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According to the current Bylaws of the IEEE Communications Society, the Member Relations Council (MRC) addresses all activities and programs related to members, chapters, membership development, marketing, industry relations, sister and related societies, and Society regions. Chaired by the Vice-President for Member Relations, it also includes seven Directors, each chairing his/her own Board, viz. Marketing and Industry Relations, Membership Programs Development, Sister and Related Societies, and the four Regions (Asia Pacific; Europe, Africa, Middle East; Latin America; and North America). The seven Directors who have been serving in this term 2014-15, now approaching its end, are: •Director M&IR: Ashutosh Dutta, Columbia Univ., USA •Director MPD: Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin Univ., Japan •Director SRS: Curtis Siller, USA •AP Director: Wanjiun Liao, National Taiwan Univ., ROC •EAME Director: Hanna Bogucka, Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poland •LA Director: Pedro Aguilera, Switch Comunicaciones Ltda, Chile •NA Director: Merrily Hartmann, USA In 2015 the ComSoc Strategic Committee discussed and agreed on a thorough revision of the leadership organization of our Society, which was approved by the Board of Governors last June. Effective from 2016, the MRC has been renamed as the Member and Global Activities Council (MGAC) and reorganized along a slightly different structure. The focus of the MGA-C will be more specifically centered on member needs and interests. It will be chaired by the Vice President for Member and Global Activities (VP-MGA). The following appointed officers will report to the VP-MGA: Director for Member Services; Director for Sister and Related Societies; Director of Asia/Pacific Region; Director of Europe, Middle-East and Africa Region, Director of Latin America Region; Director of North America Region; Chair of the Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee.