Chairman of the Executive Committee:
Jacques BROTCHIUniversité Libre de Bruxelles
Hôpital Erasme
Department of Neurosurgery
808, Route de Lennik
B-1070, Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-5553763 Fax: +32-2-5553755
Email: jb.wfns@erasme.ulb.ac.be
WFNS Administrative Council: Jacques Brotchi (President), Peter M. Black (President-Elect), Khalaf Al Moutaery (First Vice-President), Richard G. Perrin (Secretary), Hildo Azevedo-Filho (Assistant Secretary), Nobuo Hashimoto (Treasurer),
Miguel A. Arraez (Assistant Treasurer), Roberto C. Heros (President of the XIV Congress)
WFNS Second Vice-Presidents: Alexander V. Ciurea (at large), Wai S. Poon (at large), Albino Bricolo (EANS),
Léo F.S. Ditzel (FLANC), Tetsuo Kanno (AASNS), Christopher M. Loftus (AANS), Jonathan C. Peter (PAANS)
Historian: Armando Basso
WFNS Honorary Presidents: Adelola Adeloye, Armando Basso, Maurice Choux, Noel G. Dan, Jacques C. de Villiers, Sayed El Gindi, John Gillingham, Alan Hudson, Shozo Ishii, Shigeaki Kobayashi, Edward R. Laws, Guy Lazorthes,
Friedrich Loew, Mauro Loyo-Varela, José-Gérardo Martin-Rodriguez, Jorge Mendez, Sean Mullan, Russel Patterson,
Fernando Rueda-Franco, Mahadeeva Sambivasan, Madjid Samii, Keiji Sano, Lindsay Symon, Kintomo Takakura,
H.A. van Alphen, H.A.D. Walder
Editor, Federation Web: Eduardo Karol
Editor of Federation and Congress Publications: Martin B. Camins
*Officers of the WFNS Congress: Roberto C. Heros, (President), Albert L. Rhoton (Honorary Vice-President),
Arthur L. Day (Vice-President), Peter M. Black (2nd Vice-President), Arthur J. Popp (Secretary), James T. Rutka (Assistant Secretary), Richard A. Ratcheson (Treasurer), Warren R. Selman (Asstistant Treasurer), Jacques J. Morcos (Scientific Programme Director, i.e. Chairman of the Programme Committee), and **Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Congress
Two delegates from each Constituent Society and each Continental Organization: (Paying Continental Organizations have the right to 4 delegates/4 votes)
Observers from each affiliate society: (no vote)
*N.B. they are ex-officio unless a nominated delegate. An amendment of the Bylaws passed in Marrakech states that only the President and Treasurer of the Congress can vote but not the Officers of the Congress.
** One from each member society of WFNS who is usually the delegate with the longest term of service on the Executive Committee, the name of whom should be declared in writing to the Secretary of the Federation by each Society. An Honorary Vice-President can only vote if he is also a Senior or Second Delegate of a member society.