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WESTPAC Officers
May 2021 – Current
WESTPAC Officers (Chairperson and Vice-chairpersons) are elected by delegates at each intergovernmental Session.
They shall be from Member States in the region and serve for one Session and one intersessional period. They may be re-elected for one additional term of office.
At the 13th Intergovernmental Session of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC-XIII, 27-29 April 2021, Online Session), the Sub-Commission elected, by acclamation, Fangli Qiao from China and Kentaro Ando from Japan as Co-Chairpersons; and Aileen Tan Shau Hwai from Malaysia as Vice Chairperson of the Sub-Commission for the next intersessional period.
Fangli Qiao
Co-Chairperson
Kentaro Ando
Co-Chairperson
Aileen Tan Shau Hwai
Vice Chairperson
May 2017 – April 2021
Vo Si Tuan
Chairperson
Fangli Qiao
Vice Chairperson
Zainal Arifin
Vice Chairperson
Kentaro Ando
Vice Chairperson
May 2012 – April 2017
Somkiat Khokiattiwong
Chairperson
Youn-Ho Lee
First Vice Chairperson
Vo Si Tuan
Second Vice Chairperson
May 2008 – April 2012
Zhang Zhanhai
Chairperson
Yasuwo Fukuyo
First Vice Chairperson
Nor Aieni Binti Hj Mokhtar
Second Vice Chairperson
September 2002 – April 2008
March 1996 – August 2002
Hyung Tack Huh
Keisuke Taira
Dang Ngoc Thanh
First Vice Chairperson
Manuwadi Hungspreugs
Haiqing Li
Hyung Tack Huh
February 1993 – February 1996
February 1990 – January 1993
Su Jilan
Takahisa Nemoto
Tomio Asai
Su Jilan
Manuwadi Hungspreugs
Charoen Vashrangsi
IOC Regional Committee for the Western Pacific (1977-1990)
July 1987 – January 1990
October 1983 – June 1987
Takahisa Nemoto
John Stuart Bunt
Choompol Swasdiyakorn
Piamsak Menasveta
February 1979 – September 1983
Aprilani Soegiarto
Toshiyuki Hirano
9th Floor, Government Complex Building B
c/o Department of Marine and Coastal Resources
120 Chaengwattana Road, Thung
Songhong, Lak Si, Bangkok 10210, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2 141 1287-88;
Fax: (66) 2 143 9245;
Email: iocwestpac@unesco.org
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