The International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA) has announced that ICA President Benjamin Hackman was re-elected for a second two-year term, while the ICA's two Vice-Presidents are Damien Cody and Santpal Sinchawala following the first meeting of the organisation’s new Board of Directors that was constituted at the 2015 Congress.

Additionally, Philippe Scordia, Gamini Zoysa, and Ehud Harel were elected Secretaries and Marcelo Ribeiro Fernandes as Treasurer. The seven office bearers together constitute the Executive Board.

Some current members of the Board of Directors were re-elected while a few were newly elected.

Directors continuing their terms are: Ehud Harel from Israel, Duncan McLauchlan from the UK, Xianjin Yu from China, Bruce Bridges from the USA, Philippe Scordia from France, Nirmal Kumar Bardiya from India, Vijay Kedia from India, Shirley Zhang from Hong Kong, Rakesh Jain from Hong Kong, Marcelo Ribeiro Fernandes from Brazil, Pavel Sokolov from Russia, Gamini Zoysa from Sri Lanka.

The newly elected board members are: Gabriel Angarita from Colombia, Stephan Reif from Austria, Alice Muthama from Kenya, Warren Boyd from Canada, Jeffrey Bilgore from the USA, Suttipong Dramrongsakul from Thailand, Captain Ramji Sharma and Mazaru Mizumura from Japan.

Immediate past president Wilson Yuen from China has been retained on the board along with special advisors Jean Claude Michelou, directing ICA communications and Ambassadors, Clement Sabbagh, directing the ICA Congress, and Noburyuki Horiuchi, overseeing implementation of the ICA's disclosure codes.

At the Congress, the following directors stepped down after completing their term: Susie Kennedy from Tanzania, Vice President Jean Claude Michelou from Colombia, Phuket Khunaprapakorn from Thailand, Fujio Takada from Japan, and Sushil Goyal from the USA.