APPENDIX TO ITEM 6.5
Nominations for Honorary Members of FIG
Professor Ian Philip Williamson - Australia
The Institution of Surveyors, Australia wishes to nominate Professor Ian
Philip Williamson to be considered for election as an Honorary Member of the
FIG.
Professor Williamson is well known to the members of the FIG through his
tireless work in the area of Land Administration Management and Reform,
particularly during his time as the Vice Chair (1991 - 1993) and Chair (1994 -
1998) of FIG Commission 7.
The brief attached resume of Ian's achievements illustrates that he is
certainly not someone who waits for opportunities to present themselves, but
rather goes out and creates opportunities for others.
The Institution feels that Professor Williamson's role in actively promoting
the role and involvement of surveyors in the processes by which land is
administered and managed around the world has brought a great deal of credit
upon the international surveying community as a whole and certainly upon the
FIG. His work for the international surveying community also extends well beyond
the area covered by FIG Commission 7, with an active involvement in
international surveying education. The Department of Geomatics at the University
of Melbourne of which Ian is the Head of Department has embarked upon exchange
student programs with other international educational institutions including the
Aalborg University in Denmark.
While Ian had finished his term as Chairman of FIG Commission 7 in 1998 he
has maintained his usual hectic pace in developing and hosting forums where
issues of world importance have been addressed and real steps towards providing
solutions have been formed. In October 1999 he was the co-organiser (with Prof
Don Grant of Australia) of the UN-FIG Bathurst Workshop held in Bathurst
Australia and the follow up UN-FIG Conference on Land Administration for
Sustainable Development which was held in Melbourne Australia. The fact that
it was supported by five UN Agencies, the World Bank, the Victorian and New
South Wales State Governments, the Australian Federal Government, professional
associations such as our Institution and the private industry amply demonstrates
the high standing Ian has in the international community, and it is to his
credit that he always puts forward surveying as the profession, and surveyors as
the professionals who can provide the solutions.
The Institution notes that the FIG have recognised the manner in which Ian
has been able to foster links with International Agencies such as the United
Nations and the World Bank, and have appointed him as the FIG's UN Liaison
Director. The Institution is certain that Ian will continue to promote the
international surveying profession, as represented by the FIG to those and other
international agencies.
The Institution feels that the commitment Ian has made to the international
surveying community, the enthusiasm by which he approaches all of his tasks and
that he has brought a great deal of credit upon the FIG and its member
associations should be recognised by election as an Honorary Member of the FIG.
As such, we would request that this nomination be considered by the General
Assembly of the FIG at its next meeting.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Yours Faithfully
The Institution of Surveyors, Australia
John Crickmore
Chief Executive Officer
Professor Andrzej Hopfer - Poland
On behalf of the Association of Polish Surveyors I would like
to propose Professor Dr. Andrzej Hopfer for Honorary Membership of the
International Federation of Surveyors.
Professor Andrzej Hopfer has been very active within the
Polish Association. He has contributed very much to the international profile of
the Association of Polish Surveyors initiating Association's international
actions and taking part in numerous organisational works.
He is internationally recognised as an outstanding person in
the field of surveying science, particularly in cadastre, land management and
property valuation. Occupying the highest academic position - the Rector
Magnificus of the Olsztyn University of Agriculture and Technology - he has
developed very much international relations of Polish surveyors with famous
foreign scientific centres for surveying and land management.
He is a member and a chairman of several scientific and
professional societies. He was rewarded with honorary membership of foreign and
domestic scientific institutions, among others - doctor honoris causa of two
universities.
Prof. Andrzej Hopfer has served as chairperson of FIG
Commission 7 and for a number of years as Polish national delegate to this
Commission. He was initiator and organiser of the Cadastral Congress held in
Warsaw in 1998 under FIG umbrella. He took an active part in numerous activities
of the Commission.
More detailed CV of Andrzej Hopfer is enclosed. Our
Association would be pleased to comply with any further formalities concerning
the nomination.
Yours sincerely
Prof. Kazimierz Czarnecki
President
Stowarzyszenie Geodetów Polskich
Full CV attached to the printed agenda.
Activities within FIG:
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Chairman of FIG Commission 7 1983-1986
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National delegate to FIG Commission 7 since 1975
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Active participant to many official FIG activities:
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The FIG Statement on the Cadastre, 1995
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FAO and FIG Future Collaboration in Cadastral Reform
in Rural Economics in Transition, Melbourne 1995
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Organiser of the Warsaw Cadastral Congress concluded
with Warsaw Resolutions, 1998
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The Bathurst Declaration, 1999
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Practical experience in creating, maintaining and
modernising of land information system and planning of rural areas in
Poland, Germany, Czech, Bulgaria and Hungary. Advising solutions concerning
above mentioned problem in Algeria, Vietnam and China.
Grahame K. Lindsay, LS FIS(Aust) MAIC - Australia
It is a great pleasure for the FIG Bureau 2000-2003 to
nominate Grahame K. Lindsay as an Honorary Member of FIG. The Bureau is
convinced that all members of the Federation share the Bureau’s appreciation
to Grahame for his great contribution in the development of FIG during his
eight years as a member of the FIG Bureau, first as Secretary General and
thereafter as a Vice President.
Grahame Lindsay (born 1935) has spent a lifetime of work in
the land information business in many Australian States and Territories.
Trained as a surveyor in Western Australia, he began his professional career
working on rural land development projects for that State’s government. In
South Australia he was engaged on route selection for the major power
distribution network. As Deputy Surveyor General of the Northern Territory
(1974-1978) he helped it to prepare for self government in 1978. Whilst
working as Regional Manager of the Australian Survey Office in Sydney
(1984-1987) he was seconded (in 1986) to the New South Wales government to
lead a review team on the Department of Lands. He retired from the post of
Commonwealth Surveyor General (1988-1992) and General Manager of AUSLIG
(1988-1992) to become Secretary General of FIG (1992-1995), in which position
he was able to maintain regular contact with the world’s best practice in
land and land information management. In the UK Bureau Grahame Lindsay served
as one of the Vice Presidents supporting the Bureau with his broad experience
with FIG and it members (1996-1999).
Grahame Lindsay’s appointment as General Manager of
AUSLIG followed immediately upon the Australian government’s decision to
merge its Division of National Mapping and the Australian Survey Office into a
single, new commercial organisation. This gave him extensive experience in the
modernisation, restructuring and commercialisation of a large government
agency, from the start of the process. He subsequently managed the business,
as it engaged in a broad of community service obligations and client-based
surveying and land information services. These included Australia’s national
mapping and digital data programmes, together with its major remote sensing
facility. He introduced a number of new initiatives as AUSLIG was modernised
for its new role. Throughout this period he was also serving as a member, and
subsequently as chairman, of the joint Australian/New Zealand Land Information
Council.
Grahame Lindsay’s other appointments during the past
fifteen years have included the chairmanships of the Commonwealth Land
Information Forum, the Australian Liaison Committee for Remote Sensing by
Satellite and the Australian Space Office’s Remote Sensing Committee. He has
served as a member of the Australian Council for Awards in Advance Education
and he chaired the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Committee
on Geodesy and Geographic Information in Antarctic. He was a Councillor of the
Institution of Surveyors Australia for ten years and its national President in
1988-89. In 1995 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
During the his term of office as Secretary General and Vice
President of FIG the Federation has developed to the real international
professional organisation that it is today. The results are based, of course,
on the previous Bureaux’ activities but were implemented in full first
during the Australian Bureau, where Grahame’s role was very central, and
then during the UK Bureau. These new activities include the membership
expansion especially in the developing countries and in southern hemisphere,
closer relationship to the UN and its agencies, improved information delivery
system and increase in the commission activities.
Grahame’s work has always been supported by his family
and especially his wife Glenys.
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