Nominations for officers of the society

Dear Members of the International Society on MCDM,

We will have elections for several officers of our society:  The President Elect (who will become the next president in approximately four years), the vice president of finance (who handles the finances of the society), and four members of the EC.  The Executive Committee (EC) of the Society is the body that makes the major decisions of the society.  The members of the EC are elected for four years and four members are up for election every two years.

The nominations for all positions are made by a nomination committee as well as by members.  Our nomination committee nominated (listed in alphabetical order of their last names for each position):

For president elect: 

Jose Rui Figueira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Kathrin Klamroth, University of Wuppertal, Germany

For vice president of finance: 

Birsen Karpak, Youngstown State University, USA

For EC: 

Carlos Coello Coello, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, USA

Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, 

Michalis Doumpos, Technical University of Crete, Greece 

Alessio Ishizaka, University of Portsmouth, UK

Milosz Kadzinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Hatem Masri, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain

There are no self nominations.  However, four or more members of the Society may jointly make a new nomination.  The nominated person must be a member of the Society and should approve of the nomination.  Nominations can be made electronically before the conference (please send an E-mail to secretary@mcdmsociety.org mentioning the member who you wish to nominate by June 16, 2019) or in writing endorsed by four members during the conference to the Secretary Banu Lokman before June 19, 2019. The acceptance of the nominated person for running for the position should be mentioned with the nomination.

The following members have already been nominated to the executive committee by other members:

Salvatore Corrente, University of Catania, Italy

Caroline Mota Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brasil

Francisco Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain

The nominee list will be finalized at the Business Meeting and the elections will be conducted electronically after the conference (the calendar will be decided later).

Murat Koksalan

President, International Society on MCDM

Visiting Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

URL:  http://www.metu.edu.tr/~koksalan/