Announcing the 2025 Steering Committee Election Results

Announcing the 2025 Steering Committee Election Results Results Big thanks! Get involved with the Steering Committee The 2025 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2025. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community. The Steering Committee oversees the governance of the entire Kubernetes project. With that great power comes great responsibility. You can learn more about the steering committee’s role in their charter. Thank you to everyone who voted in the election; your participation helps support the community’s continued health and success. Congratulations to the elected committee members whose two year terms begin immediately (listed in alphabetical order by GitHub handle): Kat Cosgrove ( @katcosgrove ), Minimus Paco Xu ( @pacoxu ), DaoCloud Rita Zhang ( @ritazh ), Microsoft Maciej Szulik ( @soltysh ), Defense Unicorns They join continuing members: Antonio Ojea ( @aojea ), Google Benjamin Elder ( @BenTheElder ), Google Sascha Grunert ( @saschagrunert ), Red Hat Maciej Szulik and Paco Xu are returning Steering Committee Members. Thank you and congratulations on a successful election to this round’s election officers: Christoph Blecker ( @cblecker ) Nina Polshakova ( @npolshakova ) Sreeram Venkitesh ( @sreeram-venkitesh ) Thanks to the Emeritus Steering Committee Members. Your service is appreciated by the community: Stephen Augustus ( @justaugustus ), Bloomberg Patrick Ohly ( @pohly ), Intel And thank you to all the candidates who came forward to run for election. This governing body, like all of Kubernetes, is open to all. You can follow along with Steering Committee meeting notes and weigh in by filing an issue or creating a PR against their repo.