The 39th Council was elected in March 2021 until February 2022. Its membership is as follows:
Presidency:
Council meetings are be presided over by the President or, in his/her absence, by the Vice-President. Both officeholders are entitled to attend the meetings of the Executive Bureau and support the latter in its mandate to represent the Council.
CHAOUI Prisca (President)
PECK ARIF Catherine (Vice-President)
Executive Bureau:
The Executive Bureau acts as the Council’s executive. It implements the decisions of the Council and represents it before management and other bodies. It meets on a weekly basis. It is headed by the Executive Secretary, assisted by the Deputy Executive Secretary. The President and Vice-President are non-voting members. It is constituted as follows:
SMITH Brad (Executive Secretary)
BALI Mohamed (Deputy Executive Secretary)
DUPARC Philippe
JOHNSON Laura
KALOTAY Kalman
MEYER Olivier
RICHARDS Ian
Other members of the 39th Council:
ABDELLAOUI Naima
ALEKSANDROVA Anna
ALLEK Meriem
ALMARIO Francis
APOSTOLOV Mario
BATAC Cecilia
CHANTREL Dominique
COLANGELO Roberto
DAN Lin
GAZIYEV Jamshid
HERMELINK Ursula
JACQUIOT Cédric
KHAN Anjum
LEWIS-LETTINGTON Nicole
OUAFFO WAFANG Caroline
POPA Gabriela
Release for staff representation functions
Staff representation is considered as official business. To this end, members of the Council are entitled to the following release for staff representational functions (as per General Assembly resolution A/C.5/50/64):
- Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary: up to 100 percent.
- President, Vice-President, Executive Bureau members: up to 32 hours a month.
- Other members of the Council: 10 hours a month.