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International SKA Steering Committee

The International SKA Steering Committee (ISSC) was formed by international agreement at the time of the 24th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Manchester, U.K. The ISSC currently represents eleven countries who are parties to the agreement. The purpose of the ISSC is to:

promote the SKA as an international project,
provide oversight and act as a coordinating body to establish agreed goals and timelines for the project, and
develop a joint international technical and scientific proposal for the SKA, including an implementation and cost plan.

The executive of the ISSC consists of:

Chair:	Jill Tarter, SETI Institute, USA
Vice-chair	Harvey Butcher, ASTRON, The Netherlands
Past-chair	Ron Ekers, CSIRO, Australia
Executive Secretary	Russ Taylor, University of Calgary, Canada

ISSC Members


Wim Brouw CSIRO Australia wim.brouw@atnf.csiro.au	Bernie Burke Massacheussets Institute of Technology United States bfburke@mit.edu	Harvey Butcher ASTRON The Netherlands butcher@nfra.nl	Jim Cordes Cornell University United States cordes@astro.cornell.edu
Peter Dewdney Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory Canada peter.dewdney@hia.nrc.ca	Phil Diamond Jodrell Bank Observatory United Kingdom pdiamond@jb.man.ac.uk	Ron Ekers CSIRO Australia rekers@atnf.csiro.au	Ken Kellermann National Radio Astronomy Observatory United States kkellerm@sarah.cv.nrao.edu
Franco Mantovani Bologna Italy fmantova@ira.bo.cnr.it	Bo Peng Beijing Astrophysical Observatory China pb@class1.bao.ac.cn.	Bob Preston NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories United States rap@logos.jpl.nasa.gov	A. Pramesh Rao National Centre for Radio Astronomy INDIA pramesh@ncra.tifr.res.in
Jill Tarter SETI Institute United States tarter@vger.seti.org	Russ Taylor University of Calgary Canada russ@ras.ucalgary.ca	Yervant Terzian Cornell University United States terzian@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu	Arnold van Ardenne ASTRON The Netherlands ardenne@nfra.nl
Jack Welch Berkeley University United States wwelch@astro.berkeley.edu	Peter Wilkinson Jodrell Bank Observatory United Kingdom pnw@jb.man.ac.uk	Anton Zensus Max-Planck-Insitut fur Radioastronomie Germany azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Minutes of ISSC Meetings


8th ISSC Meeting	16-17 August 2002	Dwingeloo, NL
7th ISSC Meeting	17-18 January 2002	Bologna, Italy
6th ISSC Meeting	27 July 2001	Berkeley, USA
5th ISSC Meeting	5 January 2001	Boston, U.S.A.
4th ISSC Meeting	6 August 2000	Jodrell Bank, U.K.
3rd ISSC Meeting	26 March 2000	Munich, Germany
2nd ISSC Meeting	17 August 1999	Toronto, Canada