WAB Officers and Members of the Board of Regents

The Officers

Chair:J. P. Diaz-Jimenez (Barcelona, Spain)
Vice-Chair:Hiroaki Osada (Kawasaki, Japan)
WCB President: Zsolt Papai-Szekely (Budapest, Hungary)
WCB President-Elect (2012):Atul C. Mehta (Cleveland, OH, USA)
WCB President-Elect (2014):Teruomi Miyazawa (Kawasaki, Japan)
Immediate Past Chair:Udaya B. S. Prakash (Rochester, MN, USA)
Past Chair:Hirokuni Yoshimura (Sagamihara, Japan)
Treasurer: Noriaki Kurimoto (Kawasaki, Japan)
Secretary-General:J. Patrick Barron (Tokyo, Japan)
Editor-in-Chief of the JOB:Atul C. Mehta (Cleveland, OH, USA )

The Regents who will have completed for one term at the 16th Budapest WCB, June 2010

Denis Cortese (Rochester, MN, USA)
Lutz Freitag (Hemer, Germany)
Stefano Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
Norihiko Ikeda (Tokyo, Japan)
Masahiro Kaneko (Tokyo, Japan)
Noriaki Kurimoto (Kawasaki, Japan)
Yoko Kusunoki (Osaka, Japan)
Kazumitsu Ohmori (Tokyo, Japan)
Taeko Shirakawa (Kawasaki, Japan)

The Regents who will have completed for two terms at the 16th Budapest WCB, June 2010

Ryuta Amemiya (Tokyo, Japan)
Luis Callol Sanchez (Madrid, Spain)
Carlos Disdier Vicente (Caceres, Spain)
Jean-Francois Dumon (Marseille, France)
Eric S. Edell (Rochester, MN, USA)
Felix Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Teruomi Miyazawa (Kawasaki, Japan)
Kiyoshi Shibuya (Chiba, Japan)
Masahiro Tsuboi (Tokyo, Japan)
Yoichi Watanabe (Okayama, Japan)

The Members who have been newly elected as the members of the board, effective on March 30, 2008

Henri Colt (Irvine, CA, USA)
Fumihiro Asano (Gifu, Japan)
Herve Dutau (Marseille, France)
Koichi Kobayashi (Tokyo, Japan)
Akitoshi Ishizaka (Tokyo, Japan)
Hideo Saka (Nagoya, Japan)
Kazuhiro Yasufuku (Chiba, Japan)
Hermann Tonn (Hannover, Germany)
Ryosuke Tsuchiya (Tokyo, Japan)
Rex Yung (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Harubumi Kato* (Tokyo, Japan)


(*marked: Past WCB president, to remain in the Board for three terms after WCB)