Source: RISK newsletter,
Fourth Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
The Society for Risk Analysis' 1996 elections for president-elect, treasurer, and three councilors closed on November 1, the deadline for returning ballots. The new officers and councilors will be announced at the 1996 Annual Meeting and will participate in their first SRA Council meeting on December 10. The nominees were:
For president-elect (one-year term) -- George Apostolakis, professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is also affiliated with the institute's Operations Research Center and Program for Environmental Engineering Education and Research, vs. Yacov Y. Haimes, the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and director of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems at the University of Virginia.
For treasurer (two-year term) -- Robert G. Hetes, manager of the Health Risk Assessment Program in the Center for Environmental Analysis at the Research Triangle Institute, vs. incumbent Paul S. Price, a supervising scientist with ChemRisk, a Division of McLaren/Hart.
For councilor (three positions, each with a three-year
term) -- Scott R. Baker, director of risk sciences and
management at EA Engineering, Science, and Technology Inc., vs.
William F. Farland, director of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Assessment;
Robin Cantor, managing economist with Law and Economics
Consulting Group and former director of the National Science
Foundation's Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program, vs.
Ortwin Renn, member of the Center of Technology Assessment
in Baden-Württemberg's board of directors and chair of
environmental sociology at the University of Stuttgart; and H.
Christopher Frey, assistant professor in the North Carolina
State University's Department of Civil Engineering, vs. F.
Owen Hoffman, president and director of SENES Oak Ridge Inc.