Richard Samworth: 2025 IMS President-Elect

The 2025 IMS Council votes are counted and the results are in! We are pleased to announce that the incoming IMS President-elect is Richard Samworth. The new Executive Committee, for August 2025 to August 2026, will be comprised of: Kavita Ramanan (President); Tony Cai (Past President); Richard Samworth (President-elect); Annie Qu (Program Secretary); Jiashun Jin (Treasurer); and Peter Hoff (Executive Secretary). Leaving the Executive this year is former President Michael Kosorok.

Elected to the IMS Council are the following members: Alexandre Belloni, Tianxi Cai, Po-Ling Loh, Victor M. Panaretos, and Veronika Ročková. They will join Council members Philip A. Ernst, Martin Hairer, Igor Prünster, Jane-Ling Wang, and Ji Zhu (who have two more years to serve), and Sourav Chatterjee, Gábor Lugosi, Caroline Uhler, Huixia Judy Wang, and Linda Zhao (who will serve one more year). Rotating off the Council in August after their three-year terms are Siva Athreya, Rina Foygel Barber, Judith Rousseau, and Ryan Tibshirani.

You can view the profiles of the elected officials here.

The editors of the core IMS journals also serve as Council members. Currently, these are: Jian Ding & Claudio Landim (Annals of Applied Probability); Paul Bourgade & Julien Dubedat (Annals of Probability); Lexin Li (Annals of Applied Statistics); Hans-Georg Müller & Harrison Zhou (Annals of Statistics); and Moulinath Banerjee (Statistical Science).

All those elected this year will formally take up their new roles at the annual IMS business meeting, which will take place at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, in the Tuesday lunchtime slot (in the Omni Hotel, immediately following the Council meeting). Any IMS member is welcome to attend the business meeting.

Many thanks to all those who have served the Institute, those who are about to, those who stood for election, and every member who voted this year!