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IAEM Spain
 Message from IAEM Spain Chapter President (12 Oct 2010)
"In 2007, the first individual members in Spain joined to the International Association of Emergency Managers, which was little known in our country at that time. One of these pioneers was the man who became the first National Representative of IAEM in this country, Alvaro C. Pemartin, who undertook a major effort to promote IAEM among Spanish professionals engaged to emergency management. Thanks to him, in May 2008, I was introduced to the IAEM family, offering his personal website focused on civil protection issues — one of the major references in Spain — as the official site of IAEM for Spanish-speaking people. Months later, in November 2009, I assumed the National Representative office, encouraged by Alvaro Pemartin himself.
"At the time, IAEM membership was growing and incorporating highly qualified and very experienced professionals with many years of service in the field of emergency management and coping with disasters. So we get to June 2010, when the President of IAEM Europa, Arthur Rabjohn, CEM, suggested to me creation of a National Chapter in Spain. Once we accepted this challenge, the IAEM Spain Chapter only was a matter of time.
"On 25th September 2010, in the New Boston Hotel in Madrid, the Foundational Meeting was held during which the Spanish IAEM members decided by a majority to approve the creation of the IAEM Spain Chapter, approve the national bylaws, and submitting the chapter application to IAEM Headquarters. Finally, on 4th October, just a few days after the meeting in Madrid, the IAEM Global Board, meeting in Singapore, ratified the birth of the IAEM Spain Chapter, the first such chapter created within the IAEM Europa Council.
"This seems to be the end of a long journey, but it really is the beginnig of a dream called IAEM Spain." —
Approval of IAEM Spain as a Chapter of the IAEM Europa Council (04 Oct 2010)
Arthur Rabjohn, CEM, IAEM Europa President, has announced that IAEM Spain has been approved as a chapter of the IAEM Europa Council. Founding chapter officers are listed above.
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