What is board of directors
The Board of Directors, is the governing board of IEEE Canada, and is also known as the “IEEE Region 7 Committee». The Board is required to act in conformance with the IEEE Canada Bylaws and the constitution and bylaws of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
The Board normally meets twice each year face-to-face. One meeting is in the Spring; often immediately before the annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. The other is in the Fall at a central Canada location – every third year a board meeting may be at IEEE Sections Congress. The Board usually meets twice virtually, once at the beginning of the year to introduce new Board members to the Board meeting format and approve major IEEE Canada awards and once in the late spring to handle Chair appointments for the following year and interim business.
Officers
President | Tom Murad |
President-Elect | Wahab Almuhtadi |
Past-President | Robert Anderson |
Secretary | Raed Abdullah |
Treasurer | Murray MacDonald |
Parliamentarian | Jason Gu |
Director Emeriti | Ray Findlay |
Region Committees
Dan Coode (Audit Committee Chair)
Usman Munawar (Conference Advisory Committee Chair)
Branislav Djokic (Awards & Recognition Committee Chair)
Robert Anderson (Public Policy Committee Chair)
Robert Anderson (Nominations and Appointments Comittee Chair)
Amir Aghdam (Parliamentarian)
Ray Findlay (Director Emeriti)
Area Chairs
Central Area Chair | Area Chair (Central Area Chair) | Xianbin Wang |
East Area Chair | Area Chair (East Area Chair) | Anader Benyamin-Seeyar |
West Area Chair | Area Chair (Western Area Chair) | Matthew Wilder |
Administration
Executive Assistant (Staff) | Nada Al-Shakarchi |
Conferences Publications Assistant (Staff) | Tamara Abramchina |
Assistant Treasurer | Janet Bradley |
Section Chairs
Canadian Atlantic | Muhammad Usman Asad |
Hamilton | Patrick Nkwari |
Kingston | Sidney Givigi |
Kitchener-Waterloo | Medhat Moussa |
London | Dennis Michaelson |
Montreal | Gunes Karabulut Kurt |
New Brunswick | Chris Rouse |
Newfoundland & Labrador | Xianta Jiang |
North Saskatchewan | Cosme Loi |
Northern Canada | Stuart Barth |
Ottawa | Wendy Hopkins |
Peterborough | Preet Dsouza |
Quebec | Marc Perron |
Saint-Maurice | Alben Cardenas |
South Saskatchewan | Adam Tilson |
Southern Alberta | Anakarina Alvarez |
Thompson-Okanagan | Youry Khmelevsky |
Toronto | Dustin T. Dunwell |
Vancouver | Mandeep Pannu |
Victoria | Hong-Chuan Yang |
Windsor | Ahmed Hamdi Sakr |
Winnipeg | Peng Hu |
Operational Committee Leads
Educational Services
Educational Services Committee Chair | Azfar Adib |
Educational Services Vice Chair + | Esam Abdel-Raheem |
Volunteer Training Activities Coordinator | Esam Abdel-Raheem |
STEM Outreach Coordinator | Dennis Cecic |
Educational Services Committee Central Area Liason | Hina Tabassum |
Educational Services Committee East Area Liason | Muhammad Asad |
Educational Services Committee West Area Liason | Mandeep Pannu |
Professional Development Coordinator | Justin Jacob |
IEEE Canada Volunteer Tools Coordinator | Cosme Loi |
Historian | David Michelson |
Educational Activities Coordinator | Inderpreet Kaur |
Educational Services Committee Member at Large | Konrad Jasman |
Educational Services Committee Member at Large | Vahid Maleki Raee |
Membership Services
Membership Services Committee Chair | Marjan Alavi |
Membership Development (MGA) | Marjan Alavi |
Membership Services Committee Vice Chair | Abdallah Chehri |
Life Member Coordinator and R7 Representative | Wolfram Lunscher |
Regional Student Representative | Aljoharah Alabdullatif |
Vice-Regional Student Representative | Sadia Khaf |
Student Activities Lead | Usman Munawar |
Student Branch Chapter Coordinator | Usman Munawar |
Women in Engineering Coordinator | Maryam Davoudpour |
Young Professionals Coordinator | Raghav Thanigaivel |
Vitality Coordinator | Nitin Padmanabhan |
Membership Services Committee Central Area Liason | Ning Zhang |
Membership Services Committee East Area Liason | Hamadou Saliah-Hassane |
Membership Services Committee West Area Liaison | Amirmasoud Amirkabiri |
WIE Vice Chair | Saba Rafieian |
External Relations
External Relations Committee Chair | John Da Silva |
External Relations Vice Chair | Moha Abbaszadeh |
Humanitarian Initiatives Lead | Gerhard Dueck |
Industry Relations Lead | Hany Soloumah |
Outreach and Partnership Lead | Anand Shah |
External Relations Committee West Area Liason | Helen Percival |
External Relations Committee East Area Liason | HamidReza Sadreazami |
External Relations Central Area Liaison | Asadollah Norouzi |
Standards Liaison | Glenn Parsons |
Publications & Communications
Pubs & Comms Committee Chair | Abdallah Shami |
Past Chair | Branislav Djokic |
Pubs & Comms Vice Chair | Vijay Sood |
Advertising & Patronage Coordinator | Nima Javanbakht |
ICJECE co-Editor-in-Chief | TBD |
ICJECE co-Editor-in-Chief | Xiaodong Liang |
ICR Editor-in-Chief | Jahangir Khan |
IEEE Canada e-Newsletter Editor-in-Chief | Sulaiman Aburakhia |
Translation Coordinator | Tarek Djerafi |
Publicity & Social Media Coordinator | Sana Abou-Shaaban |
IEEE Canada Website Administrator | Nithin R.S. (Rajasekharan Syamala) |
IEEE Canada Press Editor-in-Chief | David Michelson |
Publications & Communications Committee Central Area Liason | Telex Magloire Ngatched Nkouatchah |
Publications & Communications Committee West Area Liason | Yasaman Amannejad |
Publications & Communications Committee East Area Liason | Tarek Djerafi |
ARC– Standing Committee
Awards & Recognition Committee Chair | Branislav Djokic |
Awards & Recognition Committee Vice-Chair | Om Malik |
Awards & Recognition Committee Secretary | Raouf Boutaba |
Awards & Recognition Committee East Area Representative | Scott Melvin |
Awards & Recognition Committee West Area Representative | Ljiljana Trajkovic |
Awards & Recognition Committee Central Area Representative | Xavier Fernando |
Awards & Recognition Committee Member-at-Large | Sreeraman Rajan |
Awards & Recognition Committee Member-at-Large | Anader Benyamin-Seeyar |
Awards & Recognition Committee Member-at-Large | Mahsa Pourazad |
Awards & Recognition Committee Life Members Representative | Wolfram Lunscher |
Awards & Recognition Committee Young Professionals Representative | Raghav Thanigaivel |
Awards & Recognition Committee Women in Engineering Representative | Maryam Davoudpour |
Awards & Recognition Committee Students – RSR | Aljoharah Alabdullatif |
AUDIT– Standing Committee
New_Position | Name |
Audit Committee Chair | Rabab Ward |
Audit Committee East Area Representative | Anader Benyamin-Seeyar |
Audit Committee West Area Representative | Ljiljana Trajkovic |
Audit Committee Central Area Representative | Thomas Lavrisa |
CONAC – Standing Committee
CONAC Chair | Ekram Hossain |
CONAC Vice-Chair | Nitin Padmanabhan |
CONAC Past-Chair | Usman Munawar |
Public Policy Committee
Public Policy Committee Chair | Glenn Parsons |
Public Policy Committee Vice Chair | Gaelle Martin-Cochon |
Public Policy Committee member at large (PAGSE Rep.) | Ray Barton |
Public Policy Committee East Area Liaison | Amir Andaliby |
Public Policy Committee Central Area Liaison | Md Mizanur Rahman |
Public Policy Committee West Area Liaison | Fares Alsaafani |
Public Policy Committee East Area Liaison | Hosein Badran |
Nomination Committee
Nomination Committee Chair | Rob Anderson |
Nomination Centreal Area Representative | Claudio Canizares |
Nomination Eastern Area Representative | Halim Yanikomeroglu |
Nomination Western Area Representative | Mazana Armstrong |
Operational Committee Leads
The Executive Committee is subject to the decisions of the Board of Directors and acts in between the meetings of the Board.
The Executive Committee is comprised of the following voting members:
- The officers – President, President-elect, Past-president, Secretary, and Treasurer;
- The Chair of each of the Canada West, Central, and East Areas or, with notice to the President, a designate for a particular meeting;
- The Chair of the External Relations Group;
- The Chair of the Member Services Group;
- The Chair of the Publications and Communications Group;
- The Directors Emeriti;
- The Chair of the Educational Services Group;
- The Chair of the Operational Support Group.
The Parliamentarian, CONAC Chair, and the IEEE Canada Administrator are non-voting members of the Executive Committee.
Please see this page for the names of the IEEE volunteers who serve on this committee and other IEEE Canada entities.
The Steering Committee shall set the annual goals and objectives for IEEE Canada, approve appointment of committee and area chairs, nominate candidates for President-Elect (Director-Elect), and approve the compensation for the IEEE Canada Administrator as recommended by the Past-President. All actions by the Steering Committee shall be reported by the President to the next Executive Committee and Board meetings.
The Steering Committee is comprised of the following voting members:
- The officers – President, President-elect, Past-president, Secretary, and Treasurer;
- The Directors Emeriti.
The Parliamentarian is a non-voting member of the Steering Committee.
Please see this page for the names of the IEEE volunteers who serve on this committee and other IEEE Canada entities.
The Nominations Committee shall propose to the Steering Committee an Audit Committee that shall, on an annual basis, review policies and procedures which substantially impact the finances and operations of the Region, monitor conformance thereto, and recommend such changes as it considers desirable, in addition to their review of the Treasurer’s financial records for the previous calendar year. The Audit Committee shall consist of one Treasurer or other qualified member from each of the three Areas and one Past President who shall chair the committee. The Audit Committee shall meet during the Spring Meeting and conduct an overview of the budget, income and expenditure together with such policies and procedures as it deems necessary. The Audit Committee shall make a report to the Board at its Spring Meeting and recommend any changes to the Region policies and Procedures, or any remedial actions arising from its review of the financial records. The Board shall approve any recommendations of the Audit Committee. The ExCom shall report on the implementation of all recommendations made by the Audit Committee and approved by the Board to the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee.
The Nominations and Appointments Committee (N&A) shall be responsible for recommending qualified candidates for the position of President-Elect; assisting the President in identifying qualified candidates for IEEE Canada appointed positions and committees; and assisting the President in identifying qualified candidates for MGA and other IEEE positions.
The Past President shall chair the N&A Committee. The Committee shall consist of a representative from each Area and the President (ex-officio). All Committee members must be of Senior Member or Fellow grade.
- Three Area Chairs: Canada East Area, Canada Central Area, Canada West Area
- Directors Emeriti
- Members of the IEEE Board of Directors residing within Canada
- IEEE Canada Administrator – providing administrative support to the Board
- CONAC Chair
- IEEE Canadian Foundation President
- Parliamentarian
- The officers – President, President-elect, Past-president, Secretary, and Treasurer;
- The Chair of each Section or, with notice to the President, a designate for a particular meeting;
- The Regional Student Representative;
- The Chairs of each of the five Standing Committee Groups
- Educational Services Group
- External Relations Group
- Member Services Group
- Operational Support Group
- Publications and Communications Group
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