I F I A

IFIA General Assembly 2014

Brief Report

Date: 20 November,
Time: 13:30 to 20:00
Location: Kunshan, China
Venue: V204 Expo Center

General Assembly Agenda:

1. Calling Members
2. Amendment of the Statutes
3. Report of Mr. Andras Vedres (2006-2014)
4. Election of President
5. Plans of the new President
6. Election of new leaders
7. Next GA

 1- Calling of the delegates by the President:

The following delegations of IFIA full members (with voting right) were present from:

1	Australia
2	Bosnia
3	Brazil
4	China
5	Croatia
6	Czech Republic
7	Denmark
8	Egypt
9	Germany
10	Hungary
11	Iceland
12	India
13	Indonesia
14	Iran
15	Iraq
16	Kuwait
17	Lebanon
18	Niger
19	Nigeria
20	Philippine
21	Poland
22	Portugal
23	Republic of Korea
24	Romania
25	Saudi Arabia
26	Serbia
27	Slovenia
28	Sweden
29	Syria
30	Yemen

The IFIA President stated that this meeting is standard IFIA General Assembly and it is opened.

2- IFIA president presented the amendment of status and 9 members voted YES and 20 members NO for this amendment. So the amendment of IFIA status has not been accepted by General Assembly.

3- Mr. Vedres reported about all the activities of IFIA in time of his presidency from 2006 to 2014 and all the General Assembly’s members accepted it and congratulated him for his work.

Mr. Vedres asked the members of General Assembly to decide whether to vote on one proposed president candidate from ExCo or more than one. 17 members voted YES and 13 members NO, so the General Assembly should decide between three proposed candidates.

4- Mr. Adam Rylski resigned from the president candidacy and General Assembly also decided that voting should be secret. The candidates for the president were Mr. Zhang Qin from China and Mr. Alireza Rastegar from Iran.

Criteria for the new president’s personality:

1. who can well represent an international NGO as like the IFIA

2. International prestige

3. International acceptance

4. IFIA work background

5. Inventor activity (it is indicated by espacenet database)

6. Innovation activity (valuable results on world market)

7. Good English writing and speaking

8. NGO leadership practice

9. Support of the IFIA organization in own country

10.Guarantee for financial support for IFIA office by Governmental site

12 members of General Assembly voted for Mr. Zhang Qin and 16 members voted for Mr. Alireza Rastegar and two votes were invalid. So the next president of IFIA from 2014 to 2018 is Mr. Alireza Rastegar.

Because the time was limited the General Assembly will continue next day.