IRGO

During the IRGO Business Meetings, officers of the board are being elected for the coming term. Here, we present the curent IRGO officers and their predecessors.

2022-2026
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Lyon on July 22, 2022 the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Vincent Perrier (vincent.perrier[@]6univ-lyon1.fr)
Vice-Chair: Dangpeng Xi (2011010027[@]cugb.edu.cn)
Past Chair: Moriaki Yasuhara (moriakiyasuhara[@]gmail.com)
Secretary: Mark Warne (mark.warne[@]deakin.edu.au)
Communication Officer: Simone Nunes-Brandao (brandao.sn.100[@]gmail.com)
Treasurer: Renate Matzke-Karasz (r.matzke[@]lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Editor of CYPRIS: Elisabeth Brouwers (ellybrouwers[@]live.com)

2017-2021 (officers stayed in office until the subsequent ISO meeting in summer 2022 due to the pandemic)
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Santa Barbara on August 28, 2017 the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Moriaki Yasuhara
Vice-Chair: Vincent Perrier
Past Chair: Finn Viehberg
Secretary: Ilaria Mazzini
Communication Officer: Robin J. Smith
Treasurer: Renate Matzke-Karasz

2013-2017:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Rome on July 26, 2013 the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Finn Viehberg
Vice-Chair: Todd Oakley
Past Chair: Renate Matzke-Karasz
Secretary: Ricardo Lourenco Pinto
Communication Officer: Ilaria Mazzini
Treasurer: Akira Tsukagoshi

2009-2013:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Brasilia on July 28, 2009, and during an online-election later that year, the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Renate Matzke-Karasz
Vice-Chair: Elsa Gliozzi
Past Chair: Koen Martens
Secretary: Ricardo Lourenco Pinto
Communication Officer: Peter Frenzel
Treasurer: Akira Tsukagoshi

2005-2009:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Berlin on September 13, 2005, the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Koen Martens
Vice-Chair: Dermeval DoCarmo
Past Chair: Alan R. Lord
Secretary: Michael Schudack
Treasurer: Akira Tsukagoshi

2001-2005:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Shizuoka on August 4, 2001, the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Alan R. Lord
Vice-Chair: Thomas M. Cronin
Secretary: Koen Martens
Treasurer: Takahira Kamiya

1997-2001:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Chatham on July 31, 1997, the following officers were elected to serve a four-year term:

Chair: Noriyuki Ikeya
Vice-Chair: David Horne
Secretary: Dick Van Harten
Treasurer: Rosalie F. Maddocks
Counsellor: Roger Kaesler

1994-1997:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Prague on July 29, 1994, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:

Chair: Roger Kaesler
Vice-Chair: Dietmar Keyser
Secretary: Dick Van Harten
Treasurer: Rosalie F. Maddocks
Counsellor: Patrick De Deckker

1991-1994:
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Warnambool on July 29, 1991, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:

Chair: Patrick De Deckker
Vice-Chair and Treasurer: Rosalie F. Maddocks
Secretary: Karel Wouters
Editor of Cypris: Elisabeth Brouwers
Organizer, Twelfth International Symposium on Ostracoda: Jaroslav Riha

1988-1991
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Aberystwyth in 1988, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:

Chairman: Eugen K. Kempf
Vice-Chairman: Robert Lundin
Vice-Chairman: John Hazel (past chair)
Secretary: Karel Wouters

1985-1988
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Shizuoka in 1985, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:

Chairman: John Hazel
Vice-Chairman: Roger Kaesler
Vice-Chairman: Tetsuro Hanai
Counsellor: Robin C. Whatley

1982-1985
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Houston in 1982, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:

Chairman Robin C. Whatley
Secretary Patrick De Deckker

1979-1982
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Belgrade in 1979, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:
Before this meeting the name had been changed to International Research Group on Ostracoda.
President I. G. Sohn
Vice-President, Past-President and Counsellor Henri Oertli
Second Vice-President Elena N. Polenova
Secretary Michael Keen

1976-1979
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Saalfelden in 1976, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term
Chairman Henri Oertli
Secretary Michael Keen

1974-1976
At the IRGO Business Meeting in Hamburg in 1974, the following officers were elected to serve a three-year term:
Chairman John Neale
Secretary Kenneth G. McKenzie

At this meeting it was decided the term of officers to begin at the end of one meeting and continue to the end of the next meeting.

Meeting in Newark, Delaware, 1972
Chairman Harbans S. Puri
Secretary John Neale

Meeting in Pau, 1970
Chairman Harbans S. Puri
Secretary Kenneth G. McKenzie

Meeting in Hamburg, 1968
Chairman Harbans S. Puri
Secretary Kenneth G. McKenzie

Meeting at Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A., 1964
Chairman Fred Swain
Secretary John Neale

Meeting in Naples, 1963
Chairman Fred Swain