The Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) was Incorporated in the State of Western Australia on 22 June 2007 under the Western Australia Associations Incorporation Act 1987 (see attachment - IORG Charter - "Rules of Association"). IORG Inc is thus legally obliged to hold Annual General Meetings, the first of which was held in Hyderabad in November 2008.
Under the legally constituted "Rules of Association", IORG Inc has a Committee of Management (COM) of eight members who currently are:
| Chairperson |
Dennis Rumley, University of Western Australia email: rumley8@gmail.com |
| Vice-Chairperson |
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University, India email: csgiorg@gmail.com |
| Secretary |
Christian Bouchard, Laurentian University, Canada email: cbouchard@laurentian.ca |
| Treasurer |
Vivian Louis Forbes, Curtin University, Australia
email: vforbes@library.uwa.edu.au |
| Member |
Timothy Doyle, Keele University, UK and Adelaide University, Australia email: t.j.doyle@pol.keele.ac.uk |
| Member |
P V Rao, Osmania University, India email: pvraoj@yahoo.com |
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Vijay Sakhuja, Indian Council for World Affairs, New Delhi
email: sakhuja.v@gmail.com |
| Member |
Clive Schofield, ANCORS, University of Wollongong, Australia email: clives@uow.edu.au |
Membership of IORG Inc is open to all academics, policy-makers and others who have a research and policy interest in the aims and objectives of the Group.
The membership fee of US$50 includes a subscription to the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region
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At the 10th Council of Ministers (COM) Meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC), held on 5th August 2010 in Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) Inc was granted Observer Status to IOR-ARC more...
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