Barbara Weizsäcker

Secretary General

Biography:: Barbara Weizsäcker has joined EMECA, the European Major Exhibition Centres Association, in 2012 as Secretary General and also acts as Secretary General for the European Exhibition Industry Alliance, EEIA, in Brussels (Belgium). She is also Board Member (Treasurer) of the Joint Meeting Industry Council (JMIC), a global umbrella organisation for the business events industry.

Before, she held the position of Public Affairs Director at Messe Frankfurt (Germany). Among other responsibilities, she ran several EU funded projects, developed the comprehensive IPR prevention and enforcement service “Messe Frankfurt against Copying” and was responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility in Frankfurt and globally. 

Barbara Weizsäcker has long years of experience with exhibitions and politics having worked for the German Publishers and Booksellers Association – organiser of the Frankfurt Book Fair – and for the European Booksellers Federation in Brussels in beginning of her career.

Barbara Weizsäcker studied English, French and Spanish Literature and Linguistics and read History in Freiburg (Germany) and Madrid (Spain). She specialised in EU Studies in Paris (France).

Breakout

11/22/2024 | 11:15 - 11:45 (GMT+01:00) Berlin| Room Q, level 2