The board of directors of the World Diamond Council has approved the
appointment of Jacky Roth to its membership. of Roth, a veteran diamond
industry leader from Belgium, was proposed by the presidents of all four Belgian
diamond exchanges and by WDC president Eli Izhakoff.
 
Roth started in the Antwerp diamond industry in 1979 when he was first elected
to the board of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse, and he’s held various posts at the
diamond exchange and at the Federation of Belgian Diamond Bourses. In 1982, he
was elected a board member of HRD (Diamond High Council), which was
restructured into the Antwerp World Diamond Center in 2006. He was elected its
president in 2004.

JCK