As per Statute of the Centre, a Governing Council (GC), composed of all the member countries of the Centre, looks after the affairs of the Centre.

The Governing Council has so far held eleven meetings as below:

Extraordinary GC Meeting: New Delhi (India), 21st August 1989

1st GC Meeting:  New Delhi (India), 16-18 March 1989

2nd GC Meeting: New Delhi (India), 15-16 March 1990

3rd GC Meeting: Havana (Cuba), 13-15 February 1991

4th GC Meeting:  Cairo (Egypt), 17-18 February 1992

5th GC Meeting:  New Delhi (India), 12-13 April 1993

6th GC Meeting: Kathmandu (Nepal), 12-13 March 1994

7th GC Meeting:  Cairo (Egypt), 2-3 May 1996

8th GC Meeting:  Dhaka (Bangladesh), 8-9 November 1997

9th GC Meeting:  New Delhi (India), 15-16 November 1999

10th GC Meeting: Cairo (Egypt), 14-15 December 2002

11th GC Meeting: Jakarta/Bandung (Indonesia), 21-24 November 2005

12th GC Meeting: Cairo (Egypt), 16-17 November, 2009

 

    Bureau of the Governing Council

As per Statute of the Centre, for each session of the Governing Council a President, two Vice-Presidents and a Rapporteur are elected. These office bearers constitute the Bureau of the Governing Council. 

The current office bearers of the 12^th Governing Council are:

8 President	Prof. Maged Al-Sherbiny (Egypt)
8 Vice-President	Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami (India)
8 Vice-President	Mr. Vuyani Lingela (South Africa)
8 Rapporteur	Dr. Jorge Luis Fernandez Chamero (Cuba)

The Bureau of the GC, if required, may meet in between the GC meetings. Thus in order to review the programmes and activities of the Centre, the Bureau held its interim meetings in New Delhi in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 and 2003, in Colombia in 1997, in Indonesia in 2000, in Mauritius in 2001, in Sri Lanka in 2004, in Cuba in 2006 and in Zambia in 2008.

Former Presidents of the Governing Council

Since the establishment of the NAM S&T Centre, the office of the President of the Governing Council has been held by:
 

Dr. M. Y. Saada (Egypt): From March 1989 – November 1999

Mr. M. Fazlur Rahman (Bangladesh): From November 1999 – September 2002

Prof. Dr. Fawzi A.A. Elrefaie (Egypt): From September 2002 – November 2005

Prof. Carunia M. Firdausy (Indonesia): From November 2005 - November 2009

Prof. Mohamed Tarek Hussein (Egypt): From December 2009 - May 2010

The Secretariat of the Centre is centrally located at New Delhi, India in its own premises. Director is the Executive Head of the Centre and is appointed by the Governing Council.

The office of the Director of the NAM S&T Centre has been held / is being held by:

Dr. Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy                  (India):	August 1989 – February 1992
Mr. Kailash Nath Johry                              (India):	March 1992 – June 2002
Prof. Dr. Arun Prakash Kulshreshtha              (India):	July 2002 -

 

The personnel working in the Centre are:

Mr. M. Bandyopadhyay : Senior Expert and Administrative Officer (on contract since May ’05)

Dr. V.P. Kharbanda      : Publications Advisor (Honorary)

Mr. Rahul Kumra          : Private Secretary to Director

Mr. Sunil Kumar           : Accounts Manager

Mr. Pankaj Buttan        : Data Processing Manager

Mr. Jayakumaran         : Public Relations Manager

Mr. Ramesh Negi         : Website Manager

Mr. Hansha Ram Arya   : Librarian and Documentation Manager

Mr. Pooran Ram           : House Keeper

Besides the above staff, the Centre employs fresh science post-graduates on monthly stipend basis until such time as they get suitable employment elsewhere, subject to a maximum tenure of 3 years with the Centre. Currently the following Scientific Assistants are working in the Centre. Through this arrangement the Centre is helping in capacity building in scientific affairs without gender bias.

         Mr. Gaurav Gaur

         Ms. Chitra Prasad

         Ms. Priyanka Rana

         Ms. Isha Parmar