The 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the London and South East Coast (L&SEC) members group was held at Society of Chemical Industry headquarters on Wednesday 5 February 2020.

The meeting, led by the re-elected Chair of the L&SEC members group Keith Hanson, started with a review of the 2019 highlights and budget of the main group. The presentation was followed by an award ceremony in which three of our members, Maria Apostolopoulou, Domenico Macri and Ruben Altamirano, were recognised for their significant contribution to the main L&SEC group during the previous year.

The elected L&SEC committee for the current year was announced after the award ceremony. This includes Keith Hanson (Chair), Pablo Garcia-Trinanes (Vice Chair), Colin Tamsett (Treasurer) and Domenico Macri (Secretary). We congratulate and wish the best to Domenico, who volunteered during 2019 as secretary of the L&SEC Young Members Forum.

The ceremony was followed by the talk “Chemical Engineering- getting the right focus for the benefit of key stakeholders” delivered by the president of the IChemE, Professor Stephen Richardson. During the talk, some key aspects of ‘Strategy 2024’ were highlighted, as well as the concept of mastery as part of the content of undergraduate ChemEng courses, among other relevant information to the stakeholders.

The AGM finished with a reception and networking session among the attendees, in which some young members had the chance to share their opinions with Professor Stephen Richardson.

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