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.

Presidium 2011 (from left to right) :
Prof. Fedro Zazueta (President),
Prof. Toshinori Kimura (Secretary General),
Prof. Søren Pedersen (Past President),
Prof. Da-Wen Sun (Incoming President)
2011 Presidium Members
- President: Prof. Fedro Zazueta
University of Florida, Director, Office of Academic Technology,
P.O. Box 117345, Gainesville, FL 32611-7345, USA.
TEL: +1 352 3920371
FAX: +1 352 3920765
E-mail: fsz@ufl.edu
- Past President: Prof. Søren Pedersen
Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Birketoften 1 DK-8700 Horsens, Denmark
TEL: +45 2548 7761
E-mail: Soeren.Pedersen@agrsci.dk
- Incoming President:
Prof. Da-Wen Sun
Food Refrigeration & Computerised Food Technology, National University of Ireland, Dublin (University College Dublin),
Agriculture & Food Science Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
TEL: +353 1 7167342
FAX: +353 1 7167493 / 7167415
E-mail: dawen.sun@ucd.ie
- Secretary-General: Prof. Toshinori Kimura
Research Group of Bioproduction Engineering,
Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,
N-9, W-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8589, Japan
TEL: +81-11-706-3885
FAX: +81-11-706-4147
E-mail: cigr_gs2010@bpe.agr.hokudai.ac.jp

