During its 57th Annual Congress in Rome, Italy from 3 to 7 September 2019, AIJA, the International Association of Young Lawyers brought together 800 legal professionals from around the world to debate ideas surrounding sustainability and the legal profession in today’s digitalised and globalised world.
It is with great pleasure that we officially communicate the results of the recent elections held during the AIJA General Assembly in Rome last September 7th, together with the new appointments in the different bodies of our Association approved by the Executive Committee during their meeting on the same day. We are also pleased to announce the creation of a new commission: Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Let’s welcome together the outstanding commitment and essential contribution of these newly elected Officers!
Bureau
• Paola Fudakowska, President
• Xavier Costa, Immediate Past President
• François Barré, First Vice-President (elected by the General Assembly)
• Anna Wyrzykowska, Treasurer (elected by the General Assembly)
• Emiliano Ganzarolli, Secretary General
• Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Deputy Secretary General (appointed by the Bureau)
Extended Bureau
Academic Programme Committee
• Anouk Rosielle (newly appointed)
• Babak Tabeshian (newly appointed)
• Kristine Zvejniece
Officers of the Commissions Committee
• Aurélie Conrad-Hari (newly appointed)
• Jean-Rodolphe Fiechter
• Rebecka Thörn
National Representatives Committee
• Michaela Pelinka
• Tomas Rybar
• Arthur Stüssi Neves (newly appointed)
Human Rights Committee
• Gülsüm Aslan
• Martijn Burgers (newly appointed)
• Pia Padfield (newly appointed)
• Ülkü Solak
Sponsorship Committee
• Eduardo de la Peña Bernal (newly appointed)
• Rainer Kaspar (newly appointed)
• Gianluca Massimei (newly appointed)
• Yan Pecoraro (newly appointed)
Diversity Officer
• Matthew Cullen (newly appointed)
Newly elected Executive Committee members
(For a complete list of Executive Committee members, please click here)
• Alexander Bork
• Milena Charnitzky
• Helen Figurelli
• Philipp Haymann
• Kazuma Higuchi
• Zlatina Iliev
• Elena Kadelburger
• Laura Manz
• Jeroen Mues
• Sophie Püschel-Arnold
• Lars Raedschelders
• Jens Uwe Rügenhagen
• Dino Serafini
• Andres Sotomayor
• Thomas Thiébaut
• Louise Wong
In addition, five members will take office and replace those who had to leave the Executive Committee due to other appointments in the Association or resignation.
• Ruben Masar, with a mandate for two years until the General Assembly in 2021
• Alessandro Paci, with a mandate for two years until the General Assembly in 2021
• Alessia Giaccari, with a mandate for two years until the General Assembly in 2021
• Giuseppe Salsarulo, with a mandate for one year until the General Assembly in 2020
• Kajal Patel, with a mandate for one year until the General Assembly in 2020
Tom Arntz 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)
China: Steven Zhou
Colombia: Jose Azpurua Alfonzo
Estonia: Kadri Kallas
Germany: Rebekka Stumpfrock
Italy: Francesca Salerno
Japan: Takuo Misaki
Netherlands: Paul Van Lange
Norway: Lilly Kathrin Relling (reappointed)
Poland: Agata Adamczyk
Russian Federation: Alexander Katzendorn
Slovenia: Jera Majzelj
Spain: Alejandro Yufera
United States: Perry Maclennan
Regional Representative Berlin: Donata Störmer
Regional Representative Hamburg: Johannes Struck
Regional Representative München: Carolin van Straelen
Southwest Germany: Rebekka Stumpfrock
Contact person, Cyprus: George Manikas
Contact person, Dutch Caribbean: Roderik van Hees
Contact person, Kenya: Evelyne Nzuki
Contact person, Philippines: Kristin Charisse Siao
Contact person, Serbia: Natalija Popovic
Contact person, Ukraine: Oleksii Prudkyi
Newly appointed Commission Officers
(For a complete list of Commission Officers, please click here)
Commercial Fraud
Commercial Fraud President: James Le Gallais
Commercial Fraud Vice-President: Charlotte Tregunna
Environment and Energy Law
Environmental and Energy Law President: Daria Capotorto
Environmental and Energy Law Vice-President: Carlos Del Razo
In-house Counsel
In-house Counsel President: Anda Mize
In-house Counsel Vice-President: Narjess Naouar
In-house Counsel Vice-President: Jérôme Debras
Insolvency
Insolvency President: Marine Simonnot
Insolvency Vice-President: Elaina Bailes
Insolvency Vice-President: Paulo Nasser
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Vice-President: Chloe Taylor
Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Vice-President: Cristina Hernandez-Marti Perez
International Arbitration
International Arbitration President: Eduardo de la Peña Bernal
International Arbitration Vice-President: Silvia Pavlica Dahlberg
International Arbitration Vice-President: Lukas Rusch
Litigation
Litigation President: Arnoldo Lacayo
Litigation Vice-President: Rosie Wild
Litigation Vice-President: Chiara Caliandro
Real Estate
Real Estate President: Bernd Hauck
Real Estate Vice-President: Johannes Meyer–Myklestad
Real Estate Vice-President: Christoph Nöehles
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning President: Friederike Henke
Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership and Learning Vice-President: Max Maillet
T.R.A.D.E
T.R.A.D.E President: Benedikt Rohrssen
T.R.A.D.E Vice President: Jelle Bloom
Tax
Tax Law Vice-President: Gertjan Verachtert
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Healthcare and Life Sciences President: Tomás García Navarro
Healthcare and Life Sciences Vice-President: Tímea Halkó
Healthcare and Life Sciences Vice-President: Jan Henning Martens