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The 18th IEA Officers were elected at the IEA Council meeting held in the Golden Tulip Palace Hotel of Recife, Brazil on February 12. The new officers are: President, Eric Min-yang Wang of Ergonomics Society of Taiwan (EST), Vice President and Secretary General, Margo Fraser of Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE), and Vice President and Treasurer, Yushi Fujita of Japan Ergonomics Society (JES). 

Eric Wang is a professor and the Convener of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Program in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management in National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He was the previous Vice President and Secretary General for the IEA and the former President of the EST. Margo Fraser is an ergonomics consultant in Calgary, Canada in her own consulting company. She is a former President of ACE and has served as the Executive Director of ACE since 2005. Yushi Fujita is an Executive Manager in a safety consulting company. He is the previous Chairperson of IEA Professional Standards and Education Committee and has been serving on several committees in JES actively. 

The new IEA officers were inaugurated in the closing ceremony of the 18th Triennial Congress on February 16 in the traditional way by handing over of the IEA flag from the outgoing President Andrew Imada to the new President Eric Wang. The achievements of the outgoing officers were honored and appreciated. New executive committee chairs are expected to be determined in March.