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ROBIN LOKERMAN, President Asia/Pacific, CEO Institutional Division, MCI

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Robin Lokerman holds a Masters Degree in Management Science from Boston University Brussels. In 1991 he founded GIC Management, which became Europe’s leading full service association management company. The company merged with MCI in August 2003, and today MCI is the foremost global Association, Communications and Event Management Group, with close to 800 professional staff working in 32 offices throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Robin is one of four members of the MCI Executive Committee and responsible for the Institutional Division, serving associations and governments. MCI is one of the few companies outside North America, which are accredited by the AMC Institute.

Today Robin is responsible for strategic & business development of MCI’s services to association and government markets. He also leads the development of MCI in Asia, as President MCI Asia Pacific and relocated to Singapore in September 2007.

Robin frequently consults associations on their strategic planning, board assessment and international development strategies and is a frequent speaker at business events around the world. He was course leader for the first European Masters-degree course on Meetings Management at IMHI in Paris, a joint venture of the French business school Groupe ESSEC and Cornell University School for Hospitality Management.

Robin was honored with the 2005 Planner of the Year award, by the MPI Belgian Chapter and the 2006 International Meetings Industry Person of the Year at AIME Melbourne. Robin has served on the MPI Foundation Board of Trustees and is the first non-US member of the Board of Directors of the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership and currently is Chairman-Elect of The Center for Association Leadership.