President of the Asia Pacific Institute for Events Management (www.theapiem.com); President of the APIEM Academy (https://www.apiem-ems.com/academy); President of the Sri Lanka Institute for Events Management Board of Study; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business and Management and Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Universiti
Teknologi MARA, Malaysia; Managing Editor the Asia Pacific International Events Management Journal; Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Event Industry Academy (www.eventsindustryacademy.com) ; Distinguished Professor at Chung Hua University, Taiwan; Visiting Professor at: Bali, Institute of Tourism, Indonesia; Batam Tourism Polytechnic, Indonesia;
Bandung Institute of Tourism, Indonesia; and Palembang Polytechnic of Tourism, Indonesia.

Executive Director of the International Institute of Tourism at the George Washington University. She has spent more than 15 years designing and directing large, multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative and the Sustainable Destinations Alliance of the Americas, that have mainstreamed sustainable tourism principles into key sectors of the tourism industry