Candidates announced for OWSD Executive Board 2021-2025
June 04, 2021
The candidates for the 2021-2025 OWSD Executive Board were announced Monday, June 7. These candidates are those shortlisted by the OWSD Nominations Committee, who have demonstrated that they have the required experience to fulfill the described roles and duties of the positions for which they are running.
We received 20 eligible applications and, in accordance with the suggestions of the Nominations Committee, as well as with the "one country - one EB Member" rule, which excluded some candidates automatically, 13 members were shortlisted to run for the EB.
You will note that for some positions there is only one shortlisted candidate. In these instances, the profile is published for your information and consideration. If any voting members (aka full active OWSD members) have any objections to this appointment, please write to owsd@owsd.net by 13 June 2021, after which, in case of no objections, these candidates will be automatically appointed. We cannot accept objections to the procedures, which were published in advance on the OWSD website. Objections must be based solely on the candidate's ability to undertake the role of EB member for which she has been shortlisted (based on the published criteria). All such objections will be considered and treated in strict confidence.
According to our elections timeline, in case of roles that are not automatically appointed, members will be requested to vote for the preferred EB Member(s) of their Region as follows:
14 – 20 June Vice Presidential Election
28 June – 4 July Regional Members Election
Elections will take place through the OpaVote platform: on Monday, 14 and Monday, 28 June, full active OWSD members will receive a personal link that leads them to the voting question, where they will be requested to select the name of the candidate they would like to vote for, in your Region. Please note that only full members approved before June 11, 2021 will be eligible to vote. Approval time usually takes a few days, but can take up two weeks.
Below you can find the profiles and videos of the shortlisted candidates:
OWSD President
OWSD Vice Presidents
Africa region
Arab region
Asia Pacific region
Latin America and the Caribbean region
OWSD Regional Members
Africa region
Arab region
Asia Pacific region
Latin America and the Caribbean region
- Patricia Castillo-Briceno, Ecuador
- Sumbal Saba, Brazil (if not elected Vice President)
