Nominations for membership on the Committee may be made by States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in accordance with Resolution 1985/17 of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of 28 May 1985. Members are elected for a term of four years by ECOSOC Member States.

Committee Members serve in their personal capacity and may be re-elected if nominated.

Additional information will be available from ECOSOC in due course, and a link to the site will be provided.

The term of service of half of the current Members of the Committee will expire on 31 December 2020. An election for those seats will take place on 15 April 2020 in New York, (ECOSOC).

Note by the Secretary General

Note by the Secretary General - Biographical information on the candidates nominated by States parties to the Covenant States Parties to the Covenant are invited to nominate their candidates by 16 December 2019 latest.

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Annexes
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The current Members of the Committee on Social Economic and Cultural Rights and their terms of office are (as of 1 January 2019):

Name	Nationality	Term expires
Mr. Aslan ABASHIDZE	Russian Federation	31.12.2022
Mr. Mohamed Ezzeldin ABDEL-MONEIM	Egypt	31.12.2020
Mr. Asraf Ally CAUNHYE	Mauritius	31.12.2022
Mr. Shiqiu CHEN (Vice-Chair)	China	31.12.2020
Ms. Laura-Maria CRACIUNEAN-TATU (Vice-Chair)	Romania	31.12.2020
Mr. Olivier DE SCHUTTER (Rapporteur)	Belgium	31.12.2022
Mr. Peters Sunday Omologbe EMUZE	Nigeria	31.12.2022
Mr. Zdzislaw KEDZIA	Poland	31.12.2020
Ms. Karla Vanessa LEMUS DE VÁSQUEZ	El Salvador	31.12.2022
Ms. Sandra LIEBENBERG (Vice-Chair)	South Africa	31.12.2020
Mr. Mikel MANCISIDOR	Spain	31.12.2020
Ms. Lydia Carmelita RAVENBERG	Suriname	31.12.2020
Mr. Waleed SADI *	Jordan	31.12.2020
Ms. Preeti SARAN	India	31.12.2022
Ms. Heisoo SHIN	Republic of Korea	31.12.2022
Mr. Rodrigo UPRIMNY	Colombia	31.12.2022
Mr. Michael WINDFUHR	Germany	31.12.2020
Mr. Renato ZERBINI RIBEIRO LEÃO (Chair)	Brazil	31.12.2022

* Until 7 October 2019

In accordance with ECOSOC Resolution 1985/17 (paragraph (b), in regard to the composition of the Committee, due consideration must be given to equitable geographical distribution and to the representation of different forms of social and legal systems.

Accordingly, seats on the Committee are allocated on the basis of regional groupings as follows.

Regional group	States parties as 21 September 2017	Total number of seats on the Committee	Number of seats open to election
African States	50	4	2
Asian States	40	4	2
Western Europe and Other States	27	3	2
Latin American and the Caribbean States	30	4	1
Eastern Europe States	23	3	2
TOTAL	170	18	9

CVs IN WORD (Maximun 1 and a half pages) should be sent in accordance to the attached format by State parties (E | F | S) in electronic version to cescr@ohchr.org.

Provisional list of candidates nominated by States Parties

Region	Names of candidates + CV	Nominated by
African States	Ms. Sandra LIEBENBERG Ms. Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah Diallo (WITHDRAWN) Mr. Mohamad Ezzeldine Abdel-Moneim Mr. Mohammed Amarti	South Africa Burkina Faso Egypt Morocco

Asian States	Mr. Seree Nonthasoot Mr. Shen Yongxiang	Thailand China

Western Europe and Other States	Mr. Michael Windfuhr Mr. Mikel Mancisidor E \| S Ms. Hilal Elver	Germany Spain Turkey

Latin American and the Caribbean States	Ms. Lydia Carmelita Ravenberg	Suriname

Eastern Europe States	Ms. Laura Maria Crăciunean –Tatu Mr. Nadir Adilov	Romania Azerbaijan