International Organizing Committee
Prof. Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake
Conference Chair; President, Sri Lankan Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering; Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Antonio Samaniego
Conference Co-chair; Executive Secretary, Peruvian Geoengineering Society; SRK Consulting Company, Peru
Dr. Rini Asnida Abdullah
General Secretary, Malaysian Society for Rock Mechanics, Malaysia
Dr. Akm Badrul Alarm
President, Bangladesh Rock Mechanics Society, Bangladesh
Prof. Leandro R. Alejano
President, Sociedad Espanola de Mecanica de las Rocas, Spain
Dr. Michael Bardanis
President, Hellenic Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Greece
Mr. Guiseppe Barindelli
Codelco Mining Company, Chile
Dr. Monica Fernanda Bedoya-Martinez
President, Columbian Geotechnical Society, Columbia
Prof. Dr.- Conrad Boley
President, German Geotechnical Society, Germany
Dr. Mbalenhle Buthelezi
Secretary, South African National Institute of Rock Engineering, South Africa
Dr. Eliane Cabot
Secretary, Canadian Rock Mechanics Association, Canada
Dr. Vladimir Cebasek
President, Serbian Society for Rock Mechanics, Serbia
Prof. Emeritus Yoginder Paul Chugh
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Dr. Enkhbayar Dandar
President, Mongolian Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Mongolia
Dr. A.K. Dinkar
Secretary, Indian National Group of the ISRM, India
Dr. Juraj B. Durove
President, National Group of the Slovak Republic of the ISRM, Slovakia
Dr. Catrin Edelbro
President, Swedish Rock Engineering Association, Sweden
Dr. Mustafa Erkayaoglu
President, Turkish ISRM Group, Turkey
Dr. Mustapha Fares
President, Moroccan National Group of ISRM, Morocco
Dr. Marcos Massao Futai
President, Comite Brasileiro de Mechanica das Rochas, Brasil
Prof. Robert Galler
President, Austrian Society of Geomechanics, Austria
Prof. Muriel Gasc-Barbier
ISRM Vice-President for Europe, France
Prof. Yunfeng Ge
China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Dr. Martin Grenon
ISRM Vice-President for North America, Canada
Prof. Bojana Grujic
University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prof. Essaieb Hamdi
President, Tunisian Society for Rock Mechanics, Tunisia
Prof. Manchao He
President, Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, China
Dr. Pengfei He
China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, China
Mr. Esteban Hormazabal
ISRM Vice-President for Latin America, Chile
Dr. Paul Horrey
ISRM NZ Representative, New Zealand
Dr. Atli Karl Ingimarsson
Secretary General, Icelandic Geotechnical Society, Iceland
Prof. Seokwon Jeon
ISRM President, South Korea
Prof. Milorad Jovanovski
ISRM Vice-President at Large, N. Macedonia
Dr. Vojkan Jovicic
President of the Rock Mechanics Section, Slovenian Geotechnical Society, Slovenia
Dr. Kiyoshi Kishida
ISRM Vice-President at Large, Japan
Dr. Risto Kiuru
Secretary, The Finnish National Group of the ISRM, Finland
Prof. Tae-young Ko
Secretary-General, Korean Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, South Korea
Prof. Petr Konicek
President, ISRM National Group of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Prof. Heinz Konietzky
Technical University of Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Prof. Iryna Kovalevska
President, Ukrainian Geotechnical Society, Ukraine
Dr. Luis Lamas
ISRM Secretary-General, Portugal
Dr. James Lawrence
British Geotechnical Association, United Kingdom
Dr. Hughes Legrain
President, ISRM National Group of Belgium, Belgium
Prof. Francois Malan
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Jannie Maritz
ISRM Vice-President for Africa, South Africa
Dr. Hossein Masoumi
Monash University, Australia
Prof. Leo Matesic
President, Croatian Geotechnical Society, Croatia
Dr. Jose Pavon Mendoza
President, Sociedad Paraguaya de Geotecnia, Paraguay
Dr. Henrik Mikkelsen
President, Dansk Geoteknisk Forening, Denmark
Dr. Nikolay Milev
Secretary, Scientific and Technical Union of Mining, Geology and Metallurgy, Bulgaria
Prof. Ki-Bok Min
ISRM Vice-President for Asia, South Korea
Dr. Kimie Suzuki Morales
President, Chilean Society of Rock Mechanics, Chile
Dr. Chris Munoz
President, Associacion Costarricence de Geotechnia, Costa Rica
Dr. D.J.M. Ngan-Tillard
President, ISRM National Group of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Dr. Ervin Paci
President, Albanian Geotechnical Society, Albania
Dr. Valentin Castellanos Pedrozsa
Chairman, Mexican Rock Mechanics Committee, Mexico
Dr. Igor Peshevski
President, Macedonian Association for Geotechnics, N. Macedonia
Dr. Noppadol Phenwej
ISRM Representative of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society, Thailand
Dr. Alexandre Pinto
President, Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, Portugal
Dr. Laurent Pitteloud
President, Geotechnik Schweiz, Switzerland
Prof. Sebastiano Rampello
President, Italian Geotechnical Society, Italy
Prof. Ricado J. Rocca
Secretary, Grupo Argentino de Mechanica de Rocas, Argentina
Dr. Danny Rodrigues Sandoval
President, Bolivian Association of Geomechanics, Bolivia
Dr. Pawan Kumar Shrestha
President, Nepal Society for Rock Mechanics, Nepal
Prof. Mahendra Singh
President, Indian National Group of the ISRM, India
Mr. Peter Smeallie
Executive Director, American Rock Mechanics Association, USA
Prof. Luis Ribeiro Sousa
University of Porto, Portugal
Dr. Tim Thompson
President, Australian Geomechanics Society, Australia
Dr. Muzadzi Renias Tirivabaya
President, Zimbabwe National Institute of Rock Engineering, Zimbabwe
Prof. Akos Torok
President, Hungarian National Group of the ISRM, Hungary
Prof. Vladimir Trushko
President, Russian Geomechanics Association, Russia
Prof. Michael Tsesarsk
President, Israel Rock Mechanics Association, Israel
Dr. Pham Quoc Tuan
Secretary-General, Vietnam Society of Rock Mechanics, Vietnam
Dr. Bryan Watson
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Prof. Ridho Wattimena
President, Indonesian Rock Mechanics, Society, Indonesia
Dr. Wu Wei
President, ISRM Singapore National Group, Singapore
Dr. Hanne E. Wiig
President, Norwegian Group for Rock Mechanics, Norway
Prof. Qiong Wu
China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Dr. Yan Xing
China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
Dr. Xu-xu Yang
Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Sabid Zekan
Vice President, Geotechnical Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia
Dr. Fengshou Zhang
ISRM Vice-President at Large, China
Dr. Qianbing Zhang
ISRM Vice-President for Australasia, Australia