UIAA Management Board
About the Management Board
The Management Board (formerly Committee) came into being with the Articles of Association on 1 January, 2008. Its functions are described in the current Articles of Association.
The Management Board is responsible for implementing all the policy directives and decisions made by the General Assembly. This includes preparing the agenda for the General Assembly and the preparation of the annual accounts.
The Management Board also makes recommendations to the General Assembly about long-term strategies for the UIAA, rules and regulations that are voted on by the General Assembly. This includes the admission of new members, the creation and dissolution and the tasks of Commissions, the appointments of a President of each Commission upon recommendation of the Commission itself, recommendations for any proposed changes to these Articles of Association, recommendations on the terms and conditions of contracts to be concluded with third parties, membership issue and to decide the official means of information of the UIAA.
Members are elected for a four-year period and consist of the Executive Committee, representatives from the five largest member associations, one representative from each continent and three to five representatives elected by the General Assembly. They make recommendations to the General Assembly on matters such as budget and admission/expulsion of member associations. In addition, the Management Board creates projects, oversees the work of commissions, assigns responsibilities and has the power to dissolve commissions.
Management Board Members
As confirmed by the UIAA General Assembly (October, 2023)
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Peter Muir
President
Amit Chowdhury
Vice President
Lode Beckers
General Secretary
Françoise Jaquet
Treasurer
Simon Alden
Member
Martin Lascano
Member
Yongfeng Wang
Member
Peter Muir
President
BIOGRAPHY
On 24 October 2020, Peter Muir became the new President of the UIAA. Muir, elected during the federation’s first ever online General Assembly, is the UIAA’s 14th President (including two Acting Presidents) and the second from Canada.
Peter’s association with the UIAA began in 2014 from when he sat on the Management Committee eventually becoming Continental Representative for North America. He became part of the EB in 2018, initially as General Secretary and then as Treasurer prior to his election as President.
His association with the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) stretches back to 1986 when he joined his local section in Manitoba. A member of the ACC’s national executive committee from 1996 to 2016, Peter held in succession the positions of co Vice–President Activities, Vice-President Access and Environment, Secretary and President.
In his professional career, based in Winnipeg, Canada Peter has practiced law for over thirty years mostly as a commercial lawyer.
Outdoors, as well as his work as a soccer coach, he enjoys traditional rock climbing, backcountry, resort and cross-country skiing, mountaineering, hiking and biking. Peter has received a number of climbing related awards including the Order of the Buffalo-Hut Mantioba in 1992 for the first ascent of Mount Manitoba and in 2015 the AAC’s Wheeler Legacy Award, the highest honour given by the club to its members for outstanding and varied contributions over the years.
Largest Federation Repesentatives
Davide Avagnina
Josef Klenner
Juan Jesus Ibañez Martin
Davide Avagnina
BIOGRAPHY
Davide Avagnina was elected onto the UIAA Executive Committee at the General Assembly in Trabzon in 2023.
An engineer in his professional life, his relationship with the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), a founder member of the UIAA, dates back to 1999. During that time he has held a number of positions for his local branch in Mondovi, the regional branch in Piedmont and for central CAI itself. This includes Head of the Youth Mountaineering Commission, Head of the Mountain Bike Commission, Section President, Section Board Member, Secretary and Treasurer of his local branch and as of 2023, Councilor of the Italian Alpine Club with a focus on avalanche services and international relationships.
He practices a wide range of mountain sports from alpine running to ski mountaineering, mountain biking to mountaineering.
Continental Representatives
Anne Arran
Paul Cartensen
Phil Powers
Stuart Gray
Willy Montenegro
Young Hoon Oh
Anne Arran
BIOGRAPHY
Anne Arran represents the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) on the UIAA Management Committee.
Anne represented Great Britain and was British climbing champion in 1997, competed in the World Speed Championships in Paris that same year and served as the BMC’s National Junior Climbing Team Coach between 2000-2005.
She is a qualified international mountain leader, a former President of the British Association of International Mountain Leaders (BAIML) and has led numerous expeditions in some of the most remote areas of the world.
Anne is a founder member of the UIAA’s Rock Climbing Festival Award Panel. In her professional career, she is Director of Spa Adventure Treks Ltd, a company that specialise in historic escapes and cultural mountain adventures.
Representative Members
Joachim Driessen
Kul Bahadur Gurung
Steve Long
Jean Miczka
Stein Tronstad
Joachim Driessen
BIOGRAPHY
Joachim Driessen has sat on the UIAA Management Committee since 2017. He brings a wealth of management experience in the international sport sector having served as the President of the Royal Dutch Climbing & Mountaineering Club (NKBV), one of the largest and most active UIAA member associations, for nearly ten years,
Joachim also is a member of the Dutch Olympic Committee and sat on the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Broadcasting Company VARA between 2010-2013.
He was the co-founder of Blink Media, an innovative educational and magazine publisher and runs his own advisory practice Acletta Management.
Having studied business economics at the University of Amsterdam, Joachim obtained an MBA in Leadership and Sustainability from the University of Cumbria
Unit Member
Representation
Silvio Calvi
Silvio Calvi
BIOGRAPHY
An engineer and architect by profession, Silvio Calvi is the MB representative for the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF), a UIAA Unit Member.
Silvio has a wealth of experience particularly in the governance of climbing and mountaineering organisations. He served as President of the Bergamo section for the Italian Alpine Club (CAI), a UIAA founder member, and was later chairman of CAI’s Central Committee at a key juncture for the federation, the reform of its internal AoAs (2001-2007). This was a role that made Silvio a valuable member, and chairman, of a UIAA Working Group focusing on the change of its own statutes from 2007-2008.
Silvio has supported the ISF as an advisor since its creation in 2008, has been its Vice President since 2015 and has played an instrumental role in the ISF becoming a Unit Member of the UIAA and in the successful collaboration between the two federations ever since.
In his professional career, Silvio has been dedicated to promoting projects for the preservation of architectural heritage in mountain areas in Georgia.