Dear FEHRL Members,

it is with great pleasure that I announce to you the recent election of Maria de Lurdes B. Costa Antunes as new FEHRL President, effective immediately. 

Also elected during the 40th General Assembly, held on 01/02 July in Zilina (Slovakia), was the new FEHRL Vice-President, Rini van Rootselaar. 

I am therefore please to share with you the new members of the Supervisory Board:  

• Maria de Lurdes B. Costa Antunes (LNEC - Portugal) – President
• Rini van Rootselaar (RWS - the Netherlands) – Vice President
• Marit Brandstegg (NPRA - Norway) (out-going FEHRL President)
• Audrius Vaitkus (VGTU - Lithuania)
• Stefan Strick (BASt - Germany)

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Also, during the 40th General Assembly, Agnès Jullien was elected as Chairwoman of the FEHRL Executive Committee (FEC).

The new composition of the new FEC members is as follows:

• Agnès Jullien (IFSTTAR - France) – Chairwoman
• Darko Kokot (ZAG - Slovenia)
• Anita Ihis (VTI - Sweden)
• Lutz Pinkofsky (BASt - Germany)
• Hans van Saan (RWS - the Netherlands)
• Gina Ytteborg (NPRA – Norway)

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Xavier Cocu (O.C.W./C.R.R. - Belgium) was elected as the new FEHRL Research Coordinators Chairman and Ursula Blume (BAST - Germany) as Vice-Chairwoman.

On behalf of the FEHRL Secretariat, I wish to thank out-going FEHRL President Marit Brandtsegg, out-going FEC Chairman Audrius Vaitkus, and out-going RC Chairman Manfred Haider, for their dedication and hard work towards FEHRL and its Members and Associates.

Thierry Goger,

FEHRL Secretary-General