The EGU 2014 General Assembly, themed The Face of The Earth, saw a number of changing faces in the Union. During the meeting, Hans Thybo was inaugurated as EGU Vice-President, while Nicholas Arndt, Gerrit de Rooij and Hubert Savenije became the new chairs of the Outreach, Programme and Publications Committees, respectively.

Hans Thybo was elected as EGU President/Vice-President for the term 2014-2018 in the EGU Autumn 2013 elections. He will serve as Vice-President (President-Elect) for the first year, then as the Union President for the next two years and finally as Vice-President (Past-President) for the fourth year. At the same election, Mioara Mandea was re-elected as EGU General Secretary, a position she will hold for two years counting from the 2014 Plenary.

Nicholas Arndt, who is also the President of the Division on Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology, will serve as Outreach Committee Chair for a period of two years, renewable once. The Outreach Committee is in charge of coordinating EGU’s substantial outreach programme, aimed at promoting the Earth, planetary and space sciences beyond the scientific community.

Gerrit de Rooij, the President of the Hydrological Sciences Division, will be the Programme Committee Chair for the 2015 and 2016 General Assemblies. He has significant experience working behind the scenes at the EGU annual conference, with hydrology being one of the largest and most active programme groups, engaging substantially with young scientists.

Finally, Hubert Savenije, who is one of the executive editors for the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences journal, will be chairing the Publications Committee for three to six years. The EGU currently has a portfolio of 16 diverse scientific journals, which use an innovative peer-review format and are fully open access.

Another important change approved in Plenary, was the modification of the Union by-laws. The new version is now online on this website.

The EGU is grateful to Don Dingwell for his work during his term as EGU President/Vice-President, and to Niels Hovius, Gert-Jan Reichart and Ulrich Pöschl, former chairs of the Outreach, Programme and Publications Committees, respectively, for their enthusiasm and dedication to the Union and its activities.

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