The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has set Emilie Anthonis as its new President and Managing Director for the Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA) area. Anthonis will take up the put up as of January 1, 2025, succeeding Stan McCoy, who’s stepping down after greater than a decade.
Primarily based in Brussels, Anthonis will report back to Gail MacKinnon, Senior Govt Vice President, World Coverage & Authorities Affairs.
Previous to becoming a member of the MPA in 2017, Anthonis was Director of Authorized and Public Affairs on the Affiliation of Industrial Tv in Europe. Earlier than that, she served as in-house counsel at Viacom. She started her profession as an IP lawyer in a Brussels legislation agency specializing in copyright and media legislation.
“Emilie is a veteran of the MPA and the European audiovisual sector, and she or he’s earned a robust fame as a robust advocate for the artistic trade, an professional in policymaking, a revered voice in European capitals, and a frontrunner of integrity,” stated Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the MPA. “Emilie is able to take the reins of our operations and function an efficient voice for our trade throughout this area, and I’ve full confidence in her capacity to maintain advancing the MPA’s priorities, main our coverage engagements and accompanying our member studios’ partnerships with stakeholders all through Europe and past.”
Added Anthonis, “I’m wanting ahead to serving the MPA members on this new capability whereas persevering with the spirit of teamwork that Stan has impressed throughout all of our MPA EMEA operations. Europe is such a key marketplace for the MPA’s members, and so they have a really lengthy historical past of storytelling and partnerships within the area.
Commented McCoy, “I’m proud to go the baton after an thrilling decade main what’s undoubtedly the EMEA area’s most expert commerce affiliation throughout public coverage, anti-piracy, and all its different fields of experience.”
