The Annual Conference (2016) of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) was held in Jaipur recently. The Committee of Management of the Federation unanimously elected Kenya-based Jaswinder Bedi as the new President of the Federation. He would hold office for the next two years. Furthermore, the committee elected Kihak Sung (Korea Rep.) and Ruizhe SUN (China P R) as vice presidents and reconfirmed Peter Gnagi (Switzerland) as ITMF treasurer.

The committee also elected members of the non-executive board. The names are: Raffael Cervone (Brazil), John Cheh (Hong Kong, China), Muharrem Kayhan (Turkey), Andrew Macdonald (Brazil), Heinz Michel (Switzerland), B K Patodia (India), K V Srinivasan (India), Bassem Sultan (Egypt) and Loek de Vries (Netherlands). In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Federation during his six years service as ITMF Vice President (2010-14) and ITMF President (2014-16) Tiankai WANG (China PR) was appointed Honorary Life Member of the Federation.