CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry, with some 800 members across Europe, has appointed Christel Davidson as Managing director per March 2020.
Christel Davidson lives in Brussels and holds a degree in commercial sciences and has a diploma for environmental studies. She worked in Brussels for several European Associations and most recently as Director of the Small Business Standards association; representing SMEs and National Associations on specific standardisation processes and the securing of funds from the EU and EFTA.
She will succeed Jan van der Meulen who has been leading CEPE for the past 15 years and go in retirement.