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Advisory Board Purpose of the Advisory Board The Society shall solicit advice from a distinguished, international advisory board that includes three constituencies: 1) key regulatory agencies and other governmental offices, 2) respected scientists representing stakeholders involved in the development of products using the techniques of biotechnology, who come from the biotechnology industry or academia, and elsewhere and 3) respected scientists representing stakeholders involved in environmental biosafety assessments of GMOs, who could come from nongovernmental organizations or academia, and who consider environmental biosafety issues from a scientific perspective. These individuals will be invited to provide a formal advisory report to the Executive Committee describing the types of scientific research and scientific reviews that would be most useful to various stakeholders. Every two years, an Advisory Board report will be distributed to ISBR members and presented at the general meeting. As members of ISBR, the Advisory Board may also provide informal suggestions to the Executive Committee at any time. Membership Each organization that is a sustaining member of the ISBR shall be represented on the Advisory Board. Additional members of the Advisory Board shall be appointed by the President in consultation with the Executive Committee, pending a two-thirds vote of approval for each suggested member. This committee shall consist of no more than fifteen ISBR members (other than sustaining members) with approximately equal distribution among the three groups of members and broad geographic representation. Advisory Board members shall be chosen based on their demonstrated expertise and their ability to engage in reasoned, non-confrontational evaluations of the environmental safety of GMOs. Chair of the Advisory Board Terry Medley (USA) The Chair's primary responsibility shall be to coordinate biennial advisory reports and nominate members of the Long-Term Planning Committee and the Election Committee. Additional members of the Advisory Board David Andow Ariel Alvarez-Morales (Mexico) Franz Bigler Zangliang Chen (China) Anthony Conner (New Zealand) Phil Dale (UK) Ioannis Economidis (Belgium) Norman Ellstrand (USA) Ken-ichi Hayashi (Japan) Gil-Bok Lee Sue Meek Lisa Zannoni |