IAPPS Board membership is constituted as follows:
The IAPPS Executive Team
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- Geoff Norton [President]
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- Manuele Tamo [Vice-President]
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- E “Short” Heinrichs [Secretary General]
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- Shaonpius Mondal [Treasurer]
Click on the image of the Board members for further details of their background and contact details.
The role of the Executive Team:
- To conduct the affairs of the Association in accordance with the Society’s Statutes and Bylaws and by the decisions taken by the Governing Board.
- To decide on the admission of Institutional and Affiliate members; on the selection of sites for the Regional Networks; on the nominees for Regional Network Coordinators; and on the sites for the International Plant Protection Congresses.
- Responsibility for managing the International Plant Protection Award of Distinction (IPPAD) program – An Award of Recognition Established by the Governing Board of the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences.
Regional Coordinators
Fourteen Governing Board members represent 15 geographical regions: You can see the regions they represent here.
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- Rangaswamy Muniappan [North America]
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- Bruno Zachrisson [Central America & Caribbean]
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- Nora Altier [South America]
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- Frank Ordon [West Europe]
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- Mustapha El-Bouhssini [Middle East and North Africa]
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![Diane Earnshaw [Southern Africa]](https://www.plantprotection.org/wp-content/uploads/Diana-Earnshaw-150x150.jpg)
- Diana Earnshaw [Southern Africa]
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- Souleymane Nacro (West & Central Africa)
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- Tadele Tefera [East Africa]
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- Olga Afanasenko [Eastern Europe
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- Rajan Sharma (South Asia)
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- Xueping Zhou [Central Asia]
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![Tsutomu Arie [Coordinator: North East Asia]](https://www.plantprotection.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/arie-150x150.jpg)
- Tsutomu Arie [Northeast Asia]
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- Virender Kumar [Southeast Asia]
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- Trevor Jackson [Oceania]
Industry and Institutional Representatives
The following Board members provide additional contributions to IAPPS activities.
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- Baruch Rubin [Chair: Advisory Committee]
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- Srinivasan Ramasamy [AIRCA Representative]
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- Roma Gwynn [Biopesticide Representative]
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- Eris Tjamos [Chair-IPPC Athens (2023)]
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- Shoki Al-Dobai [FAO Representative]
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- Maggie Yang [Elsevier Publisher]
