During the business meeting of the EMR-IBS, the following officers were elected to form the new executive committee to serve from 2009 to 2011:

• President: Prof. Stergios Tzortzios, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
  stzortz@agr.uth.gr
• Vice President: Diklah Geva, Ben Gurion University; Israel diklah@integristat.com
  
• Secretary/Treasurer: Anil Barak, Hacettepe University, Turkey; anilbarak@yahoo.com
  
• Publicity Officer: Dr. Dimitris Karlis, Athens University of Economics, Greece
  karlis@aueb.gr

Elected representatives of the countries of the Region are:

• Cyprus: Dr. Nicos Middleton ; nicos.middleton@cut.ac.cy  (Technical University of Cyprus)
• Egypt: Dr. Ahmed Gad, Statistics Department, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University
• Greece: Giota Touloumi; gtouloum@med.uoa.gr (Medical School, University of Athens, Greece)
• Israel: Diklah Geva, diklah@integristat.com (Ben Gurion University)
• Jordan: Muhammad Bassam Qasem, Jordan Cancer Registry
• Palestinian Authority: Mahmoud Okasha, University of Gaza
• Saudi Arabia: Mohamed Shoukri, King Faisal Specialist Hospital
• Turkey: Dr. Sevilay Karahan, skarahan@hacettepe.edu.tr (Hacettepe University)
• Bulgaria: Dr. Marussia Bojkova; bojkova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg (University of Sofia , Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria)