TRANSITIONS

New Chairman of the Board

Former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg was elected as the new Chairman of the Board of International IDEA. He succeeds Sir Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and Co-Chairman of the Commission on Global Governance in the position.

New Board members

In June 2001, four new Board members joined International IDEA:
Mr Thomas Carothers, (USA) Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ambassador Legwaila Joseph Manson John Legwaila, (Botswana) Special Representative for the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), Dr Henning Scherf, President of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, and Mr Jos van Gennip, Member of the Upper House of the Netherlands' Parliament.

The following members of the Board completed their terms of office in June 2001:

Sir Shridath Ramphal (Chairman), former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and Co-Chairman of the Commission on Global Governance, Dr Adama Dieng, Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; former Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, Sir David Steel, Presiding Officer, Scottish Parliament and former President of Liberal International, UK, and Dr Erling Olsen, former speaker of Parliament, Denmark. Dr Olsen has left the Board in order to assume duties as Deputy Secretary-General of International IDEA

Paul Risley (USA), joined the Institute in September 2001 as Senior Information Officer (Information Division)