Presidium
The Presidium is charged with management of CIGR according to its Statutes and Internal Rules as approved by the General Assembly.
The Presidium takes care of the day to day management of the Association and is responsible for the activities carried out to reach CIGR's aims. It consists of the President, the Past President, the Incoming President and the Secretary General. After election by the General Assembly, the Incoming President serves in this function for a period of two years. These are followed by a term of two years as President and, finally, by another term of two years as Past President. The Secretary General is elected for a period of four years and can be re-elected.

2007 Presidium: From left to right, Prof. Luis Santos Pereira, Prof. Irenilza de Alencar Naas, Prof. Soren Pedersen, and Prof. Takaaki Maekawa.
2007 Presidium Members
- President: Prof. Irenilza
de Alencar Nääs
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, FEAGRI-UNICAMP, Dept. Agric. Constr., P. O. BOX 6011, cep 13081 Campinas SP, Brazil.
T.: +55 (0)192 39 7101
F.: +55 (0)192 39 4717
E-mail: irenilza@agr.unicamp.br
- Past President: Prof. Luis Santos Pereira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Dep. Engenharia Rural, Tapada da Ajuda, P-1349-017 Tapada da Ajuda, Portugal.
T.: +351 21 365 3400/ 21 365 3480
F.: +351 21 362 1575
E-mail: lspereira@isa.utl.pt
- Incoming President: Prof. Søren Pedersen
University of Aarhus, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Agricultural Engineering,
Schüttesvej 17, P.O.Box 536, DK-8700 Horsens, Denmark.
T.: +45 8999 1900, Dir. +45 8999 3034, Private: +45 7561 3047,
F.: +45 8999 3100,
E-mail : Soeren.Pedersen@agrsci.dk
- Secretary-General: Professor Emeritus Dr. Takaaki Maekawa
Graduate school of Life and Environmental Sciences
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan,
T.: +81 29 853 6989
F.: +81 29 853 7496
E-mail: biopro@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp

