District Leadership Nominations 2025/2026

District Leadership Committee Report

On 6th November 2024, the District announced its call for candidates for the upcoming District elections.  A further call for candidates was announced on 8th January 2025.  Members were given until 2nd February 2025 to declare their intent to run for office.

Each candidate who declared their intent to run by this deadline was contacted by the District Leadership Committee (DLC) to interview for their intended role(s).

The DLC nominates the following candidates by majority vote for each of the following roles.  Offices with more than one candidate are listed in alphabetical order by last name.  (Click on the name to see the biographical details.)

DLT PostCandidates
District DirectorMo Dawodu
Debbie Williams
Program Quality DirectorMo Dawodu
Seema Menon
Club Growth DirectorMike Burrows
Lynne Cantor Gayer
Guler Cortis
Ramesh Halai
Division (A) DirectorYogendra Paranjpe
Division (B) Director Mary-Anne Ledger
Division (C) DirectorRichard Jones
Division (J) DirectorJohn Christie
Clare Lawrence
Division (K) DirectorHarshit Agrawal
Division (L) DirectorElena Bella

*The roles of District Finance Manager, District Administration Manager and District Public Relations Manager are appointed by the incoming District Director. The DLC will take expressions of interest to pass on but will not be interviewing candidates for these roles.

The DLC has verified that each of the nominated candidates meets the qualifications for the office they seek as specified in Article VII of the District Administrative Bylaws.

The DLC report is valid, in that all processes and deadlines have been complied with.  The DLC reort is however incomplete as the DLC is unable to nominate candidates for the Roles of Division D Director and Division H Director.

Andy Hammond
Chair, District Leadership Committee