Current Council Members
Council Members
The Council of the IMA manages the operations of IMA, and is governed by the policies set by the Business Meeting. In this way, the national societies who are members of the IMA control the work of IMA through the national delegates that they send to the Business Meeting.
The Council consists of an Executive Committee, two additional officers and five ordinary Councilors. All members of Council are elected by the Business Meeting and serve the entire IMA; they are not delegates of national societies.
The Executive Committee executes the general business of the IMA between the times of the Business Meetings, with the guidance of the entire Council membership. Council usually meets formally once or twice a year to officially record and decide on policies, but remains in continuous contact and discussion on all matters concerning IMA. If you have questions about the operation of IMA, please contact the Secretary. If you have questions about IMA policies, please contact the President.
IMA Executive Committee
First-Vice President
Nancy Ross
Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA
Secretary
Hiroaki Ohfuji
Department of Earth Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University Sendai, Japan
Communication officer
Michele Zema
Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Treasurer
Travis Olds
Section of Minerals & Earth Sciences, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA
IMA Council Officers
Second-Vice President
Xiancai Lu
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Past-President
Hans-Peter Schertl
SchertlInstitute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
IMA Councilors
Ross J. Angel
Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR, Padova, Italy
Deshenthree Chetty
Mintek, 200 Malibongwe Drive, Randburg 2125, South Africa
Shaunna M. Morrison
Carnegie Institution, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, DC, USA
Vincent van Hinsberg
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Canada
Ecarnación Ruiz Agudo
Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Spain
Past IMA presidents are listed (IMA wikipedia page) here.