President: Pierre-Dominique Schupp

Pierre-Dominique Schupp began practising law in 1989 after obtaining a PhD in law. He became an associate and then a partner at Rusconi & Associés. After having been a member of the Disciplinary Commission of the Vaud Bar Association between 1998 and 2001 and then a member of the Council of the Vaud Bar Association between 2001 and 2004, he was elected Vice-President and then President of the Vaud Bar Association between 2006 and 2010. He was then President of the Swiss Bar Association from 2009 to 2015. He became a member of the Swiss delegation to the CCBE in 2016 and worked as an expert in the CCBE Insurance Committee and the European Convention Working Group. In addition to French, he is fluent in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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First Vice-President: Thierry Wickers

Thierry Wickers has been practising as a lawyer since 1978. Between 1990 and 1998, he was a member and then secretary of the Bordeaux Bar Council. Elected President of the Bordeaux Court of Appeal Bar Council in 2000-2001, he then chaired the Conférence des Bâtonniers in 2004-2005 and the Conseil National des Barreaux (CNB) from 2009 to 2011. He is one of the three authors of Règles et Usages de la profession d'avocat, which is, in France, the reference book on the organisation and deontology of the legal profession. He started his cooperation with the CCBE in 2012, first as a member of the French delegation and two years later as head of delegation. He chaired the CCBE Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Services between 2016 and 2022 and also worked as an expert in the Brexit, CCBE Statutes Review and Quality committees and working groups.

Second Vice-President: Roman Završek

Roman Završek, founder and managing partner at the law firm Završek & Šnajder L.L.C. is also the founder of the Association Adria Legal Group. He graduated in 1997 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and specialised in civil and commercial law as well as human rights law. He has performed numerous activities at the Slovenian Bar Association before becoming its President from 2012 until 2021. He has been actively involved in the CCBE work since many years when he became Head and member of the Slovenian delegation to the CCBE in 2012. He has also been chairing the CCBE PECO Committee since June 2020.

Third Vice-President: Alex Tallon

Alex Tallon has been a distinguished member of the Brussels Bar since 1981, and is a founding partner at law firms Praetica and Miles Legal. His practice focuses primarily on commercial law, particularly in regard to the protection of intellectual property rights and market practices, to which he has contributed significantly through a series of publications.

Moreover to his commitment to ethical business practices, Alex Tallon has had a pioneering role in civil and commercial mediation, having been among the first lawyers in Belgium to undergo the training in 1998. His dedication to improving the standards of the legal profession is further showcased by his three-year directorship in charge of deontology at OVB (Association of the Dutch-speaking Belgian Bars), during which he strived to adapt the regulations in order to bring the legal profession in line with the needs of modern society and the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Moreover, Alex Tallon has assumed several key leadership roles, serving as the President of the Brussels Bar (NOAB) and subsequently as the Head of the Belgian delegation to the CCBE for two years. Within the CCBE, he has also previously been an invaluable active member for six years, especially in the Future Committee and in various additional CCBE working groups.