From the program:
Issues linked to lack of transparency and authenticity are undermining trust and credibility art market. At the same time the legal and regulatory framework within which art businesses required to operate is evolving and becoming increasingly complex.
The Responsible Art Market Initiative (RAM) has been formed in response to these developments. RAM’s mission is: “To raise awareness amongst Art Businesses of risks by the art industry and provide practical guidance on establishing and implementing responsible practices to address those risks.”
Join us to celebrate the launch of this important and exciting initiative and the publication RAM’s Guidelines for Countering Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Threats, a series of guidelines for art market practitioners.
14:00 Registration
14:30 Welcome & opening remarks
Pierre Gabus, Lawyer and President of the Art Law Foundation, Geneva
Thomas Hug, Director of artgenève and artmonte-carlo
14:40 Part 1: What is the Responsible Art Market Initiative?
Anne Laure Bandle, Lawyer and Co-Director of the Art Law Foundation, Geneva
Sandrine Giroud, Lawyer and Co-Director of the Art Law Foundation, Geneva
15:00 Part 2: Self-regulation in the art market - A panacea to all ills?
Interactive panel discussion with the following experts
Chair: Marc-André Renold, Lawyer, Director of the Art Law Center and Professor, University of Geneva
Ursula Cassani, Professor, University of Geneva
Sylvia Furrer Hoffmann, Managing Director, The Swiss Art Market Association
Riccardo Sansonetti, Head of the Financial Crime section, State Secretariat for International Finance, Bern
Simon Studer, Simon Studer Art, Geneva
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Part 3: Countering money laundering and terrorist financing threats - What role for the art market?
Interactive panel discussion with the following experts
Chair: Mathilde Heaton, Lawyer and Art Law Consultant, Art Law Advisory
Céleste Cornu, Anti-corruption specialist, Aix en Provence
Jean-Bernard Schmid, Public prosecutor, Ministère Public, Geneva
Rakhi Talwar, Christie’s, Head of Compliance, London
Ralph Wyss, Partner, Deloitte Forensic, Zurich
17:15 Conclusions
17:30 Close
