The Regional Director & Country Representative Committee of International Goat Association selected prof. Emilia Bagnicka, PhD, DSc to receive the 2018 Achievement Award for Regional Director for an outstanding job representing IGA in Eastern Europe during the past year. The main duties of regional Director are promoting IGA and its International Conference on Goats, organizing in-country and regional conferences, soliciting new members, proposing new Country Representatives, sending technical bulletins and videos, preparing country reports for the IGA newsletter, and presenting a public voice on the importance of goats in the modern world.