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Executive Council

The Executive Council is the decision-making body of WFME. It meets annually to set the strategy and work plan which is managed by the Presidency (President, Vice President and Past President), and delivered through its staff and advisers. Individual profiles of the members of the Executive Council, WFME staff and advisers are published under People.

Voting members

  • Six regional associations for medical education:
    • Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
    • Association for Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR)
    • Association of Medical Schools in Africa (AMSA)
    • Pan-American Federation of Associations of Medical Schools (PAFAMS)
    • South East Asian Regional Association for Medical Education (SEARAME)
    • Western Pacific Association of Medical Education (WPAME)
  • Two founding members:
    • World Health Organization (WHO)
    • World Medical Association (WMA)
  • Three executive members:
    • ECFMG®, a Member of Intealth™
    • International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)
    • Junior Doctors Network (JDN)
  • WFME President
  • WFME Vice-President
  • WFME Past President

Risk Committee

  • Membership: Otmar Kloiber – WMA (in chair), Marcon Núñez – PAFAMS, William Pinsky – ECFMG, Ahmed Rumayyan – AMEEMR, Liz Butler – external adviser
  • Committee Secretary: Jana Cohlová

Finance Committee

  • Membership: Titi Savitri – SEARAME (in chair), David Gordon – WFME Past-President, Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa – AMSA, William Pinsky – ECFMG, Liz Butler – external adviser
  • Committee Secretary: Barbora Hrabalová

Regional Assocations Presidents’ Forum

  • Membership: Presidents of the six Regional Associations for medical education

WFME Executive Council meeting, April 2021


Executive Council_April 2021

(L-R) top row: Romana Kohnová (WFME), Anne-Marie Delage (WFME), Professor David Gordon (President), Dr Otmar Kloiber (WMA), Professor Janet Grant (Senior Adviser to the President)

(L-R) second row: Professor Titi Savitri (SEARAME), Professor Trevor Gibbs (AMEE), Professor Ducksun Ahn (Vice-President), Mark Dexter (Senior Policy Adviser), Professor Ricardo Leon-Bórquez (PAFAMS)

(L-R) third row: Professor William W Pinsky (ECFMG), Dr Yassen Tcholakov (JDN), Dr Abdullah Al-Khafajy (IFMSA), Barbora Hrabalová (WFME),  Professor Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa (AMSA)

(L-R) bottom row: Dr Giorgio Cometto (WHO), Dr Ahmed Al-Rumayyan (AMEEMR), Professor Stefan Lindgren (Past President), Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera (WPAME)

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Relevant documents

  • WFME Constitution
  • WFME Constitution (French)
  • WFME History of the First 40 Years (1972-2012)
  • WFME 2012 poster: What is the WFME?
  • WFME Leaflet

Executive Council meetings

  • 1997 Vienna, Austria
  • 1998 Kandy, Sri Lanka
  • 2000 Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2002 Irbid, Jordan
  • 2003 Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2004 Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 2005 Alcalá, Spain
  • 2006 Philadelphia, USA
  • 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2009 Irbid, Jordan
  • 2010 Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2011 Malmö, Sweden
  • 2012 Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2013 Quito, Ecuador
  • 2014 Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2015 Cairo, Egypt
  • 2016 Melbourne, Australia
  • 2017 Ferney-Voltaire, France
  • 2018 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2019 Seoul, South Korea
  • 2020 Ferney-Voltaire, France

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