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 […]
April’s Business Lunch with Cathy Nataf : “Exploring Planet Mars”
As a committee, proposed by Tim Hughes, we invited Cathy Nataf, professor at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 to talk to us about the history and developments concerning the exploration of planet Mars. Cathy’s talk was absolutely fascinating, putting into context the different projects to land on Mars (the Russians, for information, made 6 unsuccessful attempts), […]
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. […]
New Year Cocktail at Ligne Roset
This year’s NY Cocktail to celebrate 2019 was a little bit different. We organized the event at Ligne Roset, one of France’s best-known tailor-made furniture designers and retailers. Together with our good friends at the EACC, (European American Chamber of Commerce, the CEE6, Lyon business club in the 6th district, the DBCRA (Dutch, business club, featuring […]
Job Vacancy
A new job opportunity for a Business Development Officer, A2(L), (FRA19.023) has just arisen. This is a full-time position for a fixed term contract of 6 months. For further details on this vacancy and information on how to apply, please follow the link on the FCO Local Staff Vacancies Homepage. Application Deadline: 5th February 2019.