Dear ICOM ASPAC National Committees,

It is a pleasure to inform you of the procedure for the nominations and election procedure for the new Executive Board of ASPAC.

ASPAC Executive Board Elections (2025-2028) for the positions of:

Chair (1)

Vice Chair (1)

Secretary (1)

Treasurer (1)

Ordinary members (At least 1)

In accordance with Article 8.4 of the ICOM Internal Rules, “There shall be a Board of the Regional Alliance consisting of a Chair and at least four (4) other persons, nominated and elected by the National Committee Boards of the regional participants”.

Eligibility of Candidates:

Any ICOM member in the ASPAC region in good standing can be a candidate for the election to the ASPAC board.

If elected, they shall be permitted to serve a second term in the same position.

Board members may not be nominated for the same position after 2 terms.

The Chair of ASPAC may not at the same time serves as a member of the Executive Board of ICOM or a Chair of a National Committee or an International Committee, or Affiliated Organization.

No person shall be permitted to serve more than 4 consecutive terms as a Board member (12 years)

Forms:

The candidacy forms submitted to ASPAC must use the official forms provided by ASPAC.

1. A Candidate Statement Form.
2. A Nomination Form from a National Committee: The Form must be signed by the NC Chair and a Board member. If the Chair is a nominee, two Board members of the NC must sign the letter of support.

Send all the documents to the current ICOM ASPAC account Email: icomaspac@oa.shu.edu.cn

Forms are here: (1) ASPAC_Elections 2025-2028_Candidate Statement

(2) ASPAC_Elections2025-2028_Nomination-Form

(3) Invitation-of-ICOM-ASPAC-Board-Election-2025-2028

Closing date for candidacies:  8^th September 2025 24:00 PM China Standard Time.

 Voting

Online Electronic Voting will open from (November 6-13) up to one week, and closing during ASPAC meeting in Dubai. Results will be announced during ASPAC GA meeting.

The ASPAC Ad Hoc Election Committee  

Chair: Kidong BAE

Members: Kerya Sun, Hanze Song

I hope we have many passionate and respectable members joining ASPAC Board for the next three years.

Here is the List of current ASPAC Board (2022-2025)

Position	Name	National Committee	Eligibility for reelection
Chair	Laishun AN	China	Y
Secretary	Ana Maria Theresa LABRADOR	Philippine	Y
Ordinary members	Rukhsana DAVID	Pakistan	Y
	Serajul ISLAM	Bangladesh	Y
	Sunjung KIM	Korea, Republic of	Y
	Bijaya Kumar SHAHI	Nepal	Y
	Ambika PATEL	India	N
	Kerya SUN	Cambodia	N

List of previous ASPAC Board (2019~2022)

Position	Name	National Committee
Chair	Kidong BAE	Korea
Secretary	Wei JUN	China
Ordinary members	Jahangir Hussain	Bangladesh
	Mir Seyed Ahmad Mohit Tabatabaei	Iran
	Kamarul Baharin bin A Kasim	Malaysia
	Hayasi Yoshihiro	Japan
	Jarunee Incherdchai	Thailand
	Ambika Patel	India
	Kerya SUN	Cambodia
	Muhammad Akhter	Pakistan

Timetable

The Timeline for the ASPAC election 2025 process as followed.

Dates	Process
August 7	Call for nominations opens
September 8	Call for nominations closes
	(Further call if no candidate for specific roles on the Board)
September 12	Nominations given to Secretariat
October 10	Validation of the nominees
October 20	Announcement of candidates and voting procedure along with the ASPAC GA agenda
November 6-13	Voting electronic – open for up to one week, and closing during meeting According to the current rules, if we do not have enough candidates, we need to call from the floor. In which case, we need to use paper ballots.
November 13	Results announced during ASPAC meeting

All the signatory persons’ information must correspond with the ICOM IRIS data.

Thank you for your support and we welcome more dedicated members joining ASPAC Board for the next three years.  If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us at: icomaspac@oa.shu.edu.cn

The ASPAC Ad Hoc Election Committee