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10 September 2020
2020 General Assembly: AIJA makes new appointments
During its 58th Annual Congress from 24 to 28 August 2020, AIJA, the International Association of Young Lawyers brought virtually together 350 legal professionals from around the world to debate ideas surrounding diversity and the legal profession in today’s world.
It is with great pleasure that we officially communicate the results of the recent elections held during the AIJA General Assembly last 28th August, together with the new appointments in the different bodies of our Association approved by the Executive Committee during their meeting the day before.
Let’s welcome together the outstanding commitment and essential contribution of these newly elected Officers!
Bureau
- François Barré, President
- Paola Fudakowska, Immediate Past President
- Anna Wyrzykowska, First Vice-President (elected by the General Assembly)
- Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Secretary General (elected by the General Assembly)
- Eduardo de la Peña Bernal, Deputy Treasurer (elected by the Bureau)
Extended Bureau
Academic Programme Committee
- Anouk Rosielle
- Babak Tabeshian
- Kristine Zvejniece
Officers of the Commissions Committee
- Aurélie Conrad Hari
- Jean-Rodolphe Fiechter
- Rebecka Thörn
National Representatives Committee
- Clara Gordon (newly appointed)
- Arnoldo Lacayo (newly appointed)
- Tomas Rybar
Human Rights Committee
- Martijn Burgers
- Stéphane de Navacelle (newly appointed)
- Pia Padfield
Newly elected Executive Committee members
(For a complete list of Executive Committee members, please click here)
- Tom Arntz
- Luana Barros
- Alisa Burkhard
- Beatriz del Carmen Cabal-Chen
- Myriam Desnus
- Marika Devaux
- Sophie Lens
- Michelle Lindholm
- Moritz Maurer
- Maike Sauter
- Eva Schwittek
- Thomas Seeber
- Giuliano Stasio
- Marnix Van Den Bergh
- Pieter Van Den Broeck
- Sandy Van Der Schaaf
- Giuseppe Salsarulo (1-year mandate)
- Krzysztof Pawlak (1-year mandate)
- Lisette Dupre has been invited to the Executive Committee for a period of one year.
Newly appointed National Representatives and contact persons
(For a complete list of National Representatives and local contacts, please click here)
Austria: Philip Rosenauer
Canada: Monty Dhaliwal
Chile: Cristian Casanova
Czech Republic: Eva Indruchová
Estonia: Madis Reppo
France: Marie Davy
Greece: Eleni Skoufari
Hungary: Tamás Mihály Balogh
India: Manav Raheja
Israel: Adam Salkin
Lithuania: Edvinas Meskys
Netherlands: Marjolein van Rest
Norway: Carl Christian Marthiniussen
Portugal: David Areias
Romania: Ioan Radu
Sweden: Jakob Nortoft
Switzerland: Janine Reudt-Demont
United Arab Emirates: Celia Titouni
United Kingdom: Jennifer Maxwell
Uruguay: Alejandra Garcia
Regional Representative for Germany (Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein): Antonius Jonetzki
Regional Representative for Switzerland - Basel: Laura Manz
Regional Representative for Switzerland – French speaking regions: Ludivine Boisard
Contact person, Bahamas: Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou
Contact person, Cameroon : Aurelien Djengue
Contact person, Costa Rica: Alejandro Vargas
Contact person, Georgia: Gvantsa Jishiashvili
Contact person, Paraguay: Veronica Franco
Contact person, Singapore: Julie Raneda
Contact person, Taiwan: Miranda Liu
Newly appointed Commission Officers
(For a complete list of Commission Officers, please click here)
Antitrust
Antitrust Vice-President: Karen Ruback
Banking, Finance and Capital Market
Banking, Finance and Capital Market President: Alex Carbonell
Banking, Finance and Capital Market Vice-President: Lars Raedschelders
Commercial Fraud
Commercial Fraud President: Nicolas Herren
Commercial Fraud Vice-President: Adam Flacks
Corporate and M&A
Corporate and M&A President: Marie Brasseur
Corporate and M&A President: Rainer Kaspar
Corporate and M&A Vice-President: Hugo Teixeira
Corporate and M&A Vice-President: Christian Sauer
Environment and Energy Law
Environmental and Energy Law Vice-President: Jeroen De Coninck
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications President: Sylvia Van Shaik
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Vice-President: Johannes Struck
International Business Law
International Business Law President: Bruno Guarnieri
International Business Law Vice-President: Agata Adamczyk
International Private Clients and Family Law
International Private Clients and Family Law President: Veronica Dindo
International Private Clients and Family Law Vice-President: John Davies
Labour Law
Labour Law President: Caroline Barbe
Labour Law Vice-President: Kato Aerts
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning Vice-President: Marco Gardino
Tax Law
Tax Law President: Guadalupe Diaz-Sunico
Tax Law Vice-President: Eva Stadler
Transport Law
Transport Law President: Cherry Almeida
Transport Law Vice-President: Hendrikje Herrmann
Transport Law Vice-President: Davide Canepa
Transport Law Vice-President: Ansam Okbani
31 August 2020
AIJA welcomes new appointments to leadership team
AIJA, The International Association of Young Lawyers, elected at its 2020 General Assembly a new Vice-President for the 2020-2021 term of office, as well as a new Secretary General.
François Barré (Azam-Darley Associé) will take on his role as President, as First Vice-President Anna Wyrzykowska (WKB), as Immediate Past President Paola Fudakowska (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office), as Secretary General Jean-Philippe Arroyo (JP Karsenty & Associés), and as Deputy Treasurer Eduardo De La Pena Bernal (Reed Smith LLP).
At the General Assembly, François Barré, President of AIJA set out his outlook for the association with a focus on Innovation.
14 July 2020
AIJA urges UN Member States to recognise, uphold and protect the rule of law
A joint call for action - signed by 50 bar associations, law societies, and national and international lawyers' associations, including AIJA, the International Association of Young Lawyers - has been issued on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the adoption of the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.
The call for action reaffirms the relevance and the universality of the Basic Principles and notes with "great concern the increasing frequency, globally, of attacks and interferences both on the independence of the legal profession, and against lawyers individually, including threats, intimidation, retaliation, harassment and interference in the discharge of lawyers’ professional functions.
