2024 General Assembly: New appointments in AIJA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It is with great pleasure that we officially communicate the results of the recent elections held online during the AIJA General Assembly on 7 September 2024, together with the new appointments in the different bodies of our Association approved by the Executive Committee during their meeting on 3 September 2024 and appointments made by the Bureau.

Let’s welcome together the outstanding commitment and essential contribution of these newly elected and appointed Officers!

Bureau

  • Kato Aerts, President
  • Eduardo De la Peña Bernal, Immediate Past President
  • Arthur Stüssi, First Vice-President (newly elected by the General Assembly)
  • Dino Serafini, Secretary General (newly elected by the General Assembly)
  • Caroline Barbe, Treasurer
  • Stefan Müller, Deputy Treasurer (newly appointed by the Bureau)

Extended Bureau

Academic Programme Committee

  • Christian Ritschka
  • Marine Simonnot
  • Chloe Taylor (newly appointed)

Officers of the Commissions Committee

  • Marie Brasseur
  • Michaela Pelinka
  • Rosie Wild (newly appointed)

National Representatives Committee

  • Omar Al Heloo
  • Beatriz del Carmen Cabal Chen (newly appointed)
  • Jakob Nortoft

Human Rights Committee

  • Michel Segers
  • Silvia van Schaik
  • Charlotte Tregunna (newly appointed)

Sponsorship Committee

  • Timothée Giard (newly appointed)
  • Nick Rueter (newly appointed)
  • Sandra Wong (newly appointed)

Sustainability Board

  • Jeroen De Coninck (newly appointed)
  • Carlos del Razo Ochoa (newly appointed)
  • Lisa Urbas

In-House Counsel Board

  • Pia Padfield (newly appointed)
  • Caroline van Straelen (newly appointed)
  • Rebekka Stumpfrock (newly appointed)

SCILL Board

  • Aline von Düring
  • Zoya Gyurova
  • Katarzyna Randzio-Sajkowska
  • José Luis Vega Garrido (newly appointed)
  • Gabriela Vásquez (newly appointed)

Editorial Board

  • Cristina Hernández-Martí Perez (newly appointed)
  • Paulo Nasser (newly appointed)
  • Tom van Amsterdam (newly appointed)

Bar Relations Coordinator

  • Siniša Čolević (newly appointed)

AIJA Women Network

  • Fernanda Pacheco
  • Margherita Stucchi (newly appointed)

Newly elected Executive Committee members

(For a complete list of Executive Committee members, please click here)

Julio Copo
Michael Eitle
Julie Kölzer-Warnecke
Monika Křižánková
Fernanda Machado Moreira
Isabelle Meyer
Julia Pazos
Elena Pintea-Pushkin
Natalija Popović Maksimović
Marco Rostetter
Beatriz Sánchez Argüeso
Neha Saraswat
Marc Schamaun
Rachel Tao
Nikki Vreede
Nathalie Weiss
Archita Mohapatra (2-year mandate)
Adam Salkin (2-year mandate)
Mathieu De Korvin Krokowski (1-year mandate)
Sebastian Wyler (1-year mandate)

Newly appointed AIJA Representatives Worldwide

(For a complete list of Representatives Worldwide, please click here)

National Representatives
Canada: Vanessa Lapointe
Finland: Anu Vuori
Germany: Christoph Allmendinger
Greece: George Gerassimou
Japan: Naoki Kanehisa (1-year extension)
Latvia: Jānis Sarāns-Reneslācis
Luxembourg: Charles Duro
Mexico: Daniela Flores
Norway: Johannes Meyer-Myklestad
Poland: Marcin Wujczyk
Slovakia: Lukáš Michálik
United Kingdom: Elena Kadelburger

Regional Coordinator
Asia-Pacific: Steven Zhou

Local Representatives
Dominican Republic: Polibio Valenzuela
Israel: Hanna Odeh
Uruguay: Mariana Pisón Artagaveytia

Regional Representative
Germany (Bavaria - Munich, Nuremberg): Raffael Fach

Newly appointed Commission Officers

(For a complete list of Commission Officers, please click here)

Antitrust
Vice-President: Fabian Koch

Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
President: Valerio Scollo
Vice-President: Peter Brading
Vice-President: Katarzyna Szczudlik

Business Crime and Civil Fraud
President: Judith De Boer
Vice-President: Noémie Coutrot-Cieslinski

Environmental and Energy Law
President: Eduardo Patricio Bonis
President: Mbula Nzuki
Vice-President: Renzo Roberti
Vice-President: Tobias Woltering

Healthcare and Life Sciences
President: Koen T\'Syen
Vice-President: Marek Holka
Vice-President: Elisa Stefanini

Insolvency Commission
President: Stéphanie Oneyser
President: Armando Perna
Vice-President: Geraldo Fonseca
Vice-President: Philippe Sylvestre

Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
President: Sophie Lens
Vice-President: Evelina Levenson
Vice-President: Luana A. Muniz de Barros

International Arbitration
President: Nadia Ohlhoff-Smahi
President: Jacopo Piemonte
Vice-President: Malviina Linninen
Vice-President: Catherine Penny

International Business Law (+ Sports Law)
President: Gustavo Coelho
Vice-President: Christine Dempe
Vice-President: Daniela Jara

Labour Law (+ Immigration Law)
Vice-President: Clémence Colin
Vice-President: Manuel Ferreira Mendes

Litigation
President: Laura Manz
Vice-President: Michelle Lindholm
Vice-President: Juan J Mendoza

Real Estate
President: Alessia Giaccari
President: Emma Niemistö
Vice-President: Stefan Horn
Vice-President: Devora Kacheva

T.R.A.D.E. (Trade, Retail, Agency, Distribution, E-commerce)
President: Giuliano Stasio
Vice-President: Renato Bucher
Vice-President: Giorgia Carandente

Tax Law
President: Clemens Willvonseder
Vice-President: Anna Piaget