IAC Board Convenes for Ninth Annual Meeting

During 22-23 March 2009, the Board of the InterAcademy Council will hold its ninth annual meeting in Amsterdam at the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Participants will include the following:

• Bruce Alberts, Co-Chair, Past President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• LU Yongxiang, Co-Chair, President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Howard Alper, Ex Officio Member, Co-Chair, InterAcademy Panel on International Issues
• Yucel Kanpolat, Member, President, Turkish Academy of Sciences         
• Achiel van Cauwenberghe, Ex Officio Member, Former President, International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
• Jorge Crisci representing Eduardo Charreau, Member, President, National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina
• Robin Crewe, Member, President, Academy of Science of South Africa
• Ralph Cicerone, Member, President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Member, President, African Academy of Sciences
• Nori Doi, representing Ichiro Kanazawa, Member, President, Science Council of Japan
• Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, Member, Former President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Kurt Lambeck, Member, President, Australian Academy of Science
• Volker ter Meulen, Member, President, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Martin Rees, Member, President, Royal Society of London
• Guy Laval representing Jean Salençon, Member, President, Académie des Sciences, France
• Guy de Thé,  Ex Officio Member, Co-Chair, InterAcademy Medical Panel
• M. Vijayan, Member, President, Indian National Science Academy
• Goverdhan Mehta, Observer, Former President, International Council for Science, (ICSU)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf, Observer, President, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences