EGPA President

Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans (FR)

Sciences Po Toulouse

AGPA President

Eko Prasojo (ID)

Universitas Indonesia

LAGPA President

Ruben Echeverry (CO)

Universidad del Valle

Director General

Sofiane Sahraoui (TN)

Ex Officio
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