Doug Heath, MPI’s First Full-Time CEO, Passes at 77 A charter member of the organization that began in 1972, he recently served on the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and completed a timeline of the association’s D&I achievements for its upcoming 50th anniversary celebration.
Doug Heath, CMP, one of 150 charter members of Meeting Professionals International in 1972 who became executive vice president and the group’s first full-time CEO ten years later, died in late November. He was 77 years old.
In his 20s, Heath worked at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, where he assisted meeting groups. A few years later, he became meeting director at AICPA and then got involved with a fledging association that would become MPI. “He was excited about the possibility of making [meeting planning] more of a profession,” said Kathy Heath, his wife, in an article on MPI’s web site. “He wanted the planners, vendors, and suppliers to work together more. He also had a big focus on
RICHARD GEARING FRAeS
, Chair of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, reflects on the Society’s progress six months since it issued its to tackle racial inequality.
On 10 June 2020, the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Chief Executive, President and I issued a statement on the Black Lives Matter movement setting out how the Society could use its channels to enact positive change and address racial inequality, both within the Society and across the Aviation and Aerospace sectors. In that statement, we committed ourselves to a number of actions and I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on progress.
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