The President of the International Bar Association (IBA), Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama, is travelling from Spain to Kigali, Rwanda to open the Biennial IBA African Regional Forum Conference: future-proofing the African legal profession. The Conference will take place from 13-15 September 2023 at the Kigali Convention Centre, KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda. The President of the Rwanda Bar Association, Moïse Nkundabarashi, and the Chair of the IBA African Regional Forum, Caliis Nii Oman Badoo, will also participate in the opening of an event that has attracted both regional and international speakers.
Organised by the IBA African Regional Forum and the Rwanda Bar Association, and supported by the East Africa Law Society, speakers at the Conference are participating from countries across Africa including Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. International speakers will also participate from countries including France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Across three days, participants can join sessions on topics including climate change and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda; data protection and privacy; making a success of the post-pandemic law firm; technological disruption and training future lawyers.
On 13 September, as part of the Conference, there will also be a Young Lawyers Symposium with sessions tailored to lawyers starting out in the legal profession. Hosted by the IBA African Regional Forum and IBA Young Lawyers’ Committee, sessions will focus on new careers in the law; building a profile in new sectors; entrepreneurship and developing client recruitment, onboarding and retention.
The International Bar Association (IBA), the global voice of the legal profession, is the foremost organisation for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. Established in 1947, shortly after the creation of the United Nations, with the aim of protecting and promoting the rule of law globally, the IBA was born out of the conviction that an organisation made up of the world’s bar associations could contribute to global stability and peace through the administration of justice. (End)