During the last board meeting of the Association for Political History in Stockholm on 13 June 2024, Pasi Ihalainen was elected as the new president of the APH. Also three new universities joined the APH, the University of Gdansk (Prof. Dr. Barbara Klassa), Charles University Prague (Dr. Jaroslav Valkoun) and the University of Helsinki (Prof. Dr. Juhana Aunesluoma and Prof. Dr. Johanna Rainio-Niemi).

In Stockholm Henk te Velde, one of the founders of the APH, stepped down as president. The Research School Political History thanks him for his great efforts for the APH during a decade. Is was also decided that Margit van der Steen is the new treasurer of the APH. Lauren Lauret is secretary of the APH.

The new president Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, concentrating on the history of political discourse in the long term and from comparative and transnational perspectives. Currently, as an Academy of Finland Professor, he studies the history of representative democracy and especially tensions between parliament and the people between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.