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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nLinda Alkire (SERVSIG Co-chair 2018-2022), Sertan Kabadayi (Co-chair 2020-2024), Kristina Heinonen (Co-chair 2022-2026), Harrison Pugh (Co-chair since 2024), Bart Larivi\u00e8re (Co-chair 2016-2020), Sven Tuzovic (incoming Co-chair)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, a huge thank you to Cristiana Raquel Costa Lages and Cl\u00e1udia Maria Neves Sim\u00f5es<\/strong> for hosting a wonderful SERVSIG 2026. Finally, thank you to all of the award committee members, and another huge congratulations to this years SERVSIG award recipients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I look forward to continue serving our community for years to come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Harrison B. Pugh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello SERVSIG Community, I would like to take a moment to thank Kristina Heinonen for all of the work she has done over the last four years of her tenure as SERVSIG Co-Chair. We were lucky enough to get the six SERVSIG co-chairs together at SERVSIG 2026 in Braga, including our incoming co-chair Sven Tuzovic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15612,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions\/15612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Relatedly, I would like to thank Driton Sahiti and his partners at the European University of Tirana and the Riinvest Institution for the work done in planning to bring SERVSIG 2028 to Tirana, Albania<\/a>. Driton\u2019s enthusiasm in bringing our conference to the Balkans is invigorating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n