Our Collective
- An International Network
The Bâtonnières du Monde Collective
Bâtonnières du Monde is an international collective made up of bâtonnières and vice-bâtonnières, currently serving or having previously served in these roles, from bar associations across the four corners of the world.
Founded on the conviction that law is the most powerful lever against discrimination, the collective today brings together dozens of lawyers who have held institutional power - and who have chosen to put their influence at the service of gender equality.
Bâtonnières and vice-bâtonnières, active or former
countries represented across 5 continents
Founded at the Women's Forum
shared conviction: law as a lever for gender equality
The governance
PRÉSIDENT
Vanessa Bousardo
Vice-President of the Paris Bar · 2024–2025
Vice-Presidents
Marie Dupont
President of the Brussels Bar · 2024–2026
Sandrine Giroud
President of the Geneva Bar Association · 2024–2026
Secretary General
Tana Adkin KC
Chair of the Criminal Bar Association of England & Wales · 2023–2024
Treasurer
Sara Kebir
Vice-President of the Lyon Bar · 2023–2024
executive secretaries
Karen Noblinski
Lawyer at the Paris Bar
Benjamin Pitcho
Lawyer at the Paris Bar
Relations & Recruitment
Marie-Aimée Peyron
President of the Paris Bar · 2018–2019
Caroline Larouche
President of the Montreal Bar · 2024–2025
Project Officer
Catherine Claveau
President of the Quebec Bar · 2021–2025
They support us
Our institutional partners
Ordre des avocats du Barreau de Paris
Ordre des avocats du Barreau de genève
Ordre des avocats vaudois
Ordre des avocats du Barreau de BRUXELLES
Join us · Support us
Bâtonnières du Monde belongs to you.
— Join us
You are a bâtonnière, or a vice-bâtonnière.
Currently serving or having previously served in these roles, at the head of a representative institution of the legal profession?
This collective was founded for you — and it can only grow thanks to you. Every voice that joins it broadens its reach, reinforces its legitimacy and brings equality closer to a concrete reality, in every State, in every bar.
— Support us
You share
our convictions.
Whether you are an individual, a company, a foundation or an institution: your support allows us to carry our voice further — within bar associations, institutions and public debates on an international scale.
Get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.