WFN 2025 Elections: Candidates

Click on the links below to view the candidate statements for nominations.
All candidates listed in alphabetical order.

• VOTING BALLOT 1
  WFN President  [4-year term, 2026-2029] 
  To take office from 1 January 2026 – Position vacated by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Grisold.
  
  
  

  Prof. Steven Lewis

  Prof. Dame Pamela Shaw

• VOTING BALLOT 2
  WFN First Vice president  [4-year term, 2026-2029] 
  To take office from 1 January 2026 – Position vacated by Prof Guy Rouleau.
  
  

  Prof. Riadh Gouider

  Prof. Tissa Wijeratne

  
  
  
• VOTING BALLOT 3
  WFN Elected Trustee  [3-year term, 2025-2027]
  To take office immediately following the council of delegates meeting – Position vacated by Dr Chandrashekhar Meshram, who is eligible for re-election.
  
  

  Dr Chandrashekhar Meshram

  Prof. Mayela Rodriguez-Violante

  Prof. Dr Ghazaleh Tabatabai

The deadline for submitting candidates for nomination (Ballot 1 - 3) was 14th February 2025. Nominations made after this deadline are still possible:

1. To nominate another individual—who must be a member of a WFN member society—the nominee must obtain the supporting signatures of five or more authorised WFN delegates, together with a CV and a letter of agreement to stand.
2. Additional nominations must be submitted to the Secretary General c/o the WFN headquarters at elections@wfneurology.org 
3. The deadline for additional nominations is 1st August 2025 [30 days prior to the start of electronic voting].
   
   

• VOTING BALLOT 4
  Host venue for the XXIX World Congress of Neurology (Europe 2028)
  

• • Budapest, Hungary [Hungexpo Budapest Congress and Exhibition Centre]
  • Copenhagen, Denmark [Bella Center Copenhagen]
  • Istanbul, Türkiye [Istanbul Congress Center]

Voting will take place by electronic voting (remote online ballot) between 1st-19th September 2025.

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