Blog post for JP (#149)

Author: odow

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+layout: post
+title:  "Steering Committee changes"
+date:   2024-07-30
+categories: [announcements]
+author: "Miles Lubin, Carleton Coffrin, Oscar Dowson, and Changhyun Kwon"
+---
+
+Recently, Juan Pablo Vielma notified the [JuMP Steering Committee](/pages/governance/#steering-committee)
+that he is stepping down (effective immediately) from his role on the Steering
+Committee.
+
+Juan Pablo was instrumental in the success of JuMP, supervising Miles Lubin and
+Joey Huchette as Ph.D. students at MIT. Juan Pablo helped organize the first
+three iterations of the JuMP-dev workshop: [JuMP-dev 2017](/meetings/mit2017/) at
+MIT, [JuMP-dev 2018](/meetings/bordeaux2018/) in Bordeaux, and [JuMP-dev 2019](/meetings/santiago2019/)
+in Santiago, Chile. More recently, Juan Pablo was a Principal Investigator of
+the [NSF funding](/announcements/2021/02/22/agreement/) that has funded the
+majority of JuMP maintenance over the last three years. In addition to his
+non-code contributions, Juan Pablo also ended up being the author of many of the
+early `BinaryBuilder` packages that enabled JuMP to distribute precompiled
+open-source binaries to users. Juan Pablo now works at Google, where he manages
+the team building [MathOpt](https://developers.google.com/optimization/math_opt),
+a new interface in OR-Tools that is heavily inspired by JuMP.
+
+Following our [Governance](/pages/governance) procedures, the remaining Steering
+Committee members have invited Julian Hall (@jajhall) to join the Steering
+Committee.
+
+Julian is the lead developer of [HiGHS](www.highs.dev), the world's fastest
+open-source MIP solver, and he is someone that the JuMP team have worked closely
+with over a number of years.
+
+Welcome Julian! We hope to share more information about our plans for closer
+collaboration between the JuMP and HiGHS teams in the near future.