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AIBA Election Bulletin AIBA Election Bulletin The AIBA Election Bulletin presents the credentials of all the candidates running for the positions of AIBA President, AIBA Vice Presidents, and Executive Committee Members in ABA Congress 2018 Moscow. It is meant for all the voting delegates to understand their candidatures in a fair and transparent manner. The mandate of all the positions will start immediately after the Congress until the next ordinary Congress with elections in 2022 (2018-2022). 1 Index Candidate(s) for AIBA President Position ................................................................................... 5 Mr Gafur RAHIMOV ......................................................................................................................... 5 Mr Serik KONAKBAYEV .................................................................................................................. 7 Candidate(s) for Vice President and AFBC President Positions ........................................... 9 Mr Sidi Mohamed MOUSTAHSANE .............................................................................................. 9 Candidate(s) for Vice President and AMBC President Positions ........................................ 10 Mr Osvaldo BISBAL ....................................................................................................................... 10 Candidate(s) for Vice President and ASBC President Positions ......................................... 11 Mr Anas AL OTAIBA ...................................................................................................................... 11 Mr Pichai Chunhavajira .................................................................................................................. 13 Candidate(s) for Vice President and EUBC President Positions ......................................... 15 Mr Franco FALCINELLI ................................................................................................................. 15 Candidate(s) for Vice President and OCBC President Positions ........................................ 17 Mr Edgar TANNER ......................................................................................................................... 17 Candidate(s) for Executive Committee Member Position-AFBC ......................................... 18 Mr Carlos LUÍS GONÇALVES ...................................................................................................... 18 Mr NDAYISHIMIYE Eric ................................................................................................................. 19 Mr Bertrand Magloire Roland MENDOUGA ............................................................................... 21 Mr Mohamed Elsayed Aly Touma ................................................................................................ 23 Mr Alfred Bernard Teddy Bongo Ondimba ................................................................................. 24 Mr Gen.(Dr) JOSEPH AYENI ....................................................................................................... 25 Mr EKRIMA HASHIM HAROUN AHMED ................................................................................... 27 Mr MUHANGI MOSES ................................................................................................................... 28 Dr Kennedy L. MUBITA ................................................................................................................. 29 Mr Sidi Mohamed MOUSTAHSANE (Please see page 4) ....................................................... 31 Mr Flavia Furtado ............................................................................................................................ 31 Mr Richard Bienvenue Mouambouma ......................................................................................... 31 Mr Thierno Seydou Ba ................................................................................................................... 31 Candidate(s) for Executive Committee Member Position-AMBC ........................................ 32 Mr Alberto PUIG DE LA BARCA .................................................................................................. 32 Mr RAYMOND (RAY) SILVAS ...................................................................................................... 33 Mr Pasquale (Pat) L Fiacco ........................................................................................................... 34 Mr MAURO JOSÉ DA SILVA ........................................................................................................ 35 2 Madam Luisa Elena BENITEZ GOMEZ ...................................................................................... 37 Mr Osvaldo BISBAL (Please see page 5) ................................................................................ 39 Mr Marco DUPERSOY ................................................................................................................... 39 Mr Victor ALMONTE ....................................................................................................................... 39 Mr Alex GONZALEZ ....................................................................................................................... 39 Mr Jose Laureano Sepulveda ....................................................................................................... 39 Candidate(s) for Executive Committee Member Position-ASBC ......................................... 40 Mr. Di WU ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Madam Ri Jong Hyang .................................................................................................................. 42 Madam Shelly Selowati H. Soejono ............................................................................................. 43 Mr HIROKUNI MOTO ..................................................................................................................... 45 Mr Ram Awale ................................................................................................................................. 47 Mr Dian GOMES ............................................................................................................................. 48 Mr Yousuf Ali Al-Kazim .................................................................................................................. 50 Mr Ajay Singh .................................................................................................................................. 52 Mr Bat-Erdene Dashdemberel ...................................................................................................... 54 Mr Syed Abdul Kadir Syed Abu Bakar ........................................................................................ 54 Mr Pichai Chunhavajira (Please see page 7) .......................................................................... 54 Mr Anas AL OTAIBA (Please see page 6) .............................................................................. 54 Candidate(s) for Executive Committee Member Position-EUBC ......................................... 55 Mr Artur GEVORGYAN .................................................................................................................. 55 Mr Suleyman MIKAYILOV ............................................................................................................. 56 Mr Dmitry TIKHOMOLOV .............................................................................................................. 57 Madam Emilia GRUEVA ................................................................................................................ 59 Mr GIORGIO VINCENZO STEPHEN BRUGNOLI .................................................................... 61 Mr Dominique NATO ...................................................................................................................... 63 Mr Jürgen KYAS ............................................................................................................................. 65 Madam Hana KENDI ...................................................................................................................... 66 Mr Terry SMITH .............................................................................................................................. 68 Mr Leszek PIOTROWSKI .............................................................................................................. 69 Mr Umar KREMLEV ....................................................................................................................... 70 Mr Eyüp GÖZGEÇ .......................................................................................................................... 72 Mr Voloymyr PRODYVUS ............................................................................................................. 73 Mr Lars BROVIL .............................................................................................................................. 75 Mr Felipe Jose MARTINEZ MARTINEZ ...................................................................................... 75 Mr Andreas ANDEREGG .............................................................................................................. 75 3 Candidate(s) for Executive Committee Member Position-OCBC ......................................... 76 Madam Gay Li-jan Uera ................................................................................................................
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