Triennial elections have recently concluded for the Mathematical Programming Society. The elected candidates are as follows:

• Chair: Philippe Toint (University of Namur)
• Treasurer: Juan Meza (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Council-Members-At-Large:
  • Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Claudia Sagastizábal (CEPEL, Electric Energy Research Center, Rio de Janeiro)
  • Martin Skutella (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Luís Nunes Vicente (Universidade de Coimbra)

The newly elected At-Large Council members will be installed at the 20th ISMP this summer, in Chicago, and will hold office August 2009 - August 2012. The new Chair and Treasurer take office in August 2010 and will serve for the following three years. The current Chair, Stephen Wright, will be Vice-Chair during the period August 2010 - August 2012. As is readily apparent, leadership of the Society will continue to be in very good hands.