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IOC ELECTS EIGHT NEW MEMBERSOn 15 September, the IOC elected eight new Members, as well as a new Vice-President and three new members of its Executive Board (EB), during the IOC Session in Lima.Anita L. DeFrantz (USA), who joined the IOC in 1986, was elected as an IOC Vice-President. She previously occupied this position from 1997 to 2001. Robin E. Mitchell, IOC Member in Fiji, Nicole Hoevertsz, IOC Member in Aruba, and Denis Oswald, IOC Member in Switzerland, were chosen by the Session to join the IOC EB for a four-year term.The IOC Session also elected eight new Members, who were proposed by the EB in August: Baklai Temengil (PLW), Kristin Kloster Aasen (NOR), Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul (THA), Luis Mejia Oviedo (DOM), Neven Iván Ilic Álvarez (CHI), Khalid Muhammad Al Zubair (OMA), Jean-Christophe Rolland (FRA) and Ingmar De Vos (BEL). In addition, on the same day, the IOC elected Milan (Italy) as the host city of the IOC Session 2019. The decision was taken following an Evaluation Commission visit to the city on 23 and 24 May 2017, a report to the Session by the commission, and a presentation by the Milan bid team. The commission was composed of IOC EB members Ser Miang Ng and Willi Kaltschmitt Luján.On 14 September, the IOC and the Dow Chemical Company, a Worldwide Olympic Partner, announced that Dow has become the Official Carbon Partner of the IOC. In line with Olympic Agenda 2020, which has sustainability as one of its three key pillars, the partnership will deliver an innovative global carbon mitigation programme to compensate for carbon emissions from the IOC’s daily operations, as well as other projects to be identified within the Olympic Movement. The programme will run until 2020, and builds on successful carbon mitigation programmes by Dow and the Organising Committees of the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 and Olympic Games Rio 2016.“In addition to being an important element in achieving key objectives of the IOC’s sustainability strategy, our partnership with Dow will raise awareness and provide education on this important topic, alter existing business operations, and create sustainable legacies,” said IOC President Thomas Bach.IOC NAMES DOW AS OFFICIAL CARBON PARTNERAbove President Bach with the new Members at the IOC Session in LimaAbove Dow implemented a successful carbon mitigation programme at Rio 2016OLYMPIC REVIEW 13