BIR president Susie Burrage OBE has appointed Alicia Garcia-Franco as new chairwoman of the organization’s articles of association and internal rules committee.
Garcia-Franco is director general of BIR’s Spanish member association FER and has been at the head of the organization since 1994. Over the years, she has been active within BIR, in particular in the framework of its network of national recycling associations with a focus on legislation affecting the recycling sector. Since 2014, she has held the position of vice president of EuRIC, the European Recycling Industries Confederation. She is an executive committee member of CONFEMETAL (Spanish Metal Confederation), a permanent commission member of UNE, the sole Spanish standardization organization, and board member of AENOR International, a knowledge management company active in conformity assessment, training and information services.