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Presidential priorities & an exciting year ahead
QUIRINO MANCINI President INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF GAMING LAW
Welcome to the first edition of the IMGL Magazine of 2023, my first as president and the first to feature the new IMGL branding. In my New Year’s message, I highlighted some priorities which I am excited to pursue. First, I would like to establish and expand our presence in emerging gaming jurisdictions worldwide, particularly, but not exclusively, in Asia and Africa. The IMGL Magazine has a part to play in this aim and I encourage members from beyond North America and Western Europe to consider whether you could contribute an article for a forthcoming edition. My second priority is to expand the IMGL’s reach with regulators, policymakers, in-house counsel and industry advisors. We cannot truly claim to be shaping the future of gaming law without numbering more of these important individuals among our membership. I am grateful to Ince, our partners and sponsors of the IMGL ICE reception for engaging with regulators to invite them as guests. I encourage all members to consider doing the same with their clients and contacts. My third priority is to further enhance the IMGL’s educational mission to ensure that gaming and gambling law is recognized as a specialist practice area. You will be able to see this in action at our Spring Conference in Napa in April where the finalists of our first student writing competition will be presenting their work. Reviewing their entries, Kathryn Rand and the members of her education committee found their papers to be topical, knowledgeable and of extremely high quality. I am sure their contributions will enhance our time in Napa as well as being a valuable springboard to their careers. If you have not already done so, I encourage you to book your place for Napa and at our Autumn Conference to
be held in Zurich Switzerland in September.
Finally, I am sure I share with you a desire to work with the media and other stakeholders to redress the often negative image and reputation of our industry. In these pages and in those of future issues you will find data and arguments to counter some of the common false and misleading narratives and to support our industry in making a case for its positive contribution to entertainment and to society in general. These are ambitious priorities, but I am certain that with the solid support of our Executive Committee, and of course, you our members, that we will make great progress across the piece. I look forward to working with you all to strengthen and grow the IMGL in my time as president. I mentioned our rebrand at the outset. it is important to say that this has flowed from the work being done on the new IMGL website which is launching soon. I must thank Ali Bartlett of Bose McKinney & Evans, our executive director Brien Van Dyke, head of publications Phil Savage and the members of the website committee for their excellent work in making this a reality. I Hope you will find the new site more user friendly and a great source of authoritative gaming law content. The IMGL is a unique organization; open, inclusive and collegiate and an ideal forum for making friendships and business contacts. We have an exciting year planned for 2023 and I very much look forward to meeting you in person in Napa, in Zurich and at the numerous masterclasses, receptions and educational events that we have planned.
Quirino Mancini
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IMGL MAGAZINE | JANUARY 2023
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