Nominating Committee Report

by Liti Lissner


The Nominating Committee 2003 consists of:
Liti Lissner (UNDP)  unwaweb@undp.org,
Cornelia Consolati Saravanamuttu (WFP)

Although there are only two members of the committee, the nominating work was facilitated by a lot of other members. The present Board, were extremely helpful.

We have had a very challenging time this year at the Nominating Committee. Cornelia and I called around to encourage people to work on the new Executive Board, but we were unable to find volunteers for the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Our Constitution requires the offices of the President, Vice President, and Treasurer to be filled by full members, and so in fact we were very worried that we were facing dissolution if we were unsuccessful.

Dissolution proved to be an unpopular idea to most members; and after a quick meeting with Full Members, we were able to find volunteers who were willing to save the Association from going under.

Two of the volunteers, the President-nominee and the Vice President-nominee, are willing to work on the Board until August when new and more “permanent” officers can be found. The President-nominee is a veteran member, a Past President, and full-time staff member at ICDDR,B, and the Vice President-nominee is also an “old” member, a past Treasurer and full-time mother of two very young children. But we are very happy to have them, even for a short time, because I am confident that they, like the rest of the candidates who have been duly nominated, will contribute greatly to UNWA. The candidates will be presented at the AGM in March and will be given the chance to introduce themselves.

The Nominating Committee is pleased to present the slate of candidates for the Executive Board 2003-2004:

President Vanessa Brooks USA ICDDR,B
Vice President Cornelia Consolati Saravanamuttu Germany WFP
Secretary Dammi Holbourne Sri Lanka WHO
Treasurer Allison Thomas-Hessic Trinidad UNDP
Publications Minoli De Soysa Sri Lanka ADB
Publications Co-chair Tara O’Day USA WHO
Hospitality Marika Vollmann France UNESCO
Welfare Anowara Ahmed USA UNICEF

 
The chairpersons for the following Working Committees: Activities, Membership, Nominating, UN Ball, and Website, are not elected at the AGM and are not members of the Executive Board. They are appointed by the Executive Board if it sees the need to form them. We have volunteers who are willing to work in these committees, and their names will be submitted to the new Executive Board for approval.