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America's Cup Jury member Gabrielle
Kaufmann-Kohler has been nominated as a candidate
to the Board of Directors of a sponsor to one of
the 12 America's Cup teams. The nomination will
be submitted to a vote of the shareholders at the
general shareholders' meeting in mid-April.
Hence, to avoid any conflict of interest, Gabrielle
Kaufmann-Kohler has made it clear that she will
withdraw from the Jury for the 32nd America's Cup
if elected a member of the Board.
She adds that she would very much regret having
to leave her functions as a Jury member, but that
this move was required to ensure that the Jury remained
a fully independent body.
Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is a partner
with the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer in Geneva,
and Professor of Private International Law, including
international dispute resolution, at Geneva University
Law School. She is a member of the bar of Geneva
and of New York.
Professor Kaufmann-Kohler was the Chair of the Ad
Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sports
(CAS), which included responsibility for the Olympics
in Atlanta 1996, Nagano 1998, and Sydney 2000. She
also chaired the CAS Ordinary Division from 1994
to 2001.
She has acted as arbitrator on ad hoc sports tribunals,
and advised international sports organisations on
matters in connection with sports disputes and sports
dispute resolution. Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler
speaks English, French, German and Spanish.
She is the President of the Swiss Arbitration Association
(ASA) and a member of the International Council
for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). She acts as arbitrator
in international commercial and investment disputes,
and is a member of a number of arbitration panels
including the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC), the International Center for the Settlement
of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the American
Arbitration Association.
She has written many publications related to sports
arbitration, including a book on Arbitration at
the Olympics and many other publications in the
area of international arbitration and litigation
as well as international contracts and electronic
commerce.
Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is a Swiss citizen
living in Geneva with her husband and three children.
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