A postal ballot to select the 5 elected members of the Motions
Committee for the 2015 World Schools Debating Championships opens
today and will close in 3 weeks’ time on 26th January.
There are 6 candidates for 5 elected positions on the Motions
Committee. The candidates are:
– Charlie Morris (England)
– Hayah Eichler (Israel)
– Zaynab Al Nasser (Kuwait)
– Branislav Fečko-Čegiň (Slovakia)
– Daniel de Kadt (South Africa)
– Cindi Timmons (United States)
(One further candidate – Crash Wigley from Wales – was also nominated
but has now withdrawn from the election.)
Information about each of the candidates can be found in the document
attached to this e-mail. The information in the attached document
includes the candidates’ personal statements and their responses to
the Exec’s request for them to submit 3 sample motions they have set
during the past 3 years.
VOTING PROCEDURE
Under the WSDC Rules, a nation is allowed to vote in a postal ballot
if the nation has participated in at least 2 of the past 3 WSDC
tournaments. Each nation may cast one ballot, and the ballot must be
submitted by the nation’s official delegate to the WSDC Tournament
Committee.
According to information given to me by the Tournament Committee
Executive, the nations which are eligible to vote in this postal
ballot and their official voting delegates are as follows:
1. ARGENTINA – Nicolas Gimenez
2. AUSTRALIA – Christopher Bisset
3. BANGLADESH – Rishad Sharif
4. BARBADOS – Carl Applewhaite
5. BERMUDA – Marisa Sharpe
6. CANADA – Tracey Lee
7. CHILE – Ana Tomassini
8. CHINA – Loke Wing Fatt
9. CZECH REPUBLIC – Matěj Pilát
10. DENMARK – Charlotte Ib
11. ENGLAND – Janine Ryan
12. ESTONIA – Kaspar Kelder
13. GERMANY – Christopher Sanchez
14. GREECE – Kallina Basli
15. HONG KONG – Emmanuel Reed
16. INDIA – Krishna Kumar Santhanagopalan
17. INDONESIA – Rachmat Nurcahyo
18. IRELAND – Ross McGuire
19. ISRAEL – Yoni Cohen-Idov
20. JAPAN – Masako Takahashi
21. KOREA – Roger Hatridge
22. KUWAIT – Abigail Bartholomew
23. LITHUANIA – Rokas Atkociunas
24. MALAYSIA – Iqbal Bazari
25. MEXICO – Mark Webber
26. MONGOLIA – delegate to be confirmed
27. NETHERLANDS – Menno Schellekens
28. NEW ZEALAND – Udayan Mukherjee
29. NIGERIA – Dare Oritu
30. PAKISTAN – Aisha Ahmad
31. PERU – Cristina Loayza
32. PHILIPPINES – Kip Oebanda
33. QATAR – Maja Cimerman
34. ROMANIA – Simona Mazilu
35. SCOTLAND – Irene McGrath
36. SINGAPORE – Mark Gabriel
37. SLOVAKIA – Andrej Schulcz
38. SLOVENIA – Bojana Skrt
39. SOUTH AFRICA – Luke Churchyard
40. SRI LANKA – Sanjit Dias
41. SWAZILAND – Mlungisi Dlamini
42. SWEDEN – Wissam Chalabi
43. THAILAND – Bird Joz
44. TURKEY – Miha Andric
45. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Grant Smith
46. UNITED STATES – Jeffrey Wunn
47. WALES – Martin Pollard
This list of voting delegates may not be fully up to date. If your
nation wishes to change your voting delegate for this postal ballot,
please e-mail me at [email protected] BEFORE your nation casts its
ballot to let me know of the new voting delegate. (Please also cc any
e-mails about changes in voting delegates to the Chair of the
Tournament Committee Executive, Beth James, at [email protected].)
Your nation’s voting delegate can cast their ballot online.
If your nation’s delegate has any problems accessing or casting their
votes at this webpage, please e-mail me at [email protected].
There are 6 candidates running for 5 elected positions on the Motions
Committee. Each nation’s delegate may vote for a MAXIMUM OF 5
CANDIDATES. (Voting for fewer than 5 candidates is permitted.)
The 5 elected candidates will work with the 2 appointed members of the
committee from Singapore (Vernie Oliveiro and Samuel Myat San) to
select the motions which will be debated at WSDC 2015.
If your nation wishes to vote in this election, please ensure that
your voting delegate casts their ballot by 26th January.
If you have any questions about the ballot, please e-mail me at
[email protected].
Regards,
Mark Gabriel
Returning Officer