Board of Directors
The administration of the Association shall be exercised by a Board of Directors consisting of seven (7) members, namely: the President, the Vice-President, the General Secretary, the Treasurer, and three 3 member at-large. These members are elected by secret ballot of the General Assembly.
Xiao Yun. Zheng
Distinguished professor of Hubei University，China. President of China Institute for Yangtze River Culture Studies Former president of International Water History Association. Email: zhengxy68@163.com
Ioannis K. Kalavrouziotis
Professor in Wastewater Mangement, Former President of Hellenic Open University, Member of the University’s Board of Directors, Chairman IWA Specialist Group on Water in Ancient Civilizations, Greece. Greece. Email: ikalabro@eap.com
David A. Pietz
Professor of History. Director, School of Global Studies, University of Arizona, USA. UNESCO Chair in Environmental History. Email: dpietz@arizona.edu
Petri Juuti
Professor in Development of Water Services and Municipal Infrastructure and Environmental History (University of Tampere),History of Technology (Oulu) and Finnish History (Turku), Finland. UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Water Services. Email: petri.juuti@tuni.fi
Nguyen Thi Hien
Vietnam National University, Professor in School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts. Former vice president of Vietnamese National Institute for Arts and Culture, Vietnam. Email: hiennguyenb@gmail.com
Ahmed Rehema
Assistant to the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt. Egyptologist, and Underwater Archaeologist. Email: ahmed.rehema@gmail.com
Myrto Sophia Kolovou
She is a Computer Engineer and holds an MSc in Data Science & Machine Learning. The secretary of the association (IRCHA), an institutional seat by the statute. E-mail: mskolovou@eap.gr
Terms of the Board of Directors
The term of office of the members of the Board of Directors is three (3) years. Their services are offered voluntarily and without remuneration. Members of the Board have the right to resign from their position by submitting a written resignation to the Board.
Elections for the Board of Directors are held every three (3) years. For this purpose, the President of the outgoing Board convenes a General Assembly at which the candidacies are presented.
The first Board of Directors will be appointed by the General Assembly of the founding members and will serve for the first three-year term.
Any eligible member wishing to be elected must submit a written candidacy at least ten (10) days prior to the General Assembly.
The newly elected Board must convene and organize itself within ten (10) days of the election, upon invitation by the member who received the most votes.
Exceptionally, the term of the temporary administrative committee appointed by the founding members shall end upon the formation of the first Board of Directors following the approval of the present Statutes. The temporary committee shall be deemed automatically resigned and is obliged to convene the first regular General Assembly to elect the permanent Board of Directors within a reasonable time frame.
The Board of Directors may be dismissed by a decision of an extraordinary General Assembly at which two-thirds (2/3) of the voting members are present, and which makes its decision with a four-fifths (4/5) majority of those present.
The calling of such an extraordinary General Assembly may be requested in writing by at least one-fifth (1/5) of the Association’s members. The Board is then obliged to convene the Assembly within twenty (20) days of the request.
In case of negligence or refusal by the Board, the extraordinary Assembly may be convened by the one-fifth (1/5) of the members themselves, within ten (10) days following the expiration of the twenty-day period.
After the dismissal of the Board, a new extraordinary General Assembly shall be convened within fifteen (15) days to elect a new Board. Until the new Board is formed and assumes its duties, the outgoing Board shall remain responsible for managing the Association’s current affairs.
Elections
At the first regular G.A. held every three years, elections are conducted to elect the regular and alternate members of the BoD.
Specifically for the BoD elections, the G.A., following a proposal by its President, appoints a three-member electoral committee, which supervises and conducts the elections and drafts the vote-counting protocol.
The election of new regular and alternate BoD members is carried out by secret ballot.
The ballot lists the names of the candidates in alphabetical order and is considered valid when no more than two (2) preference crosses are marked and no distinctive mark is present. The two candidates with the next highest votes become the alternate members.
The ballot is placed in an envelope bearing the Association’s stamp and is submitted to the Electoral Committee.
After voting concludes and the vote-counting protocol is drawn up, the Electoral Committee announces the names of the successful candidates (separately for regular and alternate members), who are then considered elected BoD members.
Elections may also be conducted electronically by the Electoral Committee.
Amendment of the Statute – Dissolution of the Association
The statute may be amended by decision of the General Assembly, requiring a quorum of one-half (1/2) of members with voting rights, and the decision must be approved by a four-fifths (4/5) majority of those present.
The Association may be dissolved by decision of the General Assembly, requiring a quorum of three-fourths (3/4) of members with voting rights and a three-fourths (3/4) majority vote of those present, provided it is deemed that the Association can no longer fulfill its objectives.
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