UNCTAD ad hoc Expert Group Meeting on "Consolidation of International Investment Agreements: Disentangling the Spaghetti Bowl?"

Preliminary Programme

Thursday, 8 September 2011

13:00  Opening Statement

Mr. James Zhan, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

13:10   Introduction: A summary of UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2011

Ms. Elisabeth Tuerk, Legal Expert, International Investment Agreements Section, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

13:45  RECENT EFFORTS AIMING AT CONSOLIDATING REGIONAL INVESTMENT RULES

Moderator:

Mr. Roberto Echandi, Director, Program on International Investment, WTI

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Regional FTAs with third parties

Prof. Vivienne Bath, Associate Professor, University of Sydney

Prof. Michael Ewing-Chow, Head, Trade Law & Policy, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

The Trans-pacific Partnership agreement: Ongoing negotiations

Mr. Carlos Herrera, Private Investment Promotion Agency (PROINVERSION),

Peru [TBC]

Mr. Felipe Sandoval, Former Chief Negotiator of Chile for services of the TPP

negotiations and Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Chile to the WTO

15:15  Open discussion

15:30  RECENT EFFORTS AIMING AT CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT RULES (cont’d)

Moderator:

Prof. Andrea Bjorklund, US Davis School of Law, University of California

The Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA)

Mr. Xavier Carim, Deputy Director-General, Department of Trade & Industry,    

South Africa

Mr. Thierry Mutombo Kalonji, Senior Investment Promotion Officer,       

COMESA

The European Union new international investment policy

Prof. Rudolph Dolzer, Institute of International Law, University of Bonn

Prof. Peter Muchlinski, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of         London

17:00  Open discussion

Friday, 9 September 2011

09:00     SYSTEMIC EVOLUTION OF THE ISDS SYSTEM

Presentation of the consolidated report: “Conversations on Improvements to the International Investor-State Dispute Settlement System (ISDS)”

Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret, Senior Legal Advisor, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

Moderator:
Prof. Susan Franck, Associate Professor, Washington & Lee University Shool of Law
   
Discussants:
-    Mr. Barton Legum, Partner, SCP Salans & Associes
-    Mr. Daniel M. Price, Principal, Daniel M. Price PLLC
-    Prof. August Reinisch, University of Vienna [TBC]
-    Ms. Katia Yannaca-Small, Legal Advisor on International Investment Law
      Investment Division, OECD

11:15  Closing remarks
           Mr. James Zhan, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

11:30  End of meeting