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1 June 2018

Mary Larkin elected as future UFI president

The UFI Board of Directors has elected Mary Larkin as President of UFI for 2020. The decision was made at the board meeting during the UFI European Conference in Verona (Italy) and becomes effective at the conclusion of the 85th UFI Global Congress, which runs from 31 October to 3 November 2018 in St. Petersburg.

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UFI’s presidential trio for 2018/19 (from left to right): Craig Newman, Corrado Peraboni and Mary Larkin – UFI’s incoming President.
The UFI presidential trio for the 2018/19 term will therefore comprise of: Craig Newman (Johannesburg Expo Centre, South Africa) - President 2018/19; Mary Larkin (Diversified Communications, Portland, USA) - Incoming President; and Corrado Peraboni (Fiera Milano, Italy) - Outgoing President.

As UFI’s incoming President, Mary Larkin will work closely with the incumbent President and outgoing President to make up the presidential trio, managing UFI at the highest level, and helping UFI continue on its path of global development. As Executive Vice President, Mary Larkin oversees Diversified Communication’s US operations as well as the international portfolio of seafood tradeshows, conferences and online reporting, including Seafood Expo Global (Brussels) and Seafood Expo North America (Boston), the industry’s leading events globally. She also oversees events in Asia (Hong Kong) and Diversified’s Integrative Healthcare and Wine portfolio.

Background

UFI was founded in 1925 as a non-profit, non-partisan international association, and today is the global association for the exhibitions industry, directly representing more than 50,000 exhibition industry professionals in almost 90 countries around the world. UFI operates four regional offices in addition to the headquarters in Paris. UFI's recent presidents were from Germany (Andreas Gruchow 2016/17), Russia (Sergey Alexeev 2015/16), Colombia (Andrés López-Valderrama 2014/15), France (Renaud Hamaide, 2013/14), and China (Xianjin Chen, 2012/13).

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