NEALT executives for the years 2014 - 2015

The Business Meeting of the NEALT will be held in conjunction with the NODALIDA-2015 conference in Vilnius. According to the Constitution of the NEALT, The Business Meeting elects, among other things, the members of the Executive Committee (EC) for the next two-year term which in this case starts on January 1, 2016. The present composition of the EC and the expectations of normal recycling and continuations is as follows:

POSITION NAME TERM AND SUCCESSION COUNTRY
President Bolette Sandford Pedersen now serves the only term as President and is expected to retire and become a member of the Nominating Committee DK
Vice President Trond Trosterud now serves the only term as Vice President as is expected to succeed the President NO
Secretary Sigrún Helgadóttir now serves the first term and is expected to serve a second term IS
Treasurer Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis now serves the second term and is expected to retire SE
Editor in Chief Lars Ahrenberg now serves the second term and is expected to retire SE
Member Jolanta Zabarskaite now serves the only term and is expected to retire LT

NEALT nominations for the years 2016 - 2017

The NEALT principles for the nominations and the periods of service stated in the Constitution prevails. After considering possible candidates, a reasonable balance between countries and the genders, the Nominating Committee proposes the following nominations (which are still tentative and incomplete):

POSITION NAME/CANDIDATES COUNTRY
President Trond Trosterud (succeeds Bolette Pedersen) NO
Vice President Andrejs Vasiljevs, Kadri Vider LV, EE
Secretary Sigrún Helgadóttir (serves a second term) IS
Treasurer Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis (proposed for re-election) SE
Editor in Chief Marco Kuhlmann SE
Member Mikko Kurimo, Philip Ginter FI , FI

Note that it is convenient to have a Swedish Treasurer because the association is registered in Sweden and has a Swedish bank account.

Also note that it is convenient to have an Editor-in-Chief from LiU in Sweden because the NEJLT is published by Linköping University Press.

In addition, the following persons have been contacted for serving as the Auditor and Deputy Auditor:

POSITION NAME/CANDIDATES COUNTRY
Auditor Beata Megyesi SE
Deputy Auditor Robin Cooper SE

-- KristerLinden - 2014-05-31