Our chapter congresses for the EMEA and LA Chapters roll round every two years, in between ICCNs, and this gives IFCN ExCo a chance to attend these at the same time as having our face-to-face meetings. The LA Congress will be in Mexico City in November, whilst the EMEA Congress has just finished in Marseille.

It was a great success, due in great part to our French Society under its enthusiastic chairperson Agnes Trebuchon. It had been delayed from 2021 due to Covid, but this just heightened people’s gratitude for a face to face congress and there were 800 attendees from 58 countries – many more note than in the EMEA Chapter. Held in a splendid conference centre largely underground on a promontory, it looked out to give amazing views of Marseille Vieux Port and the modern harbour stretching out below.