ISMF

Bureau

President

MEIER, Regula



Profile

Regula Meier has a degree in Special Education and in Management Non-Profit/Association Management. Currently, she is the Director of an Institute for people with disabilities in Zweisimmen, Switzerland. Her experience in ski mountaineering developed as follows: since 2007 she has been working in various functions for the SAC-CAS in the area of ski mountaineering competitions (referee, technical delegate, contact person for international races). Afterwards, in 2014, she has become an international referee. Later, since 2017 she has been working also on the international races as President of the Technical Jury and in 2020 she has been appointed on the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Villars-sur-Ollon. Since June 2017, she is Member of the ISMF Council, President of the ISMF Anti-doping Commission and three years later she became Vice-President Finance. She has also obtained the Plussport certification course in skiing with blind and visually impaired persons. Recently, she got the role of ISMF President.

Vice-President Treasurer

MOORE, Jim



Profile

Jim Moore is a former partner at a global financial firm, who built and ran international operations at a technology company and founded his own merchant bank that specialised in cross-border financing. He has worked in several regions around the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America. For the last 19 years he has also been involved in land conservation and sustainable agriculture. Jim grew up in Colorado and skied and climbed mountains from a young age. He has competed in trail racing, ski mountaineering, triathlons, quads, and open water swimming. He is a Board Member of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA) which governs competitive ski mountaineering racing in the US. He is also on the board of trustees at the World Affairs Council. Jim has a graduate degree in finance from Columbia University in New York City and an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder where he ran varsity track.

Vice-President Sport & Events

DUPONT, Pierre



Profile

Since 1980, Pierre Dupont has joined the military academy of high mountain of Chamonix (France). In 1994, with some friends he created a ski mountaineering race: the Ubaye. He became a member of the FFME in 2001 and in 2007 was elected President of the club Team Ecrins Haute Alpes. Since then, he organises national and international races. He is a member of the Council since 2015 and in 2019 he has been elected Vice-President Sport & Events.

Vice-President Marketing & Communication

COOPER, Ramone



Profile

Ramone is an experienced sport professional and Olympic athlete, coach and performance manager. Based in Switzerland, Ramone is currently Director of Education Services at the World Academy of Sport where he leads the implementation of bespoke learning and development programs across a range of international sport and major event organisations. He is the Chef de Mission of the Gangwon 2024 Australian Youth Olympic Team, a role that he also undertook for the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020. Ramone has been involved with all Australian Winter Olympic and Youth Olympic Teams since 2010 and was previously the National Pathway and Program Manager for Snow Australia. He is currently a member of the Snow Australia Ski Mountaineering Discipline Committee, responsible for the establishment and growth of Ski Mountaineering in Australia. Ramone has held several sport leadership positions, including Deputy Chair of the Australian Olympic Committee Athletes Commission, Executive Board Member of the Victorian Olympic Council and member of the High-Performance Advisory Committee of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia. Prior to his career in sports administration, Ramone was an elite freestyle skiing athlete, representing Australia at the Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver 2010 in mogul skiing.

General Secretary

CANALS, Jordi



Profile

He is ski mountaineering Instructor since 1976 at the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya and Ski mountaineering instructor of the ENAM (National School of High Mountain) and of the ECAM (Catalonian School of High Mountain) since 1981. He is sports technician of 1st level in high mountain since 2005, ski mountaineering National Referee since 1998 and ski mountaineering International Referee since 2001. He made several expeditions to Himalaya (Everest, K2, Manaslu, Broad Peak), Pamir and Andes and got 53 podium places in international and national skimo races from 1978 to 1990. He has been the organiser of the race of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya at the Tuc de Mulleres (from 1982 to 1987) and Ski Mountaineering Sports Director of FEDME from 1994 to 1997. In addition, he has been Director of the Centre de Tecnificacio Esqui de Muntanya de Catalunya (FEEC) from 1997 to 2015 (actually Consultant) and Adventure Guide Instructor in Campus Kujalleq (Ilulissat, Greenland) in 2016 and 2017. He has been member of the Technical Commission for CISAC from 1995 to 1999, Technical Delegate for CISAC in the European Championships of 1997-98-99, Technical Delegate for ISMC-UIAA in the European Championships in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and in the World Championship in 2002. He has been Technical Director for ISMC-UIAA from 2000 to 2003 and ISMC's Sports and Development Director from 2003 to 2007. He is Technical Advisor for the ISMF from 2013, skimo and International Referee Courses instructor in Argentina, Chile, Japan, China, Iran, Turkey, Canada, Kamchatka (Russia), Wyoming, Utah and Colorado (USA). He has been Technician in the Spanish Ski Mountaineering Team from 2014 to December 2017. He has been member of the ISMF Technical Group from 2018 to October 2021 and Technical Delegate in the Andorran World Cup and in the World Championships in Villars-sur-Ollon (Switzerland) in 2019 and at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. He is the ISMF General Secretary since October 2021.