IAHS News
Change of Officers of IAHS
The election of Officers of IAHS and its 10 Commissions occurs every four years during the IUGG General Assembly. The most recent elections were held in Montréal in 2019. The offices are held for the period 2019-2023, except for the Presidents who were elected in 2019 and whose mandate is 2021-2025. In July 2021 the Presidents became Past-Presidents and the Presidents-Elect became Presidents.
Ordinarily the transition to new president will occur during the IAHS Scientific Assembly. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic the 2021 Scientific Assembly has been delayed until 2022 and therefore the transition was confirmed during the recent online IAHS Bureau meeting.
With immediate effect the new officers are as follows:
| IAHS | President | Berit Arheimer | Sweden |
| Past-President | Günter Blöschl | Austria | |
| ICCE | President | Paolo Porto | Italy |
| Past-President | Adrian Collins | UK | |
| ICCLAS | President | Richard Petrone | Canada |
| Past-President | Harald Kunstmann | Germany | |
| ICGW | President | Felipe de Barros | Brazil / USA |
| Past-President | Aldo Fiori | Italy | |
| ICRS | President | Amir AghaKouchak | Iran / USA |
| Past-President | Yangbo Chen | China | |
| ICSH | President | Elena Volpi | Italy |
| Past-President | Ashish Sharma | Australia | |
| ICSIH | President | Melody Sandells | UK |
| Past-President | Tobias Jonas | Switzerland | |
| ICSW | President | David Hannah | UK |
| Past-President | Gil Mahé | France | |
| ICT | President | Zhonghe Pang | China |
| Past-President | Christine Stumpp | Germany / Austria | |
| ICWQ | Co-President (2021-2023) | Elango Lakshmanan | India |
| Co-President (2023-2025) | Xiaohong Chen | China | |
| Past-President | Wouter Buytaert | Belgium / UK | |
| ICWRS | President | Barry Croke | Australia |
| Past-President | Andreas Schumann | Germany | |
| Panta Rhei | 5th Biennium Chair | Heidi Kreibich | Germany |
| 4th Biennium Chair | Fuqiang Tian | China |
We welcome the new Presidents to their post and look forward to an exciting time at IAHS as we celebrate 100 years since the founding of the Association in Rome in 1922, and to the IAHS 2022 Scientific Assembly in Montpellier, France with a focus on the Unsolved Problems in Hydrology initiative and the end of the decade of Panta Rhei.