On the afternoon of January 19, 2021, Federation of Asean Consulting Engineers – FACE successfully held the Assembly General Meeting for the term 2022 – 2023 with the participation of member national associations, led by Ms. Nguyen Thi Duyen, President of the Federation of Asean Consulting Engineers (FACE) term 2020-2021, and President of the Vietnam Engineering Consultant Association, chaired the session online. Vice Presidents of VECAS :  Dr. Hoang Ung Huyen, Dr. Tu Duc Hoa and Mrs Pham Thi Bich attended.

After the flag raising ceremony and singing of the national anthems of Vietnam and ASEAN, FACE President Nguyen Thi Duyen gave the opening speech, warmly welcoming and thank the presence of Mr. Lee Yoong Yoong, Director of of the Community Affairs of the ASEAN Secretariat, the Leaders of member associations, colleagues from the National Association of Indonesian Consultans (INKINDO), Consulting Engineers Association of Thailand (CEAT), Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM), Council of Engineering Consultants of the Philippines (CECOPHIL), and Vietnam Engineering Consultant Association (VECAS) attended the online FACE Asembly  General  Meeting 2022. FACE’s Members include 07 associations from 07 countries in ASEAN, all are Members of FIDIC.  According to the FACE Constitution and by Laws, the term of the regular Assembly General Meeting is 2 years and therefore, the term of the President of FACE is also 2 years.

The FACE President emphasized  “It must be said that in the past two years, we have been facing enormous difficulties and challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected life and global activities, but also prevented us from meeting face-to-face in the traditional friendship of FACE’ Members, under the common ASEAN home. However, we always make unremitting efforts, still affirming the capacity and position of the technical consulting industry with many important contributions to build economic and recovery in ASEAN countries; maintain the promotion of international cooperation, together overcome the challenge of the pandemic”.

The Assembly General Meeting approved the operation report of FACE for the term 2020 – 2021; recognized the President of FACE for the term 2022 – 2023 as the Chairman of the Philippine Council of Consulting Engineers (Mr. Roy Anthony Luna); elected the President of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Singapore to assume the title of Vice Chairman of FACE and elected the Executive Board for the term 2022 – 2023. FACE President Anthony Luna continued to appoint Mr. Zulkifli Halim, Vice Secretary General of INKINDO holds the position of General Secretary of FACE…

Some pictures

President chaired the AGM

Participating delegates

FACE President term 2020-2021 gives flowers to congratulate the FACE President term 2022-2023