Christophe Ginisty elected president of IPRA

Ginisty has been a member of IPRA since the late '90s and served as a council and then a board member before being elected earlier this year to the new worldwide governing body.

He will officially begin his presidency early January 2013 and will serve as president elect in 2012 while Johanna McDowell of South Africa serves her term as president.

IPRA strives to be the world's most relevant, resourceful and influential professional association for senior international public relations executives. The association provides both intellectual leadership in the practice of international public relations and makes available to its members the services that will help them meet their professional responsibilities and to succeed in their careers, thus enabling the association to increase membership, grow financially and create a virtuous circle of success.

IPRA works at the academic level with universities as well as with global organisations such as the United Nations to promote transparency and ethics in the information age.

For more information go to www.ipra.org/.