Results of the 2026 CIPM Election
On 15 October 2026, an election was conducted at the 28th meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) for the 18 seats on the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM).
The following were elected:
Venu Gopal Achanta | India
Director, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory of India (NPLI), India
Megumi Akoshima | Japan
Director, Center for Quality Management of Metrology of the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), Japan
Davide Calonico | Italy
Scientific Director, National Institute of Metrological Research/Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Italy
Victoria Coleman | Australia
Chief Metrologist, National Measurement Institute Australia (NMIA), Australia
Dolores del Campo Maldonado | Spain
Director, Centro Español de Metrología (CEM), Spain
Cornelia Denz | Germany
President, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
Jean-Remy Filtz | France
Former Director, Industrial and Scientific Metrology, Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE), France
Hans Arne Frøystein | Norway
Director, Head of Department, Norwegian Metrology Service/Justervesenet, Norway
Jan-Theodoor Janssen | UK
Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK
James Kushmerick | USA
Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Héctor Laiz | Argentina
Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (INTI), Argentina
Georgette Macdonald | Canada
Director General, Metrology, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada
Yon-Kyu Park | Republic of Korea
Vice President, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Republic of Korea
Jeseelan Pillay | South Africa
Director, Chemical, Materials and Medical Metrology (CMM), National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA), South Africa
Jifeng Qu | China
Vice Director General, National Institute of Metrology (NIM), China
Philippe Richard | Switzerland
Director (CEO), Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), Switzerland
Gustavo Palmeira Ripper | Brazil
Technical-Scientific Advisor, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia (INMETRO), Brazil
Marek Šmíd | Czechia
Deputy Director General, Director for Fundamental Metrology, Czech Metrology Institute (CMI), Czechia
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