While I thoroughly enjoyed many events this year, the Christmas lunch in 2019 gave me the most pleasure. When starting the role of President in March 2016, I had mentioned the importance of a team to continue or even enhance the great work of my predecessors. The committee team made...

November’s business lunch was certainly the most original of this year; Vivianne Perret, came to talk to us on the theme of “From spiritualism to spiritisme” A published author and radio journalist for RCF who recently wrote an autobiography about a police officer turned medium, Vivianne spoke about her experience...

October’s lunch was the opportunity for many FIBA members to hear Tim present his unique look at the issue that has dominated British politics and much else in the last 3,5 years. Earlier in the year, I was among the lucky few who attended a Lyinc dinner event when Tim...

Professor Colin McGuckinDoctor Patrick MehlenThis year’s cocktail combined Lyon’s excellence in the world of Cancer research, the fine work of one of our members, CTI Biotech, and the venue of one of our founder members offices, PwC at the Grand Hôtel Dieu. As a team, we deliberately wanted to place...

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...

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...

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