For the next three years Gerald B?se, chairman of the board of Koelnmesse GmbH, will chair the European Chapter of UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. B?se’s term of office begins at the next UFI congress, which takes place in Bogotá at the end of October. His appointment as chairman of the European Chapter automatically makes him a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the UFI, involving him at superregional level in the further development of the association and the international trade fair sector. B?se will join newly-elected UFI Chapter chairs Juan Pablo Maglier from La Rural, Buenos Aires for Latin America andAbdullah Al Omran from Riyadh for the Middle East and Africa. Adsale’s Stanley Chuhas been re-elected as chairman of the Asia/Pacific Chapter.