The new Regional Board has been formed partly through appointments and partly by elections.

In order to ensure clear, transparent and fair elections, Hawkamah - The Institute for Corporate Governance was selected to be YAL’s partner and was assigned with the role of management of the nomination and the elections process. The first elections at YAL, held this year, have been organized as part of the YAL Leadership’s efforts to streamline the organization’s operations and to create independent and self sufficient chapters. This election has been held in two phases. The first phase concluded successfully, with the new Chapter Executive Boards being elected by their chapter members.

The election process for the YAL Regional BoD started with a Call-for-Nominations; open to all YAL members, followed by the announcement of names of nominees by the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance. This was followed by voting, by all new elected Chapter Executive Boards. As per the YAL Governance, four Directors were elected through this process and the YAL Chairman has appointed two Directors and one non-voting Director on the new Regional BoD. The newly elected Regional BoD will assume office as of the first Board Meeting Date, which will be announced shortly. They will serve till December 31, 2010. The names of the new Regional Board of Directors are