Claudio Visco

Mr Visco, a senior partner at Italian law firm Lipani Legal&Tax, has succeeded Jaime Carey, senior partner at Chilean law firm Carey.

Widely recognised as one of Italy’s foremost international business lawyers, Mr Visco brings more than four decades of continuous service to the IBA across its key constituencies. His presidency begins at a time of profound challenges to the international legal order, marked by increasing threats to the rule of law, judicial independence and the legal profession worldwide.

He said: “Knowing that I am part of a continuum working to uphold the rule of law, access to justice and the independence of the legal profession fills me with pride, but also with a deep sense of responsibility. We are witnessing unprecedented violations of these fundamental principles in jurisdictions where such developments would once have been unthinkable.”