| IUCr Executive Committee as elected at Twenty-First General Assembly, 2008, Osaka, Japan
 
	
		
			| President: | S. Larsen (Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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			| Vice-President: | P.M. Colman (1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Australia)
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			| General Secretary & Treasurer: | S. Lidin (Inorganic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden)
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			| Immediate Past President: | Y. Ohashi (JASRI, Industrial Application Division, Sayo, Japan)
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			| Members: | E. Boldyreva (Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
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			| G.R. Desiraju Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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			| C.J. Gilmore (Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK)
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			| M.L. Hackert (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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			| C. Lecomte (UMR CNRS 7036, LCM3B, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Henri Poincaré, France)
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			| J.M. Pérez-Mato (Fac. Ciencia y Tecnologia, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
 |  L.T.J. Delbaere was elected to serve for the period 2008–2011. However, he died in 2009. The Executive Committee co-opted M.L. Hackert to fill the vacancy thus created until the close of the next General Assembly.
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