Bureau of the Conference of the Parties

In accordance with Rule 22 of the rules of procedure of the Stockholm Convention, as adopted in decision SC-1/1, and amended by decision SC-5/1, the Conference of the Parties shall elect at each ordinary meeting a President and nine Vice-Presidents, one of whom shall act as Rapporteur. These officers shall serve as the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties.

The members of the Bureau shall commence their terms of office at the closure of the meeting at which they are elected and remain in office until the closure of the following ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties, including for any intervening extraordinary meeting.

Each of the five United Nations regional groups shall be represented by two Bureau members. The offices of the President and Rapporteur shall normally be subject to rotation among the United Nations regional groups. No elected officer may serve on the Bureau for more than two consecutive terms.

Current members of the Bureau

The members of the Bureau, to serve until the closure of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, are as follows:

President:

• Ms. Maya Berci replacing Ms. Cécile Siewe (Canada - Western European and Others group)

Vice-Presidents:

• Mr. Youssef Zidi (Tunisia - African group)
• Mr. Christopher Kanema (Zambia - African group)
• Mr. Jihad Alsawair replacing Mr. Mohammed Oglah Khashashneh (Jordan - Asia and the Pacific group)
• Mr. Yaser Khalil Abu Shanab (State of Palestine - Asia and the Pacific group)
• Mr. Mario Vujić (Croatia - Eastern European group)
• Mr. Ivan Djurickovic (Serbia - Eastern European group)
• Mr. Miguel Eduardo Ruiz Botero (Colombia - Latin American and Caribbean group) (Rapporteur)
• Ms. Keima Gardiner (Trinidad and Tobago- Latin American and Caribbean group)
• Ms. Rikke Donchil Holmberg (Denmark - Western European and Others group)
  
  

Bureau Members, May 2023 - May 2025 (COP.12)

The Chair of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee is a member ex-officio of the Bureau.

Former members of the Bureau

Bureau Members, May 2022 - June 2023 (COP.11)
Bureau Members, May 2019 - June 2022 (COP.10)
Bureau Members, May 2017 - May 2019 (COP.9)
Bureau Members, May 2015 - May 2017 (COP.8)
Bureau Members, May 2013 - May 2015 (COP.7)

• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 5 and 6 November 2024
• COP.12 Bureau 2024 - Geneva, 16 May 2024
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 18-19 January 2023
• COP.11 Bureau 2022 - Geneva, 27 October 2022
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 1 and 2 February 2022
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva (online), 27-29 January and 26 February 2021
• COP.10 Bureau 2020 - Geneva, Switzerland, 10 June 2020
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 15-16 November 2018
• COP.9 Bureau 2018 - Geneva, Switzerland, 3 to 4 July 2018
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 3 to 4 November 2016
• COP.8 Bureau 2016 - Geneva, 28-29 June 2016
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 11 to 12 November 2014
• COP.7 Bureau 2014 – Geneva, Switzerland, 14-15 May 2014
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 13-14 December 2012
• COP.6 Bureau 2012 - Geneva, 10-11 May 2012
• Joint meeting of the bureaux of the COPs to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions - Geneva, Switzerland, 26 March 2011
• COP.5 Bureau 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland, 5 October 2010
• COP.4 Bureau 2008 - Geneva, Switzerland, 19-20 May 2008