Prof. Dr. Rudolf Staiger was elected President at the General Assembly in May 2018

 Get to know Rudolf...

Read interview with Rudolf Staiger in GIM Magazine January 2019  Read more.

The General Assembly 2021 will take place virtually in June 2021. Further information will be sent out to all members. The General Assembly 2020 was postponed to 2021 so at the General Assembly 2021 there will be agenda items from both 2020 and 2021 incl. elections for

• Two Vice Presidents
• Chairs Elects for the ten Commissions
• Venue for FIG Working Week 2025

Council Work Plan for the term 2019-2022.

FIG has five different levels of membership and two levels of honorary membership. Through different membership categories 121 countries are represented in FIG. The membership categories are:

- Member Associations
- Affiliates
- Corporate Members
- Academic Members
- Correspondents
- Honorary Presidents
- Honorary Members

Members

FIG publishes each month the FIG Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors.

The Article of the Month January is written by  Ryan Keenan et al. A Global Survey of Reference Frame Competency in terms of Education, Training and Capacity Building (ETCB): Results, Analysis and Update This paper presents the results of a survey, and offers a brief analysis of the findings, outlines a summary of the issues and identifies a number of follow-on tasks for the UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy Read more...