VNGOC Extraordinary General Meeting

The VNGOC Extraordinary General Meeting scheduled Friday, 10th December 2021, 2pm CET (Vienna) will take place online only. 

Please make sure to register for the Zoom meeting. 

The main purpose of the EGM will be to select a Nominations Committee to manage and oversee the Board elections in March 2022. The reason this decision has been delayed until now is to allow the membership time to consider and discuss a new Terms of Reference for the Nominations Committee. The document has been developed following a proposal submitted by a group of members in March 2021, followed by discussions at the AGM, deliberations by a working group over the summer, and then a series of member consultations in September and October.

The aim of the Terms of Reference is to supplement the existing governance documents and provide greater clarity and support to the Nominations Committee. It also introduces a new part of the process – whereby the Nominations Committee is invited to agree and share a ‘slate’ of recommended candidates for members to consider when voting – taking into account the aspirations of balance, representation and suitability for the role of a VNGOC Board Member. Every VNGOC member will remain entirely free to vote for whomever they want – regardless of whether or not they are on the Nominations Committee ‘slate’.
 
At the EGM, we would like to present this new document to you all, and seek a decision on its adoption prior to selecting the new Nominations Committee itself.