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Structure of the WASWC Council for 2008-10 (090501, amended 090822)

No.

Position

Name

Remarks

01.

President

Miodrag Zlatic

Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia. Our Host Institution.    

miodrag.zla@sbb.rs, mizlatic@yahoo.com 

02.

Deputy President

Machito Mihara

Tokyo University of Agriculture and ERECON. He operates one WASWC website for WASWC publications in Tokyo, Japan. Our Host Institution m-mihara@nodai.ac.jp

03.

Executive Secretary

Liu Zhen

Director General of Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, P.R. China Our Host Institution zhliu@mwr.gov.cn

04.

Deputy Executive Secretary

Henry Lu Shunguang

The Monitoring Center for Soil and Water Conservation, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, P.R. China. Our Host Institution lushunguang0709@sina.com

05.

Deputy Executive Secretary and Technical Center Operator (China)

Li Rui

Prof Li Rui offers WASWC members to use the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation  (our Host Institution) at Yangling, Shaanxi, China as a technical center. He has been a WASWC Vice President for Asia since 2002. He will organize LANDCON 1010 in October 2010. lirui@ms.iswc.ac.cn  

06.

Deputy Executive Secretary and Website Operator

Li Dingqiang

Director of Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangzhou, China. He has been operating a WASWC website from June ‘07. Our Host Institution dqli@soil.gd.cn, lloydli@hotmail.com

07.

Registrar

Suraj Bhan

President of Soil Conservation Society of India, our Org Mem and Host Institution. Will do registration of members and reminding the payments. He is also a VP of WASWC for India. bhan_suraj2001@yahoo.com

08.

Treasurer

John Laflen (JL)

USA, presently Treasurer and Editor-in-Chief of WASWC Journal and Proceedings. laflen@wctatel.net

09.

Editor-in-Chief (WASWC Newsletter)

Surinder Singh Kukal

Surinder Singh Kukal is Prof. of SWC, Punjab Agric. Univ. (our Host Institution), India, assisted by Sanjay Arora, Richard Fowler et al. He is also a VP of WASWC for India. sskukal@rediffmail.com

10.

Senior Associate Editor (J & P)

Rajendra Shrestha (with JL as Editor-in-Chief)

Rajendra operates the WASWC Bangkok unit of publication sending from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), our Host Institution) Bangkok, Thailand. rajendra@ait.ac.th

11.

Awards Officer (Chair of Awards Committee)

Stanimir Kostadinov

Of Belgrade University (our Host Institution) who has been functioning as Chairperson of the Awards Committee since 2005 kost@eunet.yu, kost@yubc.net

12.

Special Publications (SP) Officer

Tom Goddard

He is from Alberta Agriculture and Food, Alberta, Canada. He will take care of editing/ formatting the Special Publications (SP) of WASWC. He is also a VP of WASWC for Canada. tom.goddard@gov.ab.ca

13.

Technical Center Operator (India)

V.N. Sharda

Dr Sharda offers WASWC members to use the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute our Org Mem and Host Institution, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India as a technical center. He, as the President of the Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists, also manages the Office for WASWC Journal and Proceedings, as well as operates a website to post all works related to LANDCON. vnsharda1@rediffmail.com

14.

Immediate Past President

Samran Sombatpanit

And Editor of HOT NEWS, and Coordinator General, Assistant Treasurer, based in Bangkok, Thailand sombatpanit@yahoo.com, samran_sombatpanit@yahoo.com  

15.

 

For Africa (North)

Rachid Mrabet

He is a Research Leader at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Tangier, Morocco and a no-tillage specialist. rachidmrabet@gmail.com

16.

For Africa (Sub-Sahara)

Richard Fowler

PMB, South Africa. Richard is a no-tillage expert. He also accepts to be a Senior Associate Editor of the WASWC Newsletter.  He is also a VP of WASWC for South Africa. rmfowler@iafrica.com

17.

For America (Latin)

Roberto Peiretti

He is former President of CAAPAS that covers all over America in Sustainable Agriculture. He is a councilor of AAPRESID, based in Rosario, Argentina. Our Org Mem sdrob@idi.com.ar

18.

For Australia

Kristie Watling

Former President of Australian Society of Soil Science, Queensland Branch, our Org Mem  kristie.watling@nrw.qld.gov.au

19.

For Europe

Mike Fullen

Of Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK, our Org Mem. Representative of Europe/ EU. He is also a VP of WASWC for UK. m.fullen@wlv.ac.uk

20.

For Europe

Eric Roose

A WASWC Honorary Member from France, Representative of ~20 French speaking countries, & Chair of AUF, our Org Mem He is also a VP of WASWC for France. roose@mpl.ird.fr, eric.roose@mpl.ird.fr

21.

For organizations

Doug Wimble

Former President of IECA, our Org Mem. He lives in Australia. dougwimble@spraygrass.com.au

22.

For organizations

José Rubio

President of ESSC (Spain) jose.l.rubio@uv.es and will change when his term ends or up to the decision of ESSC.

23.

For organizations

President of ISCO (Chile) and will change when his term ends or up to the decision of ISCO.

24.

For organizations

Winfried Blum

President of European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS), Vienna, Austria  herma.exner@boku.ac.at and will change when his term ends or up to the decision of ECSSS.

25.

Subject matter specialist

Ian Hannam

A Honorary Member of WASWC, from Australia – and a subject matter specialist in Law and Policy ian.hannam@ozemail.com.au 

26.

Subject matter specialist

Rolf Derpsch

No-Tillage specialist and Norman Hudson Memorial Award recipient for 2005. From Paraguay, South America. He is also a VP of WASWC for Paraguay. rderpsch@telesurf.com.py

To sum up: Africa: 2; America, Latin: 2; America, North: 2; Asia: 10; Australia: 3; Europe: 7