An Update on ICSID and Challenges in Investment Arbitration
Presented by Meg Kinnear, LLB'81, Secretary-General of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Part of the 91黑料网 Dispute Resolution Lecture Series presented by the Private Justice and the Rule of Law research team.
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Accreditation for this training activity (1.5 hours of training) by the Barreau du Qu茅bec as Mandatory Continuing Legal Education is pending.
About the speaker
Since 1999, Ms. Kinnear has been General Counsel (Senior General Counsel from 2006) and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada, a joint legal unit of the Departments of Justice and of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada. In that capacity, she has been responsible for the conduct of all international investment and trade litigation involving Canada.
Ms. Kinnear has also been responsible for the provision of advice on international investment and trade questions as well as legal support for investment and trade treaty negotiations and for the implementation of such treaties. She appeared as counsel before international investment tribunals, participated in the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral investment and trade treaties and advised on Canada's international investment and trade obligations.
In November 2002, Ms. Kinnear was also named Chair of the Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement for the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement. The Administrative Council of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) elected Ms. Meg Kinnear as the new Secretary-General of ICSID in 2009.