The International Bar Association appoints Madrid Bar member Almudena Arpón de Mendívil as Secretary-General
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Madrid Bar member Almudena Arpón de Mendívil has been appointed new Secretary-General
of the International Bar Association, the world’s leading organisation in the legal
sector which gathers approximately 190 bar associations and law societies from
numerous jurisdictions.
Almudena Arpón de Mendívil, Director of the Corporate Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Group at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, has been a member of the IBA for more than 20 years and has
held the roles of Treasurer and Chair of the Legal Practice Division of the Association.
The IBA Council, of which Ms Arpón de Mendívil has been a member since 2009, elected her
as Secretary-General during the Annual Conference held in Rome in October 2018.
As she declared to the media, for Almudena Arpón de Mendívil “this appointment is an achievement
for the entire Spanish legal sector; it is a high-level acknowledgement of the Spanish legal
practice in its distinct areas: undoubtedly, of the international Spanish legal profession,
but also of its academic, judicial and institutional fields”.
Dean José María Alonso, representing the Madrid legal profession, wants to express the
honour of having this position occupied by a Madrid Bar member, and to send Ms. Arpón
de Mendívil his best wishes to face this new professional challenge.
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