CERN Council selects next Director-General

Geneva, 4 November 2014. At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization's next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of Council, and Dr Gianotti's mandate will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years. Council rapidly converged in favour of Dr Gianotti. "We were extremely impressed with all three candidates put forward by the search committee," said President of Council Agnieszka Zalewska. "It was Dr Gianotti's vision for CERN's future as a world leading accelerator laboratory, coupled with her in-depth knowledge of both CERN and the field of experimental particle physics that led us to this outcome. I would like to thank all the candidates for giving Council such a hard decision to make, and the search committee for all its hard work over recent months." "Fabiola Gianotti is an excellent choice to be my successor," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
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