The 38th Council (2020-2021) were elected in February 2020 for a period of one year. Its membership is as follows:
Presidency:
Council meetings are be presided over by the President or, in his/her absence, by the Vice-President. Both officeholders are entitled to attend the meetings of the Executive Bureau and support the latter in its mandate to represent the Council.
Catherine Peck Arif (President)
Olivier Meyer (Vice-President)
Executive Bureau:
The Executive Bureau acts as the Council’s executive. It implements the decisions of the Council and represents it before management and other bodies. It meets on a weekly basis. It is headed by the Executive Secretary, assisted by the Deputy Executive Secretary. The President and Vice-President are non-voting members. It is constituted as follows:
Prisca Chaoui (Executive Secretary)
Mohamed Bali (Deputy Executive Secretary)
Cédric Jacquiot
Dan Lin
Jamshid Gaziyev
Kalman Kalotay
Philippe Duparc
Other members of the 38th Council:
Anna Aleksandrova
Francis Almario
Mario Apostolov
Iain Bald
Dominique Chantrel
Niraj Dawadi
Elizabeth James
Paul Kelly
Anjum Khan
Aminata Monnet
Angelique Ruhana Mukamusoni
Alina Novikova
Ian Richards
Laura Sheldon Johnson
Bradford Smith
Marko Stanovic
Release for staff representation functions
Staff representation is considered as official business. To this end, members of the Council are entitled to the following release for staff representational functions (as per General Assembly resolution A/C.5/50/64):
- Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary: up to 100 percent.
- President, Vice-President, Executive Bureau members: up to 32 hours a month.
- Other members of the Council: 10 hours a month.