Since my last message in June, I’m happy to say that my nominations for department heads have now been approved at the September session of the CERN Council

The CERN Directors for 2026–2030 have now been appointed by the CERN Council at its June 2025 session. As well as announcing this team, I also want to outline the next steps to establish the wider CERN leadership team

The new CERN management structure, endorsed by the Council last week, is motivated by the Organization’s key priorities for the coming years

Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026

On 1 July 2023, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the LHCb experiment

The ATLAS collaboration at CERN welcomes a new management team at its helm. Spokesperson Andreas Hoecker (CERN) will continue to steer the experiment until February 2025

The new spokesperson, Patricia McBride, and two deputies, Wolfgang Adam and Lucia Silvestris, will represent the Collaboration for the next two years.

Enrica Porcari (Information Technology – IT) and Benoît Delille (Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Protection unit – HSE) bring our series to a close with their introduction messages

A new department Head, Katy Foraz (Engineering – EN) introduces herself to the CERN community in a video interview

Introducing two new Heads of Departments: Mar Capeans, (Site and Civil Engineering – SCE) and Brennan Goddard (Accelerator Systems – SY)