News in 2022
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FIG General Assembly 2022
4 September online - 11 and 15 September in Warsaw, Poland and
online
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The General Assembly was held differently than normally with
one session online one week before the FIG Congress and two
sessions onsite during the Congress. All elections were held
electronically.
Before the General Assembly all member associations had been
requested to submit information about their official delegate
who would be voting on behalf of the association. In total 78
members registered which amounted to a total of 94 votes.
Roll call
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Session 1: General Agenda items
At this online meeting all general agenda items were presented in a
two-hour online session. FIG President Rudolf Staiger presented his
report of the past year; again a different year that was overshadowed by
the pandemic and no possibility to travel and meet. The pandemic also
had an impact on the finances as FIG had given all members a 20%
reduction of membership fee. All commission and network chairs presented
their work during the past year, also looking back on the past four
years as this was the last year of their term.
FIG was founded in 1878 which means that 2028 will mark the 150th
anniversay of FIG. The inaiguration of FIG took place in Paris, France,
and the two French associations had expressed their interest in hosting
the FIG Working Week 2028 so that the celebration of the 150th
anniversary could take place in Paris. FIG Council asked the members to
give Council authority to select the venue for 2028. Normally the
General Assembly will select
Furthermore, two new Honorary members were suggested, Volker
Schwieger, Germany, and Stephen Djaba, Ghana.
Plese find here all reports:
The minutes will be uploaded and sent out to all members when ready.
Session 2: Get to know your candidates
This session took place in Warsaw, Poland on 11 September 2022. It
was a different session, aiming to present the President and Vice
President candidates. They had all submitted a video and other material
before the General Assembly, and the session was therefore built up to
show a different side of the candidates.
The four Vice President candidates Brian Davies, Canada, Daniel
Steudler, Switzerland, Qin Yan, China and Winnie Shiu, USA, were all
asked to give a maximum 10 minute presentation based of the following
questions:
- Why are you a good candidate?
- Why do you want to be FIG Vice President?
- What will your contributions be/what are your targets for the
coming 4 years?
- One fun fact about you…
The President candidates, Abbas Rajabifard, Australia, Diane
Dumashie, UK, and Orhan Ercan, Turkey, were given a list of potential
questions in advance for preparation, and FIG President Rudolf Staiger
asked a number of these questions to the three candidates.
Read more about the
candidates and see the voting results
President candidate Q&A session
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The three candidates for President, Abbas Rajabifard, Orhan
Ercan and Diane Dumashie were interviewed by FIG President
Rudolf Staiger
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Brian Davies, Canada |
Daniel Steudler, Switzerland |
Qin Yan, China |
Winnie Shiu, USA |
Session 3: results
Session 3 was held on 15 September and included first and foremost
the results of the elections.
Elected were:
President for the term 2023-2026:
Vice Presidents for the term 2023-2026:
- Daniel Steudler
- Winnie Shiu
Election results
Presentations:
CLOSING
Further reading:
On-site council at the third General Assembly session |
Honorary members Volker Schwieger and Stephen Djaba |
Elected: Diane Dumashie, President; Vice Presidents Daniel
Steudler and Winnie Shiu |
Roll call |
The General Assembly voted in favour of letting FIG Council
select the destination for the specail year 2028 that marks the
150th anniversary of FIG. The two French associations thanked
for the opportunity to host this event |
Grant recipients of the FIG Foundation Young Surveyors travel
grant |
A very big thanks to the local organising committee - here co-congress
director Krzysztof Bakuła |
Responsible for sponsors and exhibitors Tomasz Malinovski
receives a big thanks from the president |
Handing over the flag from the local organisers 2022 til the
organising committee 2023 |
Co-conference director Krzysztof Bakuła hands over the FIG Flag
to John Hohol, co-conference director FIG Congress 2023 |
Looking forward to meeting all and many more again in 2023 in Orlando,
Florida, USA - save the dates: 28 May - 1 June 2023
Louise Friis-Hansen
13 October 2022
