Steering Committee 

The Steering Committee is the body assisting Olympiad organizers and coordinating efforts for future Olympiads.

It can be contacted at sc@ichosc.org with general queries about the olympiad. Please make sure before writing that your questions are not answered on this page.

You may visit the IChO Information Center if you are interested in the problems and the history of the International Chemistry Olympiads. Past results can be found at http://www.icho-official.org/results/

Members of the Steering Committee for IChO 2024

Elected:

• Carlos Castro-Acuna, Mexico (2021, 2023)

• I-Jy Chang, Taiwan (2023)

• Clément Guibert, France (2022)

• JL Kiappes, UK/USA (2023), chair

• Ben Pilgrim, UK (2021, 2023)

• Yunus Emre Türkmen, Turkey (2022)

Ex officio:

• Petra Ménová, Czech Republic, past chair

• Patrik Willi, Switzerland (2023)

• Badr Al-Majrathi, Saudi Arabia (2024)

• Abdallah El Marhoune, UAE (2025)

• Turaboy Shermatov, Uzbekistan (2026)

Co-opted:

Future Olympiads

The participation fee for IChO is 3000 USD for one team as defined in the regulations. The sum was set by the International Jury and is effective from the 51st IChO. 

• 2024 July 21-31, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• 2025, United Arab Emirates

• 2026, Uzbekistan

Past Olympiads

• 2023 July 16-25, Zürich, Switzerland

• 2022 July 10-18, Tianjin, China (Remote theory)

• 2021 July 24 - August 2, Osaka, Japan (Remote theory)

• 2020 July 23-30, Istanbul, Turkey (Remote theory)

• 2019 July 21-30, Paris, France

• 2018 July 19-29, Bratislava and Prague, Slovakia and the Czech Republic

• 2017 July 6-15, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

• 2016 July 23–August 1st, Tbilisi, Georgia

• 2015 July 20-29, Baku, Azerbaijan

• 2014 July 21-29, Hanoi, Vietnam

• 2013 July 15-24, Moscow, Russia

• 2012 July 21-30, Washington DC, USA

• 2011 July 9-18, Ankara, Turkey

• 2010 July 19-28, Tokyo, Japan

• 2009 July 18-27, Cambridge, UK

• 2008 July 12-21, Budapest, Hungary