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23 September 2022
2022 General Assembly: New appointments in AIJA
During its 60th Annual Congress taking place from 22 to 27 August 2022, AIJA, the International Association Young Lawyers gathered 400+ young legal professionals from around the world to discuss upon the future of the legal profession.
It is with great pleasure that we officially communicate the results of the recent elections held online during the AIJA General Assembly on 26 August 2022, together with the new appointments in the different bodies of our Association approved by the Executive Committee during their meeting on the day before and appointments made by the Bureau.
Let’s welcome together the outstanding commitment and essential contribution of these newly elected and appointed Officers!
Bureau
- Moritz Maurer, President
- Anna Wyrzykowska, Immediate Past President
- Eduardo De la Peña Bernal, First Vice-President (elected by the General Assembly)
- Tomáš Rybár, Secretary General (elected by the General Assembly)
- Caroline Barbe, Deputy Treasurer (appointed by the Bureau)
Extended Bureau
Academic Programme Committee
- Kato Aerts (newly appointed)
- Christian Ritschka (newly appointed)
- Jens Uwe Rügenhagen
Officers of the Commissions Committee
- Nicky de Groot
- Damien Devot
- Michaela Pelinka (newly appointed)
National Representatives Committee
- Clara Gordon
- Arnoldo Lacayo
- Fernanda Machado Moreira
Human Rights Committee
- Stéphane de Navacelle
- Clara Poglia
- Silvia van Schaik (newly appointed)
Sustainability Board
- Dino Serafini
- Daria Capotorto (newly appointed)
- Lisa Urbas (newly appointed)
Bar Relations Coordinator
- Radina Tomanova (newly appointed)
AIJA Women Network
- Fernanda Pacheco (newly appointed)
- Joanna Chew (newly appointed)
- Maria Jennerholm (newly appointed)
Newly elected Executive Committee members
(For a complete list of Executive Committee members, please click here)
- Maria Jennerholm
- Sophie Gilliam
- Joanna Chew
- Nadia Smahi
- Marine Simmonot
- Eliane Haas
- Christine Conception
- Lorna Cela
- Nick Atkins
- Gustavo Coelho
- David Roche
- Salome Wieser
- Tomasz Baron
- Christopher Wolters
- Vikas Saraswat
- Matthijs Roest Crollius
- Azmul Haque (2-years mandate)
- Pierpaolo Vinci (1-year mandate)
- Michał Chodkowski (1-year mandate)
Newly appointed AIJA Representatives Worldwide
(For a complete list of National Representatives and local contacts, please click here)
National Representatives
Argentina: Gustavo Papeschi
Bulgaria: Ivan Alexander Manev
China: Cheng Chen
Germany: Jan Hermeling
Ireland: Daniel Lucey
Italy: Gianluca Albè
Panama: Carlos Molino (extended)
Poland: Krzysztof Pawlak
Russia: Anna Zabrotskaya
Spain: Eva Sagrista
Switzerland: Ruben Masar
Turkey: Ceren Hazal Baydar
Ukraine: Oleksii Prudkyi
USA: Katja Garvey
Regional Coordinator
LATAM: Beatriz Cabal
Local Representatives
Bahamas: Sophia Rolle (extended)
Curacao: Roderik van Hees (extended)
Cyprus: Eleni Neoptolemou
Kuwait (new): Almas Buqammaz
Lebanon: Karim Noueihed (extended)
Peru: Renzo Roberti
Serbia: Siniša Čolević
Regional Representatives
Germany – Munich: Maximilian Krämer
Germany – Berlin: Til Quadflieg
Spain – Madrid: Álvaro Fernández (extended)
Newly appointed Commission Officers
(For a complete list of Commission Officers, please click here)
Banking, Finance and Capital Market
President: Lars Raedschelders
Vice-President: Valerio Scollo
Commercial Fraud
President: Charlotte Tregunna
Vice-President: Judith De Boer
Environment and Energy Law
Co-Presidents: Carlos del Razo and Jeroen de Coninck
Vice-President: Eduardo Patricio Boris
Healthcare and Life Sciences
President: Janine Reudt-Demont
Vice-President: Tímea Halkó
Vice-President: Jan Henning Martens
In-house Counsel
President: Jérôme Debras
Insolvency
Co-Presidents: Paulo Nasser and Elaina Bailes
Vice-President: Armando Perna
Vice-President: Stephanie Oneyser
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Co-Presidents: Cristina Hernández-Marti and Chloe Taylor
Vice-President: Sophie Lens
International Arbitration
Co-President: Lukas Rusch
Vice-President: Dirk Wiegandt
Labour Law
Vice-President: Therese Waidmann
Litigation
President: Rosie Wild
Vice-President: Laura Manz
Vice-President: Guillermo Bayas Fernández
Real Estate
Co-Presidents: Johannes Meyer- Myklestad and Christoph Nöhles
Vice-President: Emma Niemisto
Vice-President: Alessia Giaccari
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning
President: Max Maillet
Vice-President: Aline von Düring
T.R.A.D.E
President: Jelle Blom
Vice-President: Elena Kadelburger
Tax Law
President: Gertjan Verachtert
Vice-President: Alessandro Foti
26 July 2022
AIJA supporting initiatives for Ukraine
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, AIJA has acted to condemn the attack and support the Ukrainian population by creating a special TaskForce (Diana Tudor, Inka Knappertsbusch, Marek Laca, Oleksii Prudkyi, Tomasz Krzywański and Alisa Burkhard) collecting money and donations and including different forum conversations on our members' portal, MyAIJA, to offer job opportunities to Ukrainian lawyers and their families, support them and give information about English schools for Ukrainian children.
Today, together with the contribution of our special TaskForce, we are glad to introduce you to new initiatives and projects that AIJA supports, and we hope that you and your law firms will be able to help as well. We also strongly encourage to share this message with your clients and other potential donors.
22 July 2022
In memory of Frans Duynstee, 1960 - 2022
It is with great sadness and sorrow that we received the message that Frans Duynstee, Honorary Past President of AIJA, died in Maastricht on 15 July 2022.
