While I thoroughly enjoyed many events this year, the Christmas lunch in 2019 gave me the most pleasure. When starting the role of President in March 2016, I had mentioned the importance of a team to continue or even enhance the great work of my predecessors. The committee team made the whole event – Rachel, Zoe and […]
November business lunch
November’s business lunch was certainly the most original of this year; Vivianne Perret, came to talk to us on the theme of “From spiritualism to spiritisme” A published author and radio journalist for RCF who recently wrote an autobiography about a police officer turned medium, Vivianne spoke about her experience of interviewing those who claim […]
October Business lunch
October’s lunch was the opportunity for many FIBA members to hear Tim present his unique look at the issue that has dominated British politics and much else in the last 3,5 years. Earlier in the year, I was among the lucky few who attended a Lyinc dinner event when Tim entertained the audience with a […]
Exploding the myths of European Union product development.
On Friday 17th May, our guest speaker was Arnaud Lamy. Arnaud is Research & Development director for Application des Gaz, owner and distributor of brands including Campingaz, Coleman (planchas & barbecues), Sevylor, Marmot, which is part of the Newell Brands group. Arnaud’s presentation focused on exploding the myths of European Union product development. This wasn’t […]
March Business Lunch “The Expatriate’s Financial journey”
March’s business lunch featured a presentation from one of our more recent members, Alan Watson, entitled “The Expatriate’s Financial journey”. Alan has a truly international background, born and brought up in the UK, whose work experience has covered EMEA over 30 years or so, covering Holland, Germany, France as well as Bahrain, Saudi and Dubai. […]