Tokyo, 15-16 September 2009 - EC Meeting

Participants:
Members: Howard Alper (The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC), Chen Zhu
Minister of Health, P.R. China; Australian Academy of Science, Kurt Lambeck, Bangladesh Academy of
Sciences, M. Shamsher Ali, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Sergio Pastrana, Academy of Scientific
Research and Technology (ASRT), Egypt, Ashraf Shaalan, Union of German Academies of Sciences and
Humanities, Alfred Pühler; Science Council of Japan, Ichiro Kanazawa; 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

Ex Officio: M.H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, TWAS

IAP: Joanna C.R. Lacey, Senior Project Assistant, IAP

Observers: IAC: Robbert Dijkgraaf, and John Campbell (IAC). ICSU: Reiko Kuroda

Others: Nur Marini Saari, Norihisa Doi, Hideaki Karaki, Noriko Nakamura, Ed Noort, James Wilsdon,
Wang Zhenyu, Ling Thompson, Wang Liji, Li Mingzhu, and Li Xiang (MOH), Tieniu Tan (CAS)

Guests: M. Clegg (US NAS)

Apologies for absence: Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Hernan Chaimovich, P. de Goes; IAMP Co-
Chairs.