IAFEI World Congress

Marek Belka, president of the Polish National Bank at the gala dinner at the 43rd IAFEI World Congress in Warsaw, October 2013^[1]

The IAFEI World Congress is an annual congress organized on behalf of the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI). The two to four days congress, which includes a gala dinner, is hosted by one of the national member institutes of IAFEI. The congress, which is organized for corporate finance executives from all over the world is normally held with the national convention of the hosting institute.

The first congress of international finance executives institutes was held in 1969 in Marbella, Spain.^[2] IAFEI World Congresses have been held since then in 21 different countries. In the years 1975 and 2009 no congresses were organized.

Past congresses

• 1st IAFEI World Congress, Marbella, Spain, 1969
• 2nd IAFEI World Congress, Brussels, Belgium, 1970
• 3rd IAFEI World Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, 1971
• 4th IAFEI World Congress, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1972
• 5th IAFEI World Congress, Paris, France, 1973
• 6th IAFEI World Congress, Manila, Philippines, 1974
• 7th IAFEI World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1976
• 8th IAFEI World Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 1977
• 9th IAFEI World Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1978
• 10th IAFEI World Congress, Atlanta, USA, 1979
• 11th IAFEI World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 1980
• 12th IAFEI World Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, 1981
• 13th IAFEI World Congress, Madrid, Spain, 17-20 October 1982
• 14th IAFEI World Congress, Jakarta, Indonesia, 31 October-November 2 1983
• 15th IAFEI World Congress, Venice, Italy, 30 September-3 October 1984
• 16th IAFEI World Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-20 November 1985
• 17th IAFEI World Congress, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 9-12 November 1986
• 18th IAFEI World Congress, Caracas, Venezuela, 25-28 October 1987
• 19th IAFEI World Congress, Manila, Philippines, 16-19 October 1988
• 20th IAFEI World Congress, Paris, France, 26-29 September 1989
• 21st IAFEI World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, 5-7 November 1990
• 22nd IAFEI World Congress, Cancun, Mexico, 21-23 November 1991
• 23rd IAFEI World Congress, Madrid, Spain, 25-28 October 1992
• 24th IAFEI World Congress, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, 19-25 September 1993
• 25th IAFEI World Congress, Washington D.C., USA, 2-5 October 1994
• 26th IAFEI World Congress, Rome, Italy, 4-6 October 1995
• 27th IAFEI World Congress, Jakarta/Bali, Indonesia, 30 October-1 November 1996
• 28th IAFEI World Congress, Interlaken, Switzerland, 18-19 September 1997
• 29th IAFEI World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-23 September 1998
• 30th IAFEI World Congress, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 26-28 May 1999
• 31st IAFEI World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 8-11 October 2000
• 32nd IAFEI World Congress, Cancun, Mexico, 17-21 October 2001
• 33rd IAFEI World Congress, Madrid, Spain, 23-25 October 2002
• 34th IAFEI World Congress, Florida, USA, 4-7 May 2003
• 35th IAFEI World Congress, Florence, Italy, 11-13 October 2004
• 36th IAFEI World Congress, Manila, Philippines, 4-7 November 2005
• 37th IAFEI World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 8-11 October 2006
• 38th IAFEI World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 10-12 September 2007
• 39th IAFEI World Congress, Paris, France, 15-17 December 2008
• 40th IAFEI World Congress, Rome, Italy, 13-15 October 2010
• 41st IAFEI World Congress, Beijing, China, 16-18 September 2011
• 42nd IAFEI World Congress, Cancun, Mexico, 14-17 November 2012

The 43rd IAFEI World Congress was held in conjunction with 6th CFO Summit Emerging Markets & CIS in Warsaw, Poland from 14-17 October 2013. The organizers on behalf of IAFEI were FINEXA - Stowarzyszenie Dyrektorów Finansowych and CFO Insight (a media brand by Frankfurt Business Media, Frankfurt).^[3] The 44th IAFEI World Congress will be held in 15-17 October 2014 for the fourth time in Manila, Philippines. This is being organized by the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX).^[4]

Notes and references

1. Marek Belka wszedł do Galerii Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii. Prezes NBP wyróżniony przez największą polską organizację zrzeszającą dyrektorów finansowych, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, November 5th, 2013, nr. 214 (3604), str D2 (in Polish)
2. Frederik Niklas Kuhn, Elite Role and Context: The Construction of the CFO in the German Business Field, Institute of Management Accounting and Control, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Pressel, Remshalden 2011, p 35
3. Congress website (in Polish, partly in English)
4. Presidents Notes from February 2013 at the FINEX website

External links

• Past IAFEI World Congresses at the IAFEI website