IALCA, Italy. Pina Foti, founder and director of the language travel agency ILS Study Abroad and of StudioItalia, Italian Language School, both in Rome, has been elected president of IALCA, during its AGM in February. She is taking over from Lorenzo Agati and will serve as President for the next three years. Pina has been already president of IALCA twice, from  2007 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2012. She wants to promote the crucial role of agents and language consultants toward students and emphasize the importance of partnerships with FELCA, GAELA, Embassies and the Educational Institutions to be based on clear and definite deontological principles.