New IDA board elected

The International Desalination Association (IDA) has elected its 2015-2017 board of directors.

The new board will will be installed on 3 September after the IDA World Congress event in San Diego. The number of ballots issued were 2,364 and 1,256 ballots were returned (53% of the membership).One representative member from each of the 16 IDA affiliates will be named at a later date.

The 2015-2017 board members with the regions they represent are named here.

Europe
Michel Canet, Gerard Canton, Carlos Cosin. Omar Abou Ibrahim, and Shannon McCarthy

Latin America-Caribbean
Emilio Gabbrielli

Middle East-Africa
Zamzam AlRakaf, Rachid Ghamraoui, Mounib Hatab. Mohamad Jaroudi, Fady Juez, Imad Makhzoumi, and Johnny Obeid

North America
Leon Awerbuch, Doug Eisberg, Rick Stover, and Nikolay Voutchkov

Pacific-Asia
Gary Crisp, Nobuya Fujiwara, Maurice Neo, and Li Youqing.