We are delighted to announce that Dr. Pascale Braconnot (France) has been appointed as Vice Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), where she joins Prof. Detlef Stammer (Germany) who remains Chair for the next two years. Pascale Braconnot has also been involved with WCRP for a long time, in CLIVAR, in the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (2002-2011), in the CLIVAR SSG, and as a member of the JSC since 2019.