K.R. Sreenivasan begins his tenure as ICTP director Monday 3 March. He will spend his first week in a series of 'get-acquainted' meetings with the heads of the Centre's research groups and administrative units. In addition to his position as director, Sreenivasan has been named the Abdus Salam Honorary Professor of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. The professorship, named after ICTP's founding director, is designed to recognise Sreenivasan's outstanding qualifications as a high-level scientist in the fields of statistical and nonlinear mechanics, turbulence, and the physics of fluids, as well as his intention to continue his own active research programme while serving as director.