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Fabienne Meyers is Associate Director for the International Union or Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). IUPAC mission is to provide leadership, facilitation, and encouragement of chemistry and promotes the norms, values, standards, and ethics of science and the free exchange of scientific information. Since working with IUPAC starting in 1998, Fabienne has developed and managed print and online communications, including the website, the scientific journal and newsmagazine, implemented programs to engage younger chemists in the Union’s work, and continuously engaged with hundreds of volunteers to coordinate IUPAC projects. She worked with the team that secured UN recognition of the 2011 International Year of Chemistry. During that year, she managed to engage via a dedicated website, thousands of volunteers to celebrate Chemistry in many different ways. In 2013, she coordinated the involvement of an increased number of Young Observers during the Union General Assembly and facilitated their engagement in the World Chemistry Leadership Meeting, a flagship meeting organized by IUPAC for the leaders of its members organizations to discuss emerging and pressing issues of global concern. Fabienne is managing editor of the Union’s newsmagazine and thrives to present to its readership topics a broad diversity. She graduated from the University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, with a PhD in Chemistry and came to the United States for her post doctoral training at Caltech. She works for IUPAC remotely from her office in the Chemistry Department at Boston University.