Board of Governors

Board Members

The Board of Governors consists of a representative of each Member State and constitutes the Governing body of the Centre. Its main functions include:

- determining the general policies and principles governing the activities of the Centre;
- admitting new Members to the Centre;
- approving the work programme and budget, taking into account the recommendations of the Council of Scientific Advisers, adopting the financial regulations of the Centre and deciding on any other financial matter;
- granting the status of Affiliated Centre to research centres of Member States that fulfil the requisite criteria, and of Affiliated Network to national, regional and international scientific networks;
- establishing rules which regulate patents, licensing, copyright and other rights to intellectual property, including the transfer of results emanating from the research work of the Centre.

Since 1999 all Member States participate in the financing of ICGEB through a scale of assessment adopted by the Board of Governors at its third session. The Financial Regulations (in PDF) of the Centre are available for consultation.

The Board holds a regular session once a year, generally alternating the meetings between Trieste, New Delhi and Cape Town. The seventeenth session of the Board will be held in Trieste, Italy from 11-12 November 2010.

Results from the sixteenth session of the Board held in New Delhi, India, are available.

The Director General of UNIDO is an ex-officio member of the Board, without voting rights.

Representatives of the United Nations, specialised agencies, the International Atomic Energy Agency and intergovernmental organisations and non-governmental organisations may, upon invitation of the Board, participate as observers in its deliberations. For this purpose, the Board has established a list of organisations that have a relationship with, and that have expressed interest in, the work of the Centre.



For further information please contact: Mr. Decio Ripandelli, Director, Administration and External Relations and Secretary of the Board of Governors, Tel: +39-040-3757345, Fax: +39-040-3757363, E-mail: decio@icgeb.org