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Keywords: Report of the Executive Committee . <h2> 1. Meetings</h2> The IUCr sponsored the following meetings held during 2009: Second African School and Workshop on X-rays in Materials: Some Established Techniques and Practical Applications, Dakar, Senegal, 19-26 January. Role of Synchrotron Radiation in the Advancement of Materials, Red Sea, Egypt, 1-5 February. II Latin-American Symposium on Polymorphism and Crystallization of Drug and Pharmaceutical Products (LAPOLC 2009), Estância de São Pedro, Brazil, 9-11 March. XII Intensive Course on X-ray Structure Analysis, Durham, UK, 28 March - 6 April. RapiData 2009, Brookhaven, USA, 19-24 April. Second International School on Biological Crystallization and International School on Crystallization: Drugs, Foods and Agrochemicals, Granada, Spain, 18-22 and 25-29 May. High-Pressure Crystallography: From Novel Experimental Approaches to Applications in Cutting-Edge Technologies, Erice, Italy, 4-14 June. Symposium R on X-ray Techniques for Advanced Materials, Nanostructures and Thin Films - from Laboratory Sources to Synchrotron Radiation, Strasbourg, France, 8-12 June. 2nd School and Workshop on X-ray Micro- and Nanoprobes, Palinuro, Italy, 11-19 June. ICCOSS XIX (International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State), Genoa, Italy, 14-19 June. Crystallography Online: International School on the Use and Applications of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server, Zarauz, Spain, 21-27