Gender Equality Advocate Named First Female President Of International Bar Association In Two Decades

Soon after a 20 12 months hole, the Intercontinental Bar Association has elected its to start with woman president, appropriately reflecting the IBA’s possess research on the have to have for higher gender equality in the authorized occupation.

The new IBA president is Spanish attorney Almudena Arpón de Mendívil y Aldama who is only the second woman in the Association’s 76 12 months record to grow to be president.

The IBA was founded to make a global community of legal professionals and legal associations to encourage justice and security, developed subsequent the start of the United Nations. It now has 80,000 legal professionals and 190 bar associations and law societies across 190 international locations.

Arpón de Mendívil is a company/M&A husband or wife at Madrid legal agency Gómez-Acebo & Pombo heading the firm’s TMT group. She has been 14 yrs on the IBA’s board.

“My aspiration as president of the IBA is to steadily elevate the Affiliation to the future degree,” Arpón de Mendívil explained. “Our profession, by way of a international affiliation as the IBA, has a great opportunity and the accountability of assuming a major position in upholding the rule of law, democracy and human legal rights across the world and therefore acquiring a good effects in culture.” 

The IBA’s annual convention in Miami previous yr emphasised the Association’s energetic help for the rule of regulation.

Approaching gender equality in the law is also a vital concept for her leadership, building on analysis the IBA has completed on the concern of gender equality in the law.

The IBA has promoted a 50:50 BY 2030 undertaking to move girls into senior roles in the occupation and de Mendi stated she prepared to appoint regional ambassadors to boost gender equality, which saw only 30 for every cent of feminine regulation leaders in private follow to be ladies.

Other themes contain highlighting legal get the job done as a suitable player in the environmental, social and governance agenda and human rights defense in the digital environment, which speaks to her history in practice, as effectively as serving to more youthful attorneys put together for their long run in the law profession. 

Jörg Menzer, controlling companion of the Bucharest workplace of pan-European regulation firm Noerr, will provide as secretary-general, getting defeated Minter Ellison companion Peter Bartlett in a contested election.