Announcement:  Professor Gail Fondahl elected new IASSA president at ICASS VII in Akureyri, Iceland, June 22-26, 2011.

Professor Gail Fondahl, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, has been elected new IASSA president for the term 2011-2014.

ICASS VIII will be held in 2014 in Prince George, Canada. The IASSA secretariat will be located at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George.

Gail Fondahl will take over as IASSA president September 1, 2011.

Gail Fondahl submitted a bid for the IASSA secretariat - to be hosted by University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, Canada – and won the bid at the election for IASSA secretariat held at the IASSA General Assembly at ICASS VII in Akureyri. Three candidates were bidding for the IASSA secretariat; UNBC, Yukon College, and University of Nordland at Bodø.

After the announcement of the location of the new secretariat, an election for IASSA council was held.  Eight councilors were elected, and Gail Fondahl was announced new president by the newly elected IASSA council.

There are nine councilors on the newly elected IASSA council: eight councilors were elected by the General Assembly; and IASSA President Joan Nymand Larsen (2008-2011)  continues on the IASSA council as past president (ex-officio).

IASSA Council 2011-2014:

Gail Fondahl, president elect

University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Joan Nymand Larsen, outgoing president (ex-officio)

Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Iceland

Alona Yefimenko

Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, IPS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Andrey Petrov

University of Northern Iowa, USA

Birger Poppel (re-elected)

University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland

Chris Southcott

Lakehead University & Yukon College, Canada

Florian Stammler (re-elected)

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

Peter Schweitzer (re-elected)

University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Tatiana Vlasova

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation