Appointments & Elections Committee (A&E)

Contact: appoint@lisamission.org

Governance:

• chair: Alexey Bobrick
• co-chair: Alessia Gualandris
• Jonathan Thompson
• Quynh Lan Nguyen
• Sean McWilliams

One role of the Appointments and Elections Committee is to recommend appointments of members to permanent committees, ensuring that committees end up with a diverse representation of the Consortium. They also advise in the nominations of the MT. Diversity in this context can refer to scientific diversity, geographic diversity, career-stage diversity, as well as any other considerations.

The Appointments and Elections Committee runs all elections and also ensures that elections are carried out on time.

The Appointments and Elections Committee is formed of 5 members. Following an open call to all core members, two are elected by the Council and three are elected by all core members.

The members of the Appointment and Elections Committee will choose one member of the committee to be the chair.

The Council may remove the members it elected to the Appointments and Elections Committee with a simple majority of Council votes. The Council may remove the members elected to the Appointments and Elections Committee by all core members with a two-thirds majority vote of Council votes.

The Council may add and remove additional roles to the Appointments and Elections Committee. These additional roles will be specified in the Consortium Policies and Procedure document.