Members of the ICA Cooperative Law Committee (2024-2028)

Members are legal experts appointed by the ICA Global Board upon the recommendations of the ICA Regional Boards. The Chairperson is appointed by the ICA Global Board.

Chair

Prof. Hagen Henry
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law, University of Helsinki and Research Director at the Ruralia Institute (Finland)

Head of the ILO Cooperatives Unit (2007-2011)

Members

Dr. Alphonce Mbuya 
Assistant Professor of Law at Moshi Cooperative University (Tanzania)

Dr. Ajbola Anthony Akanji Esq.
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Nigeria; Lecturer at the Lead City University, Ibadan (Nigeria)

Dr. Ann Apps
Retd. Lecturer at Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle (Australia)

Prof. Dante Cracogna 
 Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Prof. David Hiez
Professor of Civil Law at the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) 

Dr. Ifigeniea Douvitsa 
Adjunct Faculty of Sobey School of Business, ICCM, Saint Mary's University (Greece)

ICA Board Liaison Members 

Mr. Giuseppe Guerini
President, Cooperatives Europe; Vice-President, ICA

Ms. María Eugenia Pérez Zea
ICA Board Member; President of the Colombian Cooperative Lawyers Association - COOLEGAS

Secretariat 

Santosh Kumar Padmanabhan LL.M (UNITO; ITC-ILO, Italy)
Director of Legislation, ICA. Kumar@ica.coop; legislation@ica.coop