Dear UMAC members,
2025 is an election year for the Board of UMAC and we are writing to you with information about the election process for this year. Details about all the candidates for the UMAC 2025 election will be made available via UMAC’s website in early November.
Because the program for ICOM Dubai is full, the UMAC Annual General Meeting for 2025 will be held online on November 27, 2025 (more details to follow separately). Voting for the new Board (Chair, Vice Chairs, Secretary, Treasurer, and Ordinary Members) will commence 24 hours before the AGM and the results of the election will be announced during the AGM.
You must be a financial member of ICOM who has selected UMAC as your primary International Committee to vote. Votes will be cast by email to an email address established specifically for the election. Individual and Institutional members are allowed one vote each.
The UMAC elections email address: umacelection@gmail.com
The ballot papers will be emailed to all email addresses linked with the ICOM Secretariat membership data. Each email address will be allowed one response (only) with a completed ballot form. We are therefore relying on the fact that your national committee has transferred your membership fee to Paris for 2025 and ICOM have updated the membership list, and that your IT system doesn’t strip attachments from umacelection@gmail.com messages and / or you can recover such from spam filters.
The ballot form will ask if you are voting as an Individual or Institutional member. You will be required to answer this to cast a legitimate vote. The election committee will remove completed ballot forms from return email messages and mark the returning email address from the membership list.
The subject line for casting your vote will be “UMAC Board Election 2025 Ballot Vote”.
The vote will close at the commencement of the AGM regardless of whether all returned ballot forms have been received by the election committee. This will give us time to finalise the count and allow us to announce the membership of the new UMAC Board for 2025 to 2028 before the end of the 2025 AGM.
We also take this opportunity to remind you that all nominations must be submitted by 24 October 2025 to both our email addresses.
Levent Tökün & Kirsten Vincenz
UMAC Elections Committee 2025