 Hello I'm Sheila Rowan. After two years as president-elect I'm very much looking forward to becoming your president in October and I really hope that you will consider putting yourself forward to join me and others on IOP Council. I want the Institute of Physics to be a society that represents us all and I'm enthusiastic about making the way in which Council works more inclusive. We've worked hard over the last few years to improve the diversity of our trustees and we've made some good progress particularly in gender, location and physics specialism but we're on a journey and we've still got a way to go. It's my vision over the next two years to work to make sure the Institute fulfills its mission in advancing physics and physics education in a way that's truly for the benefit of all. So if you share this I sincerely hope you'll consider putting yourself forward to join me.