Reference :
V-P-PER-E-01371
Date :
17/09/2009
Caption :
Paulo bernasconi, member of the Assembly of the ICRC
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Paolo Bernasconi was born in 1943 in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1969 he joined the public prosecutor's office in Lugano, which he headed from 1971 to 1986. Since then he has been a practising barrister in Lugano and a partner in the law firm Peter Bernasconi & Partners in Lugano. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since 1986, at the Centro di Studi Bancari in Lugano since 1990, at Bocconi University in Milan since 1996, at the University of St Gallen since 1999 and at the University of Como since 2003. From 1987 to 1989 he was also a visiting professor at the University of Genoa.
Mr Bernasconi has served as a consultant to the UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1990,1992), the Council of Europe (1982, 1995, 1999), the OECD (1996) and the European Commission (2001). He is a member of several federal consultative committees for the revision of Swiss laws and in 2001 he was vice-president of the Permanent Consultative Council of the Swiss Federal Authority against Money Laundering. He is co-editor of two criminal law reviews in Switzerland and Italy and a board member of several European associations and institutes concerned with in ternational cooperation in the fight against money laundering and corruption. Since 2006 he is Chairman of the Arbitration Board of the Swiss Association of Asset Managers; since 1996 Member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International.
Mr Bernasconi was elected to the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1986. Since 1994 he has chaired the ICRC Audit Committee, which oversees the mechanisms and processes of the internal control system in cooperation with the external auditing firm.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
2592x3872
Orientation :
portrait
Colour/B&W :
colour
