In a note to members, president Paul Gooch said that since January 2024 ITCO has been operating with a small board with one representative from each of the four divisions.
In addition, it introduced a management committee at the beginning of 2024, with the aim of capturing a broad, diverse, and more representative body of opinion from the membership.
During the course of 2024, ITCO also created a Finance Sub-Committee (FSC), reporting to the board, with the purpose of ensuring the oversight and governance associated with ITCO finances.
As a result of these changes, it became necessary to review ITCO’s Rules of Administration, and to ensure that these were also aligned with the ITCO Vision and Strategy.
A final proposal was presented to the management committee on 9 April, with the following key decisions reached:
- The ITCO Board will be expanded to two board members per division, “offering the opportunity to bring motivated and committed fresh ideas onto the board”.
- The divisions will each elect two candidates to become board members.
- All board members will be elected for two-year terms, with no limit on the number of terms. (This replaces the former system, whereby the vice chair automatically succeeded the chairman after two years.) The two-year terms begin on 1 January and continue until 31 December in the following year.
- The president will be elected by the board for a two-year term, with a maximum of three terms. Terms begin 1 January and continue until 31 December in the following year. The president is accountable to the ITCO board.
- Consistent with ITCO’s regionalisation strategy, the board can, at its discretion, appoint regional vice presidents. These would not be members of the board.
- The management committee, in its present format will be discontinued. It will be replaced by the expanded board, together with FSC representatives who are not already on the board, the ITCO president, and regional vice presidents. Working Group chairs may also be invited by the board.
In order for the enlarged Board to be in place in time for the next presidential election (scheduled for November 2025), the divisional elections for two board members will, as an exception, be arranged in June 2025 (after the transport logistic event).