Structure and members

The Council's 54 member Governments are elected by the General Assembly for overlapping three-year terms. Seats on the Council are allotted based on geographical representation with fourteen allocated to African States, eleven to Asian States, six to Eastern European States, ten to Latin American and Caribbean States, and thirteen to Western European and other States.

Full list of members of the Economic and Social Council for 2007 and the expiration date of membership.

The Bureau of the Economic and Social Council is elected by the Council at large at the beginning of each annual session. The Bureau's main functions are to propose the agenda, draw up a programme of work and organize the session with the support of the United Nations Secretariat.

The members of the Bureau for 2007 are as follows:

Vice-President of ECOSOC: H. E. Ambassador Youcef Yousfi, ( Algeria )
Vice-President of ECOSOC: H. E. Ambassador Léo Mérorès ( Haiti )
Vice-President of ECOSOC: H. E. Ambassador Hjálmar W. Hannesson (Iceland)
President of ECOSOC: H. E . Ambassador Dalius Čekuolis (Lithuania)
Vice-President of ECOSOC: H. E. Ambassador Hilario G. Davide (Philippines)