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October 2007

Commemoration of IVI's 10th anniversary

May 2007

Start of construction of Biosafety Level 3+; Launch of projects to introduce vaccines for children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

January 2007

IVI Director-General starts a term of three years as a member of the GAVI Alliance Board to represent technical partners at the Alliance

July 2006

Launch of the Cholera Vaccine Initiative (CHOVI) with a $22 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

May 2006

Mrs. Nane Annan, the wife of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, visits IVI
April 2006

IVI Board elects Prof. Ragnar Norrby new Chairman
October 2005

Eighth Anniversary ceremony held in the presence of the ROK First Lady Kwon Yang-suk. IVI Signatories increase to 37
October 2004 President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea inaugurates the IVI Headquarters Building
September 2004 Kwon Yang-suk, First Lady of Korea, becomes the Honorary President of the Korea Support Committee for the IVI.
July 2003 Launch of the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) with a $55 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
June 2003 Convenes the IVI Inauguration Symposium, and Board of Trustees meeting; BOT elects Dr. Samuel Katz as its new chairman.
June 2003 Opening of the new headquarters building, generously donated by the Government of Korea.
January 2003 IVI's staff size exceeds 50, and the number of donors increases to more than 20.
March 2002 Board of Trustees meet with Kim Dae-jung, president of the Republic of Korea, at the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae.
March 2001 IVI's staff size exceeds 30 for the first time and its annual budget grows to more than $10 million. The number of donors grows to more than 10.
January 2000 Launch of the Disease of the Most Impoverished(DOMI) Program with a grant of $40 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
April 1999 The Board of Trustees appoints Dr. John Clemens as the first Director of the Institute.
January 1999 National Assembly of the Republic of Korea ratifies Headquarters Agreement bringing it into full effect.
September 1998 Headquarters Agreement between the Institute and the Republic of Korea signed at UNDP in New York.
October 1997 Inaugural meetings of the Governing Board of Trustees and the Institute Support Council convene in Seoul. The Board approves the first Strategic Plan for development of the Institute.
May 1997 Establishment Agreement goes into effect after receiving 3 ratifications.
May 1996 UNDP and the Republic of Korea propose the texts of the Establishment Agreement and the attached Constitution of the Institute.
October 1996 The Institute's Establishment Agreement is opened for signatures at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
1995-1996 UNDP and the Republic of Korea jointly develop the basic framework for the formal establishment of the Institute as an international organization.
May 1995 First consultative meeting of collaborating partner institutions from Asia-Pacific countries at the Institute's office in Seoul.
April 1995 First meeting of the Advisory Board of Trustees at UNDP headquarters in New York.
January 1995 UNDP opens an interim office of the Institute on the campus of Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
December 1994 The Board Nominations Committee receives about 90 nominations from more than 30 countries, and eventually recommends an eleven-member Advisory Board of Trustees, to guide UNDP in the early phases of he Institute's operation.
October 1994 UNDP names a Board Nominations Committee to make recommendations regarding an interim Board of Trustees for the Institute.
September 1994 The Administrator of UNDP and the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations exchange letters confirming the designation of the Republic of Korea as the host country of the Institute.
June 1994
 The Site Selection Committee, meeting at UNDP, recommends that the Institute be located in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, and that the Institute carry out its activities through close partnerships with centers of excellence in other countries in the region.
May 1994 The Site Selection Committee, following initial review of the proposals, visits 3 short-listed countries.
March 1994 Six Asian countries submit proposals to UNDP to host the Institute.
December 1993 Site Selection Committee is named by UNDP and charged with selecting the host country of the Institute.
November 1993

 The UNDP proposal is approved by the CVI Consultative Group as part of hte CVI Strategic Plan.
September 1993 Based on the feasibility study, a formal proposal to establish the International Vaccine Institute in a developing country in Asia is adopted by UNDP.
March 1993 Concept for an "international vaccine institute" presented to the Management Advisory Committee of CVI.
October 1992 UNDP starts feasibility study for an international center devoted to vaccine research and development and providing technical assistance to the developing world.
September 1990 World Summit on Children at the United Nations adopts a declaration calling for concerted international action to promote children's health in developing countries, eventually leading to the reation of the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI).