New Chair and Executive Committee take office

The Joint Sessions in Warsaw marked the end of the mandate of the 2012-15 Executive Committee, chaired by Simona Piattoni. Seven new members of the EC were elected by ECPR Council in an electronic ballot at the beginning of the year, and they will join the five continuing members to serve the 2015-18 term under the new Chair, Rudy Andeweg. Professor Andeweg said of his appointment:

‘On behalf of the whole ECPR ‘family’, I would like to thank Simona Piattoni for the leadership she has provided in the past three years. As her successor as ECPR Chair, I have come to appreciate even more the time and effort that she has invested, and the difficult decisions that she never shied away from. It will be a big challenge to step in her shoes, but together with the whole Executive Committee, and with the advice and support of Central Services in our new headquarters, Harbour House, I look forward to contributing to the further development of our Consortium.’

A full list of members of the current EC, along with their portfolios for the next three years can be found here.