An Israeli was elected to the position of Vice President of the International Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI)

Prof. Mina Teicher from Bar-Ilan University, and formerly the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology, was elected to the senior position in the organization, which was established 100 years ago (1908), and currently represents approximately one million mathematicians and mathematical education experts from all over the world

The General Assembly of the International Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI) elected Prof. Mina Teicher from Bar-Ilan University to the position of Vice President of the International Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI) at the beginning of the week in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. The union, which is a policy leader and the development of innovative teaching methods in the field, represents approximately one million members worldwide - mathematicians, experts in mathematical education, education policy makers and teachers, some of them also from countries without diplomatic relations with Israel. This is the first time that an Israeli has been elected to this senior position, since the organization was established in 1908 in Rome.

Prof. Mina Teicher, former Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Vice President for Research at Bar-Ilan University and member of the Wolf Foundation Council for the Advancement of Science and Art, is a world-renowned mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry with applications in brain research, computer vision and theoretical physics (the structure of the universe ). Prof. Teicher directs the Emi Neter Mathematics Research Institute and heads a research group of 27 postdoctoral and graduate students.

In her public roles, Prof. Teicher is a member of many committees and organizations and has served and serves on a long list of Israeli and international committees, among other things she is the head of the Education Committee of the European Union for Mathematics, a member of the scientific committee of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, a member of the Council of the Wolf Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Humanity, a member of the Supreme Steering Committee for Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Leadership of the International Women's Forum based in Washington. Mina Teicher received her doctorate from Tel Aviv University and she did her post-doctorate at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies in the USA.

Prof. Teicher has also won many prestigious awards including the Rothschild Fellowship, the Landau Prize, the Delek Prize, the Batsheva de Rothschild Prize and the Minerva Center and has even won Israeli and international grants such as the Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation and the Center of Excellence of the National Science Foundation, in grants from the European Union, in grants from the German government and more.