Dileep Sanghani, Chairman of IFFCO, Elected as At-Large Director on International Cooperative Alliance Global Board

Key facts

• Dileep Sanghani, Chairman of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO), was elected as an At-Large Director to the Global Board of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) for the 2026-2030 term.
• Sixteen cooperators from 16 countries were elected to the ICA Global Board during the ICA's 2026 General Assembly held in Panama.
• A total of 116 voters representing 193 members from 66 countries attended the meeting, held during the ICA Global Conference week in Panama.
• The conference was held under the theme 'Building Bridges: Cooperative Contributions to a Peaceful World'.
• Sanghani, a trained lawyer associated with the cooperative movement for over four decades, is a former President of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) and played a key role in hosting the ICA Global Cooperative Conference and General Assembly in 2024 and the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives 2025 in New Delhi.
• A four-time Member of Parliament and former Cooperation Minister, Sanghani leads IFFCO's cooperative network of around 35,700 cooperatives representing more than 50 million farmers.
• Dr Ariel Guarco was elected unopposed as ICA President at the Panama Convention Centre on September 15, 2026, and 15 At-Large Directors were elected from 24 candidates, including 7 returning directors and 8 new members.
• The previous elective ICA General Assembly was held in Seville, Spain, in 2022, and the next one is scheduled before July 1, 2027.
• The 30-strong ICA Global Board also includes four Vice Presidents, one member from each of the eight Sectoral Organisations, the Youth Committee President and the Gender Equality Committee President, with Harsh Sanghani and Xiomara Nuñez de Céspedes joining after the Youth and Gender Equality Committee elections.