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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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