During 22-23 March 2009, the Board of the InterAcademy Council will hold its ninth annual meeting in Amsterdam at the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Participants will include the following:

Bruce Alberts, Co-Chair, Past President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

LU Yongxiang, Co-Chair, President, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Howard Alper, Ex Officio Member, Co-Chair, InterAcademy Panel on International Issues

Yucel Kanpolat, Member, President, Turkish Academy of Sciences          

Achiel van Cauwenberghe, Ex Officio Member, Former President, International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences

Jorge Crisci representing Eduardo Charreau, Member, President, National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina

Robin Crewe, Member, President, Academy of Science of South Africa

Ralph Cicerone, Member, President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Member, President, African Academy of Sciences

Nori Doi, representing Ichiro Kanazawa, Member, President, Science Council of Japan

Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, Member, Former President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Kurt Lambeck, Member, President, Australian Academy of Science

Volker ter Meulen, Member, President, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Martin Rees, Member, President, Royal Society of London

Guy Laval representing Jean Salençon, Member, President, Académie des Sciences, France

Guy de Thé,  Ex Officio Member, Co-Chair, InterAcademy Medical Panel

M. Vijayan, Member, President, Indian National Science Academy

Goverdhan Mehta, Observer, Former President, International Council for Science, (ICSU)

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Observer, President, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences