Monica Freire, Congress Department Director of AIM Group International – Portugal, has been elected to the new Council of IAPCO (The International Association of Professional Congress Organisers).

The work of the Council, members of which have a 2-year term, is to administer the Association, to ensure that the quality standards as set are maintained, to serve the members and to guide IAPCO, with 118 company members across 41 countries, as the leading authority on professional congress organisation worldwide. Furthermore, the Council is responsible for ensuring that IAPCO fulfils its responsibilities in accordance with its statutes in a professional manner and operates in a business-like and is financially viable.

 Monica Freire joined AIM Group International in 2010 and has been heading the Congress Department in Lisbon since 2012. Starting her career in the congress industry in 2001, she has developed her skills as a congress and corporate events manager as a PCO and in the Pharma Industry., Monica is an active member of IAPCO, representing the Lisbon office in this Association, since 2010.