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ECPR Elects First Female Chair in its History!
On Saturday 14 April, following the Council elections of the previous day which saw seven new members of the Executive Committee elected (as well as one member re-elected), the new Executive Committee, in its first act,
elected Prof. Simona Piattoni to be Chair of the ECPR for the period 2012-2015. This is the first time in its forty three year history that the ECPR has elected a female Chair.
Simona said that she was deeply honoured to have been elected to this prestigious position and thanked the new Executive Committee for expressing its confidence in her.
She also thanked the outgoing Executive Committee which had originally elected her Chair-Designate, as well as the outgoing Chair, Luciano Bardi, and the Academic Director, Martin Bull, for their advice and support in the past few months.
She said that she would do everything she could in the coming three years to build on the achievements of previous Executive Committees as well exploring new possibilities and eventually laying down a road map for her successors to follow.
The new Members of the Executive Committee are: Rudy Andeweg, Universiteit Leiden; Klaus Goetz, Universität Potsdam; Olafur Hardarson, University of Iceland; Knud Jorgensen, Aarhus Universitet; Richard Katz, Johns Hopkins University; Pippa Norris, Harvard University; Manuel Sanchez de Dios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; and Luca Verzichelli, Università Degli Studi di Siena.
The new Executive Committee had a first introductory meeting in Antwerp, and will have its next meeting in Essex in June where it will meet all the staff at Central Services.
The outgoing Executive Committee received a formal vote of thanks from the ECPR Council. A smooth transition has been completed...
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