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IGS Council - 2026 Election

  • Writer: Eric
    Eric
  • Feb 8
  • 2 min read


Vote opened a week ago for IGS members to elect their next president.

While the choice for the best candidates is hard, the process is somehow even harder and must be explained! Here you go:


1-    You must be a member of the IGS, usually by being a member of the IGS Chapter for your country. This requires you to have paid your annual membership fee. If you have recently renewed your membership, please require your Chapter to inform the IGS Secretary, so you can receive a voting link.


2-   If you were confirmed as a member on January 29, you have received an email from “International Geosynthetics Society (no-reply(a)ukevote.uk)" at ~10;00 UK time in the morning of Monday, February 2. Check your spam folder!!!


3-   Click on the link provided in this email, you will enter the polling site to select, in this order:

  • the President;

  • the Vice-President;

  • 10 Council Members.

You can do this selection only ONCE, i.e., once you have selected the President and moved to the selection of the VP, you will not be able go back and change your selection for the president.


4-   It gets trickier when you reach the selection of Council Members, as you must RANK them by order of preference. The first selected gets 10 points; the second gets nine points; and so forth until the last selected who gets only one point. Hence, the first selected is worth 10x more than the last selected. This is a very, very hard choice, especially considering you do not see the 10 names on the same screen. It is therefore crucial to review the profile of the candidates here, and to rank your preferred candidates before entering the voting process: https://www.geosyntheticssociety.org/voting-now-open-for-igs-council-elections-2026/


5-   Once you have selected the council members, the provided link will no longer allow you to vote or even make a change.

 

This process has brought lots of frustration in the past elections. This, along with the by-laws, including, maybe, the name of the IGS, will go back to the worktable if I am elected. Those who did not receive the GNA from last week may review my intentions in the attached document, or in the GNA Archives here: https://www.geosyntheticnews.com.au/news/49-of-dutch-geosynthetics-co-acquired/


 

When voting, please keep in mind both geographical representation and professional activity. The IGS Council will be better served with a good balance between Industry / Academia, and a wide-spread geographical representation. Japan and Australia alone represent almost 10% of the GLOBAL membership, each!


  

 
 
 
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