APPENDIX TO ITEM 6.4
Nomination for Honorary President of FIG
Professor Peter Dale OBE
It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the RICS, to nominate Professor
Peter Dale OBE as an Honorary President of FIG. The Institution feels that this
would be an appropriate recognition of Peter's enormous contribution to FIG and
to the surveying profession internationally.
In his eight years as a member of the FIG Bureau, first as a vice-president
in the Australian Bureau and then as President in the UK Bureau, Peter's vision
and his skills in making things happen have had a profound impact on FIG.
Building on the work of the Finnish Bureau, Peter on his retirement as President
leaves FIG a very different organisation than it was 10 years ago. FIG now has a
much clearer sense of purpose; is recognised and respected as a professional
partner by UN agencies and the World Bank; and has a much stronger leadership
team through his work in building ACCO (initially ICAC). In latter years, Peter
has built on the success of ACCO to start the process of empowering the member
associations of FIG, working with Presidents of Member Associations and having
contact with very many individual members during his travels.
Peter led the Task Force on the desirability of establishing a permanent
secretariat for FIG, whose recommendations were accepted by the PC meeting in
Berlin in 1995 and which led, at the beginning of 1999, to the opening of the
FIG Office in Copenhagen - a tremendous development for the future of FIG as a
truly international professional organisation. He also developed FIG's links
with allied professional organisations, again building the international
standing and recognition of FIG.
The strapline of the UK Bureau was 'developing the profession in a developing
world'. This was far more than words for Peter - his concern for the less
fortunate motivated all that he did and does. Under his leadership, FIG achieved
much in supporting surveyors and economies in less developed countries and those
in transition.
Peter would be the first to point out that he could have achieved little by
himself. But his passion, his vision, his oratory and his personality inspired
many, many people to work for the development of FIG and the surveying
profession. He was - and remains - an exemplary ambassador for the profession.
Iain Greenway
Head of the RICS Delegation to FIG
Iain Greenway
Head of the RICS Delegation to FIG
30 December 1999
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