A Conversation with Carina Bauer, President & CEO, IMEX

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IMEX brings the global meetings industry together twice a year to unite and advance the meetings industry through education, innovation, and creating powerful connections. Their events allow meeting planners to connect easily with suppliers across the globe and build powerful working relationships.   

Join us for a conversation with IMEX CEO Carina Bauer about leadership, the global business events industry, and what you can expect at IMEX America 2021!

Meet the Speakers

Carina Bauer, CEO - IMEX Group

A passionate and dedicated leader, Carina Bauer is the CEO of the IMEX Group – an organisation responsible for organising the leading global trade shows for the international business events industry. Carina is passionate about the business events sector and its impact on the world, taking a particular interest in issues around sustainability, diversity and inclusion and mentoring the leaders of tomorrow. Carina also takes a keen interest in leadership development and organisational best practice. 

Throughout her career, Carina has been an active member of the meetings industry. She is currently President Elect for the AEO Council, Immediate Past President of the SITE Foundation and serves as an UFI Board member. She has previously served on the Board of the MPIUK Chapter and on global committees for MPI and PCMA. 

Having graduated from Oxford University, UK, with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics, and following a short stint in retail and catering, she joined the business events industry in 2002 as the Marketing and Operations Director for IMEX in Frankfurt as part of the original launch team for the exhibition. Following the expansion of the IMEX brand into America in 2009, Carina was appointed CEO of the IMEX Group. 

Carina lives in the south east of the UK, near to the IMEX Group office in Brighton – a coastal town called “London-by-the-Sea” due to its cosmopolitan nature and youth culture. 

She enjoys spending time with her family (she’s a mother to two boys) and travelling for work and pleasure. She is an adventure sports enthusiast with a particular love for skiing, hitting the slopes with friends and family when she can.