February 2018

ECPR members elect new Executive Committee

The following candidates have been duly elected to the ECPR’s Executive Committee to serve the term 1 May 2018 – 30 April 2024:

Giliberto Capano, Università di Bologna
David Farrell, University College Dublin
Oddbjørn Knutsen, Universitetet i Oslo
Petra Meier, Universiteit Antwerpen
Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg
Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po Grenoble

Following the ECPR’s electoral rules, the election took place over three successive stages: nomination, endorsement and voting; and was presided over by Senior Returning Officer, Thomas Poguntke, University of Düsseldorf. A total of twelve eligible nominations were received for the six available places and then put forward to the endorsement stage. All twelve received sufficient endorsemets to go through to final voting. The six elected candidates will join the six ongoing members of the Executive Committee to serve under the Chairmanship of Kris Deschouwer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, for the next three years. The full Executive Committee for the term 2018–2021, will therefore be:

Giliberto Capano, Università di Bologna
Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow
Kris Deschouwer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
David Farrell, University College Dublin
Mary Farrell, Plymouth University, UK
Reuven Y. Hazan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oddbjørn Knutsen, Universitetet i Oslo
Petri Koikkalainen, University of Lapland
Petra Meier, Universiteit Antwerpen
Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg
Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po Grenoble
Anna M. Sroka, University of Warsaw