Results of Council Elections 2019

We can confirm the following changes to Council membership effective from 1st January 2020, including the election of Bridget Dillon as our new Vice-President. We will be posting more information about our new Council members soon.

Congratulations to all of the successful applicants and a warm welcome to all new members of Council. We are extremely grateful to outgoing members of the Society for their contributions to the Society during their terms.

Re-elected members of Council (2020-21 term)

• Rebecca Adler
• Bev Bishop
• George Bramley
• Colin Jacobs
• Pete Welsh

Incoming members of Council (2020-21 term)

• Matthew Baumann
• Meera Craston
• Bridget Dillon – Vice President
• Matthew Hill
• Sergio Salis

Outgoing members of Council

• Usha Boolaky
• Kari Hadjivassiliou
• Laura Hayward
• Derek Poate
• Elizabeth Robin – President (2015-17) and Past President (2018-19)

Full list of Council members from 1st January 2020

Officers

• President – Tim Chadborn
• Vice-President – Bridget Dilllon
• Past President – Julian Barr
• Treasurer – Tracey Wond
• Secretary – Andrew Berry

Elected Council Members

• Rebecca Adler
• Matthew Baumann
• Bev Bishop
• George Bramley
• Meera Craston
• David Drabble
• Emma Gibbard
• Matthew Hill
• Colin Jacobs
• Tarran Macmillan
• Jessica Ozan
• Steve Powell
• Sergio Salis
• Matthew Terry
• Pete Welsh

Co-opted Council Members

• Natalia Chivite-Matthews
• Murray Saunders
• Helen Simons

Notes on the 2019 Council elections

There were seven positions on Council up for election this year, plus the position of Vice-President of the Society. During the election period, one existing member of Council (2019-20 term) announced their intention to resign at the end of 2019. One of our co-opted members also announced their intention to stand down from Council at the end of 2019.

We received nine applications to become Council members and one application to become Vice-President. All of the applications were reviewed on 11th November 2019 by a nominations group made up of Council officers and all applications were deemed to meet the requirements of the roles.

By the end of 2019, ten members of Council will be concluding their existing terms which is equivalent to the ten applications received for the new 2020-21 term. The nominations group therefore decided to accept all ten applications to join Council from 1st January 2020 with no net change in the overall number of Council members.