Resulting from the elections held in Buenos Aires on September 21 during the General Assembly, the composition of the new Executive Committee of the WPA is the following:
President: Pedro Ruiz (USA)
President-Elect: Dinesh Bhugra (UK)
Secretary General: Levent Kuey (Turkey)
Secretary for Finances: Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan)
Secretary for Meetings: Tarek Okasha (Egypt)
Secretary for Education: Edgard E. Belfort (Venezuela)
Secretary for Publications: Michelle B. Riba (USA)
Secretary for Sections: Afzal Javed (UK)
The composition of the new Board of the Association is the following:
Zone 1 (Canada): Donna E. Stewart (Canada)
Zone 2 (United States of America): John S. McIntyre (USA)
Zone 3 (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean): Mauricio A. Sanchez (Nicaragua)
Zone 4 (Northern South America): Fabrizio Delgado Campodonico (Ecuador)
Zone 5 (Southern South America): José Geraldo Vernet Taborda (Brazil)
Zone 6 (Western Europe): Linda Gask (UK)
Zone 7 (Northern Europe): Henrik Wahlberg (Sweden)
Zone 8 (Southern Europe): Miquel Roca Bennasar (Spain)
Zone 9 (Central Europe): Jiri Raboch (Czech Republic)
Zone 10 (Eastern Europe): Petr Morozov (Russia)
Zone 11 (Northern Africa): Driss Mous- saoui (Morocco)
Zone 12 (Middle East): Walid Sarhan (Jordan)
Zone 13 (Western and Central Africa): Joseph Adeyemi (Nigeria)
Zone 14 (Southern and Eastern Africa): Solomon Rataemane (South Africa)
Zone 15 (Western and Central Asia): S. Ahmad Jalili (Iran)
Zone 16 (Southern Asia): Manickam Thirunavukarasu (India)
Zone 17 (Eastern Asia): Min-Soo Lee (Republic of Korea)
Zone 18 (Australasia and South Pacific): Francis Agnew (New Zealand)