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+title: "Announcing the New Rust Project Directors"
+author: Leadership Council
+team: Leadership Council <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/leadership-council>
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+We are happy to announce that we have completed the process to elect new Project Directors.
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+The new Project Directors are:
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+* [Scott McMurray](https://github.com/scottmcm)
+* [Jakob Degen](https://github.com/JakobDegen)
+* [Santiago Pastorino](https://github.com/spastorino)
+
+These will join [Ryan Levick] and [Mark Rousskov] to make up the five members of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors who represent the Rust Project.
+The board is made up Project Directors, who come from and represent the Rust Project, and Member Directors who represent the corporate members of the Rust Foundation.
+These groups of Directors each, as a block, have equal voting power.
+
+[Ryan Levick]: https://github.com/rylev
+[Mark Rousskov]: https://github.com/mark-simulacrum
+
+We look forward to working with and being represented by this new suite of project directors.
+We were fortunate to have a number of excellent candidates and this was a difficult decision.
+We wish to express our gratitude to all of the candidates who were considered for this role!
+We also extend our thanks to the project as a whole who participated by nominating candidates and providing additional feedback once the nominees were published.
+Finally, we want to share our appreciation for the [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] for working to design and facilitate running this election process.
+
+[pde-subcommittee]: https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/blob/main/committees/project-director-election-process.md
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+As with any decision like this, this was a challenging decision for a number of reasons.
+This was also our first time doing this process and we learned a lot to use to improve it going forward.
+The [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] will be following up with a retrospective outlining how well we achieved our goals with this process and making suggestions for future elections.
+We are expecting another election next year to start a rotating cadence of 2-year terms.
+Project governance is about iterating and refining over time.
+
+Once again, we thank all who were involved in this process and we are excited to welcome our new suite of Project Directors.