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COUNCIL MEMBER ELECTION 2026

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Voting

OPEN

MEMBERSHIP VOTING OPEN - 3 Council positions, 5 candidates

Announcement:

UKISCRS (CIO, registered charity number: 1191256), announce that the Society received 5 applications for the 3 Council vacancies it seeks to fill in 2026. Therefore in accordance with the Society Byelaws, UKISCRS notifies Members that candidates will be elected following a ballot of the Members.

The successful candidates will officially take post on the 18th November 2026 (50th Annual Congress).

Membership voting will close Saturday 20/06/2025, 23:59.

Members will be notified of the results at the end of June.

View the Statements of the five candidates. In alphabetical order: 

KEY ELECTION DATES:

Application closes:
01/06/2026, 23:59

Member voting:
05/06/25 -
20/06/2025, 23:59


Results:
End of June 2026

Amar
Alwitry
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Brendan
Cummings
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Magdalena Edington
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Artemis
Matsou
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Ahmed
Shalaby Bardan

*You will need your unique member identifier sent by email to complete your voting form.

​Governing Election timings:

  • Application submission open until, 01/06/2026, 23:59.

  • UKISCRS Member voting for nominees: 05/06/2026 - 20/06/2025, 23:59.

  • Results announced end of June 2026.

  • The successful candidates to officially take post at the UKISCRS Council Meeting, Wednesday 18/11/2026.

 

See Section 11 of the UKISCRS Byelaws for full details of Council commitments, the election process. The full Constitution can be viewed here.

Current UKISCRS Council:
David Lockington: President
Paul Ursell: Past-President
Bita Manzouri: Secretary & President Elect

Laura Crawley: Treasurer

Nishani Amerasinghe
Seema Anand 
James Ball
Allon Barsam
Tom Flynn 
Sarah Maling
Mario Saldanha 


Philip Bloom: Trustee
Milind Pande: Trustee
Paul Rosen: Trustee

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