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Board Nominations Committee
2004-2005 Committee
Members
Stephen Granger (Chair),
South Africa
Richard Fuggle (President), South Africa
William Veerkamp (Board Liaison), The Netherlands
Elvis Au, Hong Kong
Jo Treweek, UK
Hobson Bryan, USA
Raphael Mwalyosi, Tanzania
Rita Hamm (IAIA Headquarters support)
2000-2001 Mid-term Report
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General responsibilities of this Committee:
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Obtain information from the current Board in regard to possible IAIA
strategic needs for certain types of potential candidates for next
election. |
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Establish the Nominations Committee annually, preferably at the annual
Conference. |
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Instruct new Committee members in the process of seeking out potential
candidates; strategic needs for the IAIA Board in regard to future
members; etc. |
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Put Committee members to work on seeking appropriate candidates.
Recreate the documentation that is sent to each potential candidate. |
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Write a short
article on the Nomination process, including a call for nominations by
IAIA members, for the IAIA July Newsletter. |
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Verify with IAIA CEO that identified potential candidates are IAIA
members in good standing.
Send documentation to those IAIA members who agree to become
candidates. |
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Obtain three essential documents from agreed potential candidates: |
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Letter of Commitment, ca. 300 words Bio, and answers to question(s)
designed to provide IAIA voters with a means of comparison. |
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When documentation
is received from all candidates, send all documentation to the
Committee members to approve or eliminate candidates, and assist with
the process of determining which candidates will run against which
other candidates: i.e., results in suggested structuring of the IAIA
ballot by each Committee member. Committee members individually
return their answers and any other advice to the Committee Chair. (The
2001 election slate automatically created the ballot, given the nature
of the "assignments" for each of the four positions. |
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Committee Chair prepares a draft ballot, based on the collective
results and advice provided by the Committee members. If necessary,
the Committee Chair votes to break any ties (the only circumstance
where normally the Committee Chair votes).
Draft ballot and any other essential information is conveyed to the
IAIA CEO (who has been kept informed of progress throughout the
Nominations process). |
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'00-'01 action plan: work completed as
listed above. Final results conveyed to IAIA CEO on 30-31 October 2000.
Time span for Committee's work: 16 June - 31 October 2000. |
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Action plan goals accomplished in the last
6 months. As described above. |
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Action plan goals for the next 6 months. Not applicable. |
| Comments. Obtaining strategic direction from the IAIA Board just as
the IAIA annual Conference is starting is VERY helpful for the Committee
Chair, as it feeds in to much of the work of the Committee that
follows. The Committee had two situations this year to "manage" certain
aspects of the election process. (1) The desire to provide the 1-yr.
IAIA Transition Board member with opportunity to extend the duration of
his service by standing for election to a regular three year Director
position against another appropriate Nominee. (2) Providing a choice to
a well qualified candidate whether to stand for election in 2001, or
delay for a year until 2002 when only one other of her countrymen might
be on the Board and a single candidate would run against her.
Background: depending on 2001 election results, there could have been
three Canadians on the 2001-2002 Board. The candidate was also a
somewhat different "species" than the other two candidates which she
would have run against. At the appropriate time in 2001 the Committee
Chair will confirm whether this candidate wishes to stand again in the
2002 election. |
| All candidates have been notified that their names will appear on
the ballots. |
(Submitted by
Shirley Conover) | |
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