Zimbabwean lawyer to head IBA

Sternford Moyo, Chairman of law firm Scanlen and Holderness, has been appointed the new President of the IBA. The Zimbabwean becomes the first IBA President of African descent in the history of the 74-year-old organisation. Moyo succeeds Brazil’s Horacio Bernardes Neto with a two-year tenure until the end of 2022. He has held numerous senior IBA roles, including: Council Member, Management Board Member, Advisory Board Member and Chair of the African Regional Forum, Deputy Secretary-General for Southern Africa, Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Trustee of IBA-established entities, such as the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and eyeWitness to Atrocities, and member of the Task Force on Illicit Financial Flows, Poverty and Human Rights. Moyo has areas of focus for his IBA presidency. These include developing effective anti-corruption strategies; strengthening IBA project output from constituents to provide ‘role model’ material to improve the practical exercise of law and using digital resources to make the knowledge generated by the IBA more readily available to developing bar associations, lawyers in low-income jurisdictions and those at entry level in high-income jurisdictions.

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