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

President

Hans-Peter Schertl
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

First-Vice President

Eiji Ohtani
Department of Earth Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan

Secretary

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

Anhuai Lu
School of Earth and Space Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

IMA Councilors

Catherine McCammon
Bayerisches Geoinstitut Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Ross J. Angel
Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR, Padova, Italy

Hiroaki Ohfuji
Department of Earth Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University Sendai, Japan

Deshenthree Chetty
Mintek, 200 Malibongwe Drive, Randburg 2125, South Africa

Shaunna M. Morrison
Carnegie Institution, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, DC, USA

Past IMA presidents are listed (IMA wikipedia page) here.