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.
Secretary & Member
Jean-Daniel Baki was born in 1960 and since then has always lived in the Geneva Leman Lac area. Initially graduated from the French Grenoble Academy, he has over 30 years of diversified accounting and management background. He acquired his international experience by serving large corporations as Ralston Purina, Union Carbide and Serono. His strong skills and natural leadership allowed him to successfully transfer in 1994 the Worldwide Financial Consolidation Department of Serono from the USA to Switzerland. He has subsequently been in charge of the Ares-Serono Foundation (1995) and later Finance Director of the Bertarelli Foundation (from 1999 to 2006). He has today a solid knowledge of non profit organizations' philosophy and spirit. He has been also elected by the Geneva Canton to serve as government representative for young financial and accounting apprentices. Jean-Daniel Baki has been married for 26 years, has three children and one grand daughter.