ISO names Robert Steele as new Secretary General

ISO has announced the appointment of a new Secretary General.  Below is the press release we received. 

ISO PRESS RELEASE / COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE DE L’ISO (VERSION FRANCAISE CI-APRES) 
New ISO Secretary-General as of 1 January 2009

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) will have a new Secretary-General from 1 January 2009. He is Mr. Robert Steele who was appointed by the ISO Council at its meeting in Dubai on 17 October 2008, following the 31st ISO General Assembly.

Last March, the ISO Council initiated the process to select a new Secretary-General for the organization after the current Secretary-General, Mr. Alan Bryden, indicated that he was at the Council’s disposal to enable a smooth transition to a successor so that the latter would be in office from the launching next year of the consultations relating to the new ISO Strategic Plan.

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