President
Olivier Dunant is a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Methodist Law School (Dallas, Texas). He is also member of the Geneva Business Law Association, the Swiss Lawyers Federation, the Geneva Bar Association and the Suisse Romande Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Olivier Dunant is General Honorary Consul of Norway since 1986.
Olivier Dunant focuses his practice on banking, finance and securities law, commercial and business law, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, trusts & estates and international taxation. He is the legal counsel and trustee of families living in the United States and in Europe. He is a board member or trustee of several charitable or philanthropic organisations, including the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He is also member of the board of directors of Swiss and foreign finance and banking organizations.
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Sophie Caillat was born in 1982 in Basel (Switzerland). She graduated from Geneva Law School in 2007, after having spent one academic year at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain. Sophie Caillat made her two years Bar Training at Borel & Barbey Law Firm, in Geneva, and was admitted to the Bar of Geneva in 2010.
She had her first experience as a lawyer in the pharma field , particularly as legal support, advising on the Swiss Labour Law and Commercial Law as well as on International Distribution Law.
Since November 2010, Sophie Caillat is an associate of the Law Firm Ducrest Heggli Avocats LLC, in Geneva, where she practices in all areas of Swiss Law with an emphasis in Litigation.
She is member of the Swiss Lawyers Federation and the Geneva Bar Association.
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Maria Grazia Calí was born in Rome in 1960. She has acquired a long experience in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. She joined the Serono Pharma Company in 1979 working in communication and organization of International conferences at a worldwide level for the medical community.
Her strong leadership capabilities permitted her to launch, already in the early 1980s, CME (Continuing Medical Education) programs in the USA and in Europe, which allowed her to acquire a very strong knowledge in medical education. Since then Maria Grazia Calí has established a proven track record of excellence in congress management and medical education worldwide and has developed an international network with acknowledged academics in various scientific fields. Maria Grazia Calì is Italian and has two daughters.
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Jean-Marie Hainaut was born in 1967 in Geneva. He graduated from the Geneva University, in Law in 1989, and in Economics in 1992. He passed the bar exam in Geneva in 1994.
He joined Arthur Andersen in Geneva in 1994 and worked there until 1999 as tax advisor for corporations and individuals. In 1998, he obtained the diploma of Swiss certified tax expert. In 1999, Jean-Marie Hainaut started with Lombard Odier & Cie, private bankers in Geneva. He has been leading the tax and legal consulting department for private clients until now. He is predominantly working for an international clientele and focuses on the wealth transmission and structuring. In this context, he has been advising several Swiss and non-Swiss clients willing to implement a personnalized charitable project.
Jean-Marie Hainaut is exercising the function of assessor judge for the Geneva First Instance Administrative Court in fiscal matters. He is member of the International Fiscal Association. He is regularly lecturing at the Swiss tax academy.
