Message from the Director

I am very honoured to be elected an IEEE Director for the IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) and to be the first woman ever to serve in this position in the forty years history of Region 10. I would like to thank you all for the trust put in me and I hope I would be able to follow in steps of my distinguished predecessors.

Our Region with over 67,000 members is now the biggest in the world. Our membership has doubled every ten years since its creation on 1 January 1967. It means that in 2017 we may reach over 130,000 members. We have more than 26,000 student members; the highest number of all the Regions. We also have the highest proportion of female members. Our Region is a very special one indeed!

The main characteristics of the Asia-Pacific Region are a very rapid growth and diversity.

Our members come from highly developed countries like Japan, of high income per capita, and from developing countries like Bangladesh, of low GNP per person. A vibrant and active IEEE organisation can assist us all to achieve life goals and enhance status of our profession no matter where we live and work.

I am really proud to be an IEEE member, a member of the biggest non-profit, technical professional association of more than 365,000 members in 150 countries. As you all know through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology, holds annually more than 300 major conferences and has more than 860 active standards with 700 under development. IEEE publishes 18 of the top 20 journals in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; 9 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications; 8 of top 20 journals in Computer Science & Software Engineering; and high-ranking journals in several additional fields of technology.

The IEEE vision to advance global prosperity, to foster technological innovation, to enable members’ careers and to promote worldwide community has captured our minds and our hearts. That is why we have joined IEEE. I hope that together we will be able to make this vision more real in the Asia Pacific Region.

Janina Mazierska

IEEE Region 10 Director (2007 - 2008)