20th GENERAL CONFERENCE

Executive Committee Elected

Executive Committee Elected at the IFWEA 19th General Conference

Albufeira, Portugal, 2-5 October 2003 

President Joao Proença, UGT, Portugal
General Secretary David Spooner, WEA-UK

Vice Presidents

TITULAR: ALTERNATE:
Sahra Ryklief LRS, South Africa Joaquim Fanheiro OTM, Mozambique
Namrata Bali IASEW, India Akhlaq Ahmed TWEI, Pakistan
Károly György MSZOSZ, Hungary Yuliya Simeonova KNSB, Bulgaria
José Pereira Dos Santos Força Sindical, Brazil Pablo Checa IESI, Peru
Susan Schurman George Meany Center, USA Kent Wong UALE, USA

Also Elected as Executive Committee Members were:

TITULAR ALTERNATE
Mike Chungu WEAZ, Zambia Radhakrisna Sadien State Employees’ Federation, Mauritius
José Marcos-Sanchez PLADES, Peru Norberto Ríos ENS, Colombia
Elizabeth Tang HKCTU, Hong Kong Rey Rasing LEARN, Philippines
Bente Gyp Wilhelmsen AOF-Norway Aslak Leesland AOF-Norway
Jorma Turunen TSL, Finland Kirill Buketov KAS-KOR, Russia
Michel Bradley GFTU, U.K Colin Barnes WEA E&S, U.K
Rudolf Helfrich DAA, Germany Oswald Bazant VWV, Austria
Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson ABF, Sweden Ulf Lundgren ABF, Sweden
David Joyce ICTU, Ireland Manuel Bonmati Portillo UGT-Spain
Giampiero Alhadeff SOLIDAR, Brussels Suzanne Sumner SOLIDAR, Brussels
Alana Dave Global Unions (ITF, U.K) Edam Raidon Lebanese Trade Union Training
Hasan Barghouthi DWRC, Palestine

Elected as Internal Auditors:

Björn Wall ABF, Sweden
Joe Holly WEA E&S, U.K.

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