“zwu002060353” — 2006/6/27 — page 661 — #1 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 2005 This report covers the period from 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2005. 1. Personnel The office of the EEA moved from CORE, Belgium, in January 2004, to the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick in the UK. The Secretary was formerly Henry Tulkens and is now Ian Walker until the end of 2007. The EEA office is now staffed only by Fiona Brown, a senior administrator in the Warwick Economics department, who works on EEA matters part-time. She has taken over from two part-time staff at CORE. Jim Saxton of Saxton IT Services has provided web design and support. The brief for the new secretariat has been to reduce EEA administrative costs at the same time as maintaining services and make the secretariat easily transfer- able for the future. We have implemented web-based membership administration and on-line payment facility. We have also now made the elections process web- based. These two tasks were previously labour-intensive. We expect that we will have substantially lowered running costs for the future in these two areas. 2. 2004 Elections The nominating committee for the 2004 election was composed of Jean Tirole (Chair), Richard Blundell, Isabel Correira, Mathias Dewatripont, Gilat Levy, Pedro Mira, Peter Neary, Torsten Persson, and Thomas Pikkety. Andreu Mas-Colell was elected Vice President from immediate effect and became President-Elect on 1 January 2005. He will become President of the EEA in 2006. Guido Tabellini was elected Vice-President for the Year 2005. He will become President-Elect in 2006 and President of the EEA in 2007. The newly elected members for the Council, for a term of office of five years starting 1 January 2005 are: Jacques Cremer, Raquel Fernandez, Rachel Griffith, Tullio Jappelli, Christopher Pissarides, Jaume Ventura, and Thierry Verdier. 3. Leaflet The leaflet introducing the EEA has been updated for the conference. Journal of the European Economic Association April-May 2006 4(2–3):661–665 © 2006 by the European Economic Association