Executive Director and General Counsel, SCAI
Geneva
Trilingual French, German and English, Caroline grew up and studied in Switzerland, in Vienna (Austria) and in Boston (USA). She worked in large Swiss law firms in Geneva (Python & Peter) and Zurich (Bär & Karrer), in the Geneva Administrative Court, in a multinational company (SGS), and then took her career to a new level by acting as Executive Director and General Counsel of the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (SCAI).
Admitted to the New York and Geneva bars, she had among the best teachers in Pierre Tercier in contract law, William Park in arbitration, and Eric Green in mediation. She has then herself spoken at numerous conferences and academic programmes on the role of the in-house counsel in dispute resolution processes and on the efficient use of arbitration and mediation as complementary tools.
In her capacity as in-house legal counsel, she has assisted SGS and its affiliates in their contract and claims negotiations and represented them in mediation, commercial and investment arbitration, as well as in litigation in various jurisdictions and under various dispute resolution institutions, notably SCAI, ICC, ICSID and LMAA. Given her strong business and risk management acumen, Caroline has also been managing business development projects for the SGS Minerals Business and, in 2013, was promoted to join the SGS Strategic Transformation team to lead a global digitalization project.
Caroline is a member of the board of a hotel management group and acts as co-President of the Association of International Business Lawyers in Geneva region (www.aibl.ch). She acted for around 10 years as Country Representative for Switzerland of the Association of Corporate Counsel (www.acc.com) and for 2 years as a Board Member (Treasurer) of the ACC European Chapter.
