Elections to the UFI Board of Directors are held under the observation of an external auditor and the mandate is issued for a period of three years. Sergey Georgievich will receive a mandate to the UFI Congress in Johannesburg, which will take place from 1 through 4 November 2017.

The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry is an association of the largest exhibition companies and exhibition centres throughout the world, as well as national exhibition associations. The UFI Board consists of 60 people and is elected by the General Assembly by vote. Every member of the Board of Directors has a voting right at all meetings of the Board. Full members of the association lay claim to seats on the Board. The candidate is obliged to be the actual head of a UFI member company during the election and re-election.

UFI unites 684 member-organisations in 239 cities in 85 countries on 6 continents. It shares the quality sign of over 827 exhibitions and displays organised by its members. In total, UFI members every year arrange over 4,500 specialised events that attract over 1,000,000 exhibitors and 150,000,000 visitors. The headquarters are in Paris.

We recall that the first Russian president of UFI was the Vice-president of ExpoForum-International, Sergey Alekseev, who guided the association from November 2015 through November 2016.