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Birmingham UK 2013

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Europe and the UK’s second city Birmingham was the venue of 2013. With more canals than Venice and the city with the greatest number of tree in Europe, Birmingham was pleased to welcome the delegates of IAPAE. The host was…

South Africa Jo’burg 2012

The University of the Witwatersrand

So, onto our next visit to Africa, and to South Africa, Johannesburg. This conference was hosted by the University of Witwatersrand. The biggest conference yet, with over 70 delegates and speakers from across the globe, including a telecast from Washington…

Oh Canada 2011

Montreal, Canada

In 2011 the conference followed the PAEA conference in the USA on to Montreal Canada at the beginning of a very cold November, the conference moved to the vibrant city of Montreal Canada, where we were once again inspired by…

Bonnie Scotland 2010

Mar Hall, in Renfrewshire Scotland

The grandeur of the mountains, the beauty of the rivers and valleys, welcomed IAPAE to the stunning Mar Hall, in Renfrewshire Scotland. The ancestral home of the Earl of Mar set majestically on the banks of the river Clyde was…

Out of Africa 2009

IAPAE-About-Us-03

In 2009 we were honoured and privileged to hold our 2nd conference in Sunyani, Ghana. To say we received a warm welcome in Ghana would be an understatement; from the very outset our welcome was warm and kind. The regional…

The Beginning 2008

Savannah-Georgia-USA

The Founding Board of Dana Sayre-Stanhope, Nick Ross, David Fahringer and I, Phil Begg, launched the organisation in an invitation only meeting, bringing together representatives from 14 countries around a table to discuss the challenges of developing a global forum…

A Good old country song!

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

I’ve often said the story of IAPAE sounds like the start of an old country song “It started in a bar in Tucson Arizona”.  The truth is it did. In 2007 in the bar of the conference hotel for the…