Page 8 - Annual Repost 2021

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGES
Dear friends and colleagues all over the world,
Like every year, I am honored to address you in this brief
message of the annual report. We have reached the end
of another year, a difcult year with the continuing
Coronavirus pandemic crisis. However, we do not have the
same concerns we had last year about our Institute’s fate
in this crisis. IIAS has shown its resiliency throughout this crisis,
making us condent that it is here to continue its prestigious
90-year history.
In addition to the positive nancial results that are
expected at the end of this year, we have many
achievements at the level of service delivery to our
valuable members. We have resumed our onsite
conferences although partially. We have developed a
strong capacity to hold hybrid events. We expect all of our
events to be hybrid in 2022 and there are six of them
planned already. Our judicious investments in our virtual
platform and online conferencing will come in handy.
Publications are thriving with the new Open Access
strategy alongside our traditional channels of IRAS and the
Palgrave Book series. ICAPA has also restarted with a
consistent pipeline of candidates for accreditations. IASIA
and our regional groups in Asia, Europe and Latin America
have had good years as well. Their Presidents’ reports in this
annual report are testimony to that.
The key question now is where do we go from here?
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Dr. Ra’ed
Ben Shams
President of the
International Institute of
Administrative Sciences (IIAS)
One lesson we learned from this crisis is that our most
reliable resource are our state members who constitute
80% of our membership revenue. This past year, we were
able to enroll a new state member to represent the
Kingdom of Jordan, the Institute of Public Administration.
The priority for our membership drive in the year to come
will be to enroll new state members. We have already
started approaching some with our new services.
Of course, membership depends on being able to offer
and promote a value-added proposition. We believe that
we have enhanced ours over the last few years, mainly
through:
• The publication opportunities with the Open Access
outlets like DinA, partner journals, and the IIAS
Publication Governance series;
• The enhanced ICAPA services that we are now offering;