Membership Services

Professional Development
Continuing education is accomplished through The Advisor newsletter, professional conferences, workshops, educational seminars and other products.



Model Forms
AIPN's model form international contractual agreements are tools for the negotiator that promote and facilitate sound international transactions.



Networking Opportunities
AIPN provides opportunities for members to enhance professional relationships and to keep abreast of industry activities and trends.



General Membership Services
Other services include an online membership directory that is updated regularly, monthly distribution of Association and member news through The Advisor, and an ongoing confidential resume referral service for members seeking career changes and companies seeking to hire negotiators.

Active Membership
Active Membership in the Association shall be available to professional international negotiators regularly and primarily engaged in direct negotiations work in the international extractive mineral or energy industries and also to those professional persons associated with international negotiations work relating to the extractive mineral and/or energy industries, but whose primary function is to assist, support, or enhance the negotiation of international energy or mineral contracts.

By way of illustration, but not in limitation, professional persons engaged in such supporting professions might include engineers, attorneys, geologists, geophysicists and accountants. Each active member applicant must be recommended by at least (3) Active Members, each of whom shall personally know the applicant and be willing to serve as reference on his behalf.

Student Participation in the AIPN shall be available to those persons who are enrolled in a college or university on a full-time basis in the study of any of the primary functions or supporting professions described above for Active Membership. Applicants for Student Participation status shall submit a completed application form bearing the recommendation of at least one (1) Active Member of the AIPN who is personally acquainted with the applicant; and shall furnish evidence of full-time student status which may be in the form of a letter or other school record from that student's college or university. Student Participants shall not be entitled to vote or hold office of any kind in the AIPN