Committee on International Activities

The 15-member Joint Board-Council Committee on International Activities (IAC) was established by action of the ACS Board of Directors on June 27, 1962 and was upgraded in 1974 to a joint Board-Council Committee. The IAC is responsible for studying and recommending appropriate SOCIETY participation and cooperation in international undertakings pertaining to chemical education, professional activities, and scientific matters of interest to chemists and chemical engineers, and coordinating its efforts with those of other organizations.

Mission

The mission of the Committee on International Activities is to assist scientists and engineers worldwide to communicate and collaborate for the good of the chemical and chemically related sciences, chemical engineering, and their practitioners.

Goals

The Committee on International Activities strives to:

• Work with academic, government, industrial and other organizations in the U.S. and abroad to foster international scientific exchange and collaboration, enable scientific progress, enhance social well-being, and promote economic development, worldwide
• Build strategic alliances abroad with professional societies representing scientists and engineers who practice in chemically related fields
• Champion the rights of scientists and engineers everywhere to participate in legitimate scientific activities and promote their human rights
• Increase the Committee’s interactions with ACS divisions and other units in order to expand members' awareness of the potential value of international experiences in our ever-shrinking world
• Support and enhance activities that project a positive image of chemistry, chemical engineering, and their practitioners worldwide
• Identify and promote opportunities to make the activities of the American Chemical Society attractive to all practitioners of chemistry, chemically related sciences and chemical engineering wherever they live

For more information, please e-mail the ACS Office of International Activities or visit the OIA website.