Voting open for College Council elections
All eligible members are encouraged to cast their vote.
CGDent’s Council is the voice of its members, overseeing its role as a professional body and guiding the development of the College to fulfil its mission. Six regional seats are being elected this year, with elected candidates due to serve from June this year to June 2028. A ballot of eligible members is required for three of these seats: National, Overseas and South Thames.
All Full Members, Associate Fellows and Fellows of the College are eligible to vote in the election to either the National or Overseas seats (depending on the address they have registered with the College), and those registered within the South Thames region (formerly South East and South West Thames) are eligible to vote both in that election and for the National seat.
College Council elections employ the Alternative Vote (AV) system, under which eligible members rank candidates in order of preference. A candidate receiving over 50 per cent of first preference votes is elected. Otherwise the candidate with the fewest first preference votes is eliminated and their second preference votes are reallocated to the remaining candidates until one candidate has more votes than the other remaining candidates put together.
Please ensure that your membership of CGDent is up to date before you vote, otherwise your vote might not count. The CGDent member register displays a list of all current members. Alternatively, you can contact us at contact@cgdent.uk to confirm your membership status. If you do need to renew your membership, you can do this easily online here
New members joining during the voting period will also be eligible to vote, but should note that it will take around a week for their unique voting details to be issued to them, and late votes will not be counted.
The candidates are listed below; their election statements can be read via the email(s) from Mi Voice.
National seat
- Dr Irfan Ahmad FCGDent
- Dr Rana Al-Falaki FCGDent
- Dr Charlotte Jeavons FCGDent
- Dr Pejman Khaki FCGDent
- Dr Ioana Ruxandra FCGDent
- Dr Shruti Santosh Assoc.FCGDent
Overseas seat
- Prof Kelvin Afrashtehfar FCGDent
- Prof Alexander Holden FCGDent
- Prof Sreenivas Koka FCGDent
- Dr Eldo Koshy FCGDent
South Thames
- Dr Irfan Ahmad FCGDent
- Dr Esmail Harunani FCGDent
- Dr Pejman Khaki FCGDent
Following the election, the results will be announced in late May or early June.