Elections during the CGPM meeting
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
Notes
A call for nominations to the CIPM was sent to Member States in
Criteria and process for Election of CIPM Members
Call for nominations to the CIPM
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