GOVERNANCE
The General Assembly – the highest decision-making body of the WSCF – is the most representative expression of the WSCF’s life where the different members and representatives from all corners of the world have the chance to come together to talk about issues important to their activities and to direct the work of the Federation for the next four years. The mandate of the General Assembly will be fulfilled by the elected Executive Committee. The Federation is governed by its Constitution and Bye-Laws ratified and amended as needed by the General Assembly.
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The New Global Officers of the Federation
The Credential Committee verified and validated the election process that elects the new WSCF leadership for the next quadrennium. The simple majority based on the 50% + 1 of the voting members (official Representatives + ExCo members + Officers) who attended the voting process was reached at 38 votes as 75 voting members attended the V-GA.
We welcome our new Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons, and Honorary Treasurer.
The Extraordinary Virtual General Assembly also welcomes the ExCo appointment of Marcelo Leites as WSCF General Secretary for the next quadrennium and receives the new ExCo representatives.
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| Elected WSCF Officers for the quadrennium, 2021 to 2025 | |
| Chairperson | Geevarghese Mor Coorilos |
| Co-Vice-Chairpersons | Ramy Farouk Mahrous Sarofim Hanna Pavlina Manavska |
| Honorary Treasurer | Ebere Ubesie |
George CoorilosAsia-Pacific
Ramy HannaMiddle East
Pavlina ManavskaEurope
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WSCF General Secretary
Marcelo David Leites Martinez
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
"WSCF has not only been my Christian, ecumenical and political activist place, it was also the space where I grew up surrounded by friends in the same mission. But primarily, WSCF has been the space where my faith was healed and restored. And for that, I will always be grateful.
"WSCF (also) means to be a community. It is in the community where experiences, resistances and good practices can promote transformation; where the analysis of the bible can dialogue with “otherness”; also where transformative praxis echoes, welcoming the other - the refugee, the poor, the one who suffers. And finally, it is in this community, historically avant-garde, where leaders can be formed for the service of the Oikoumene."
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Download memo: ENG SPA FRA
Date: March 29th 2021
To: WSCF Affiliated and Associated member movements, WSCF General Assembly Delegates, Executive Committee and Regional Committees, WSCF regional secretaries
Re: Extraordinary Virtual General Assembly Announcement and Approval
From: Marcelo Leites – General Secretary WSCF
Dear friends, brothers and sisters
Greetings from the World Student Christian Federation.
The purpose of this letter is to announce an Extraordinary General Assembly that will be held online. This Assembly will not substitute the in-person General Assembly (GA) that will be held in 2022, which was already announced in a previous statement.
The WSCF Executive Committee has decided to hold the Online Extraordinary General Assembly (V-GA) between July 29 and July 31, 2021.
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Date: February 04, 2021
To: WSCF Affiliated and Associated member movements, WSCF General Assembly Delegates, Executive Committee and Regional Committees
Re: WSCF 37th GA Postponement Announcement
From: Marcelo Leites – General Secretary WSCF
Dear WSCF Friends,
Greetings from the World Student Christian Federation,
I hope this message finds you and your movements safe and healthy,
The WSCF General Assembly (GA) is the most representative and highest-decision making body of the Federation. As a rule it meets every four years or within a period of six years in case of extraordinary circumstances in order to bring together the Federation’s 108 associated and affiliated member movements from 94 countries.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the WSCF Executive Committee (ExCo) decided in December 2020 to postpone the in-person General Assembly that was to be hosted in Berlin in June 2021 to a new date in 2022 maintaining Berlin as the host city.
Marcelo LeitesThe World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) is pleased to announce and introduce Mr. Marcelo Leites from Uruguay as the in-coming General Secretary of WSCF. This decision was made by the WSCF Executive Committee following more than a year of search process which began in October 2019 and was completed last November 2020. As the in-coming General Secretary, Marcelo Leites, will be presented by the Executive Committee to the member movements in the forthcoming WSCF General Assembly (GA) for approval.
Marcelo David Leites comes from a long history of involvement with the Student Christian Movements (SCMs) in Uruguay and WSCF LAC. He currently works as WSCF’s Regional Executive formerly called Regional Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from 2012 and Director for WSCF’s Global Program on Ecological Justice since 2016. Prior to this, Marcelo was a member of the Student Christian Movement of Uruguay from 2005 to 2011. He worked as a Social Educator, Campaigner and Accompanier for youth-related programs and projects in Montevideo, Uruguay before joining WSCF as the interim regional secretary for LAC in 2011.
Profile
Marcelo David Leites Martinez
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- Latin America and the Caribbean, male, staff, thirty-five years old
- Studied Philosophy and Social Work at the University of Uruguay
- Regional Secretary for WSCF Latin America and the Caribbean from 2013 to 2020
- Moderator for the WSCF Eco-Justice (Economy, Ecology and Ecumenism) Programme from 2016 to 2020
- Actively involved in popular education work in communities, work and meetings on faith and politics which led to the publication of “Between Faith and Politics: The Path of Christian Witness in Uruguay”
- Member of the International Youth Committee of the Global Youth Interfaith Network of Religions for Peace from 2013 to 2019
- Member of the SCM of Uruguay since 2005 and occupied various leadership positions
