The new WCC executive committee, elected at the 9th Assembly in February 2006, is made up of the following central committee members:

AFRICA

Dr Agnes Abuom, Anglican Church of Kenya
Bishop Ivan Manuel Abrahams, Methodist Church of Southern Africa (South Africa)
Pastor Antonio Pedro Malungo, Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola
Ms Iyabo Oyekola, Church of the Lord Aladura Worldwide (Nigeria)

ASIA

Rev. Dr Margaretha M. Hendriks-Ririmasse, Protestant Church in the Moluccas (Indonesia)
Ms Hae-Sun Jung, Korean Methodist Church
Bishop Samuel R. Azariah, Church of Pakistan

CARIBBEAN

Ms Nerissa Celestine, Church in the Province of the West Indies (Grenada)

EUROPE

Bischof Dr Rolf Koppe, Evangelical Church in Germany
Ms Inger Aasa-Marklund, Church of Sweden
Mr Graham G. McGeoch, Church of Scotland

LATIN AMERICA

Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil

NORTH AMERICA

Ms Carmen Rae Lansdowne, United Church of Canada
Rev. Dr Tyrone Pitts, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. (USA)
Rev. Dr Larry Pickens, United Methodist Church (USA)

PACIFIC

Rev. Sanele Faasua Lavatai, Methodist Church of Samoa

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES

Metropolitan Prof. Dr Gennadios of Sassima, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Bishop Dr Hilarion of Vienna and Austria (Alfeyev), Russian Orthodox Church
Archbishop Nifon of Targoviste, Romanian Orthodox Church
Bishop Dr Vasilios of Trimithus (Karayiannis), Church of Cyprus
Ms Outi Vasko, Orthodox Church of Finland

ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES

Metropolitan Bishoy, Coptic Orthodox Church (Egypt)
Bishop Vicken Aykazian, Armenian Apostolic Church (Holy See of Etchmiadzin) (USA)


The moderators of the programme and finance committees of the central committee, who are also members of the executive committee, will be elected at the first full meeting of the central committee in September 2006.