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Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba elected as the IUCN Regional Councillor 14 October 2008 Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba has been elected as the Regional Councillor in the 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC) held from October 3—14, 2008, in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Deuba will hold office from the close of the World Conservation Congress (2008) until the close of the next ordinary session of the Congress (2012). Among the three members representing South and Southeast Asia, Dr. Deuba of Nepal was elected along with Hiroharau Koike of Japan and Mahfuz Ullah of Bangladesh. Dr. Deuba is the first candidate to ever put up candidacy from Nepal in the highest decision-making body in the sixty years of IUCN's history. The WCC was attended by over 8,000 participants representing governments and civil society of more than 177 countries of the world. The Congress also elected its new office bearers, including president, treasurer, 21 regional councillors representing all continents of the globe and specialist commission members. Ashok Khosla of India was elected president while Kurt Ramin of Germany has been elected treasurer. The Council is the principal governing body of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in between sessions of the World Conservation Congress - the general assembly of the Union's members. The Council is responsible for the oversight and general control of all the affairs of IUCN, subject to the authority of the World Conservation Congress. The Council is composed of the president, the treasurer and three regional councillors from each of IUCN's eight statutory regions, a representative of IUCN's host country Swiss confederation, the chairs of IUCN's six commissions and five additional councillors chosen by the council on the basis of diverse qualifications, interests and skills. For more information, please contact:
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