Amsterdam, 24-25 March 2009 - EC Meeting

Participants:
Members: Howard Alper (The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC)); Australian Academy of Science, Kurt Lambeck, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, M. Shamsher Ali, Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Hernan Chaimovich; Cuban Academy of Sciences, Ismael Clark Arxer, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Egypt, Ashraf Shaalan, Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Günter Stock; Science Council of Japan, Hideaki Karaki; Akademi Sains Malaysia, A. Zaidee Laidin; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Robbert Dijkgraaf; Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal, M. Alassane Dialy Ndiaye; The Royal Society, UK, Lorna Casselton, M.H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, TWAS (Ex Officio), Joanna C.R. Lacey, IAP Secretariat.

Observers: IAC: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Bruce Alberts and John Campbell (IAC). ICSU: Reiko Kuroda, Deliang Chen and Goverdhan Mehta. IAMP: Guy de Thé

Others: Naiyyum Choudhury, Tracey Elliott, Shukri Ab. Wahab, Lü Yonglong, Wang Zhenyu, Miao Ling Thompson, P. de Goes, Sergio Pastrana, Norihisa Doi, Masatoshi Tsunaki, Noriko Nakamura, Ed Noort, Linda Johnson.

Guests: J. Engelbrecht (ALLEA); J. Schnitzer-Ungefug (Leopoldina); M. Clegg and J. Boright (US NAS); S. K. Sahni (INSA)

Apologies for absence: Chen Zhu (Ministry of Health, PRC) , IAP Co-Chair, V. ter Meulen (Leopoldina)