IFMS Steering Committee

The Steering Committee will consist of six-to-eight members with at least one representative from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. The Steering Committee will conduct its business by occasional electronic or telephonic meetings and make available to all members a summary of those meetings. Steering Committee members will serve no more than two consecutive terms, each term lasting a period equal to the interval between successive global IFMS meetings. Terms will begin and end with successive global meetings. Rotation will be such that approximately half the members will be new members and approximately half will be members in their second term. The IFMS Steering Committee members will select their chairperson. Nominations for Steering Committee members may be made by any member IFMS society; nominations will be submitted to the Steering Committee at least three months prior to the next global IFMS meeting, and a ballot will be submitted to the members for a vote at the global meeting.

Steering Committee decisions will be reached by consensus whenever possible; where consensus cannot be reached, then decisions will be made by a simple majority vote of the full Steering Committee membership; written proxies will be recognized.

Interim Steering Committee Representation:

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) – Walter DABBERDT, 2008 President
• Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society – Richard WARDLE, 2008-09 President (interim steering committee rep from AMOS)
  
• Chinese Meteorological Society – QIN Dahe, President
  
• Ethiopian Meteorological Society (EMIBAMA) – Workneh DEGEFU, President
  
• European Meteorological Society (EMS) – Fritz NEUWIRTH, President
  
• India Meteorological Society – R.C. BHATIA, President
  
• Latino American Federation Meteorological Societies (FLISMET) – Juan Manuel HORLER, President
  
• Centro Argentino de Meteorologos (CAM) – Juan Manuel HORLER, President

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