The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is governed by its General Assembly. The General Assembly is the highest governing body of the Union, appoints the members of the Executive Council and various International Commissions, and nominates representatives to serve on various inter-union bodies.
The 29th IUPAP General Assembly will be held in São Paulo, Brazil from 11 to 13 October 2017. The highlight to this important meeting is the approval of the changes to the International Unit System: the mass unit will be defined from fundamental constants. Also it is the first time in the 90 year history of IUPAP that the General Assembly is being held in South America.
| EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF IUPAP | |
| President | Bruce McKELLAR (University of Melbourne, Australia) |
| Past President | Cecilia JARLSKOG (Lund University, Sweden) |
| President-Designate | Kennedy REED (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) |
| Secretary-General | Kok Khoo PHUA (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
| Associate Secretary-General | Rudzani NEMUTUDI (iThemba Labs, South Africa) |
| Vice Presidents at large | Monica PEPE-ALTARELLI (CERN, Switzerland) |
| Alex HANSEN (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology) | |
| Vitaly KVEDER (Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) | |
| Wenlong ZHAN (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | |
| Francis ALLOTEY (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ghana) | |
| Vice-Presidents Elected from the Commission Chairs | ToshiyukI AZUMA (C15, RIKEN, Japan) |
| J Raynien KWO (C10, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan) | |
| John SAUNDERS (C5, Royal Holloway University of London, UK) | |
| Alinka LÉPINE-SZILY (C12, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) | |
| Grazina TAUTVAISIENE (C19, Observatory at Vilnius University, Lithuania) | |
| IUPAP SECRETARIAT | Maitri BOBBA / SUN Han, (Institute of Advanced Studies Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
