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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Vehbi Aytekin Sanalan has been an international organiser for Ski mountaineering events since 2011 and has collaborated in the organisation of national and international races. Currently, he is a member of the International Relations Commission of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation and a national and international Ski mountaineering referee. He has participated as ski mountaineering instructor in many training programmes for referees and coaches in Turkey. He has become member of the ISMF Council since September 2020.

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Anders Pettersson is a Brazilian and Swedish national with a Masters of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration and with management courses in leading business schools. He was elected President of the Brazilian Snow Sports Federation in 2018. Brazil Team Captain at Olympic Winter Games and at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Brazilian cross country ski champion, sprint masters category. Professional career as chief executive in foreign subsidiaries and family controlled companies in Brazil. Works as a consultant in Corporate Governance. Certified by the Brazilian Corporate Governance Institute (IBGC) and by the Swedish Academy of Board Directors (Styrelseakademien). Currently he is a member of several boards including the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB). He is passionate about sports, particularly winter sports, and outdoor activities.

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Josselin Cazaux is a Naval Architecture and Offshore engineer. He works in several regions around the world, including Europe and Africa. Climber & Skier for more than 30 years, with alpinism experience around the world (Nepal, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentine, etc.), he has an experience of more than 15 years as volunteer in associations from local to national level, including a strong experience as referee on climbing competitions (since 2009, from local to international level), not to mention an experience as referee on ski mountaineering (since 2017). He became member of the FFME in 2006 and was successively President of Morbihan Committee (2008-2011), the Britanny League (2012-2015) and the Region Sud Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur League of the FFME (2016-2020) where he was involved in the development of ski mountaineering. He is member of the FFME Council since 2016 and is actualy Vice-President Competitions (Climbing & Ski-Mountaineering) of the FFME. He has been elected ISMF association member representative in 2022 during the PA in Oviedo (Spain).

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Monika Strojny is a Council member of the Polish Mountaineering Federation and author of the Polish Skimo Youth Group with almost 60 kids and youngsters trained in mountains. She is a national and international ski mountaineering referee, alpine ski instructor and Tatra mountain guide. She organises one of the hardest ultra run in Poland: the Bieg Grania Tatr. She studied journalism at Warsaw University, but then moved to Zakopane to live in the mountains. Monika has been elected member of the ISMF Council in September 2019.

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I started skimo when I was fifteen, along with speleology, climbing and alpinism. In alpinism my biggest succes was summiting Fitz Roy in Patagonia. I started competing in skimo when I was 31 years old, and I compete in World Cup since 2018. I have won two silver and two gold medals at European and World Championshis in sprint. I studied geology at university, obtained PhD degree in environmental science and I work as mountain leader specialised in geology in France. I am a member of VSC Dukla Banska Bystrica, a sport army group in Slovakia.

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Nicolo Ernesto Canclini loves the mountains. Since childhood, he practiced alpine skiing before moving on to ski mountaineering. Having joined the Italian ski mountaineering team as an athlete in 2013, he has won numerous medals in the World and European Championships and in the World Cup circuit (youth categories). Among the seniors, he has achieved several podiums in the World Cup and at the World Championship. Nicolo is a Carabiniere at the Italian Sports Centre and studies law at the university.

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Vice President of Chinese Mountaineering Association (2008-) Team Leader of China Mt. Qomolangma Survey Team (2020) Team Leader of National Sport Climbing Team Team Leader of National Ski Mountaineering Team Team Leader of Mt. Qomolangma Torch Relay Team (2008) Climbing Experience: Mt. Carstensz, 1999 Mt. Kilimanjaro, 1998 Mt. Elbrus, 1997 Mt. Aconcagua, 1994 Mt. Qomolangma, 1993 Mt. McKinley, 1992 Mt.Vinson Massif, 1988 Honors: “National Sport of Honor” – the highest honor to Chinese Athlete-- awarded by the General Administration of Sport of China As Vice President of CMA , The mountain I summited for first time was Mt. Anyemaqen II in 1984. As a professional mountaineer, I summited the highest mountains of 7 continents in the world and reached North and South poles from 1988 to 1999. As a Team Leader of Chinese Mountaineering Team, I took part in the Torch Relay of Mt. Qomolangma in the Olympic Games Beijing 2008; In May of this year, I led Chinese Mt. Qomolangma Survey Team to successfully re-measure the height of Mt. Qomolangma. I was appointed to the Team Leader of National Sport Climbing Team and National Ski Mountaineering Team in 2018.

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An avid outdoor enthusiast, Brent spent many years exploring downhill skiing, telemark, mountaineering and backcountry skiing. He volunteered at his first Skimo race in Canada 🇨🇦 in 2007, and by 2012 attended the ISMF referee course in Crested Butte Colorado. Since that time, Brent has refereed or been Race Director at Canada Cup, North American championship, ISMF World Cup & World Championship Skimo races. As Race Manager for Ski Mountaineering Competition Canada and volunteer with the North American Skimo Council, Brent remains committed to the sport and looks forward to being a part of its growth and development.