The 33rd IUPAP General Assembly has elected Silvina Ponce Dawson as the Union’s new President, for the term 2024-2027. She will take office on 1 January 2025.

“It is an incredible honor for me to occupy this position and I am very thankful to all of those who have deposited their trust and confidence in me. I will do my best to fulfill your expectations. 
I want to thank Bruce McKellar and Michel Spiro who approached me during the EC&CC meeting in London in 2019 when Kennedy Reed resigned as President to explore if I would be willing to become acting President Designate. This was completely unexpected for me. I was thrilled. I accepted and that was the beginning of a new and quite amazing part of my journey with IUPAP.
It has been five years since then. The Covid19 pandemic postponed everything and I became “actual” President Designate in 2021. During these five years I got to work together with many people, always in a very “flexible”, as Michel Spiro likes to say, and friendly atmosphere and I thank everybody for that.
These are very exciting times for IUPAP. We are seeking to define a rejuvenation plan, to increase its impact, to embrace new areas. Change is the condition of a living organism and yet there is an identity that persists.
This is how I like to see our Union, as a living organism, that changes, but keeps its identity intact. IUPAP as a river that flows retaining its identity and its strength.

I invite you all to sail together.”