Investment dispute prevention and management at the national level

Event Type
Virtual Event

Location / Date
Online, 25.02.2021

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), International Trade Centre (ITC)

This is the 7th of a virtual event series on investment facilitation for development, held in the framework of a joint ITC/DIE project on Investment Facilitation for Development.

The online event will focus on investment dispute prevention and management at the national level. During the event, the following issues will be addressed:

• The function of dispute prevention and management and the various forms it can take.
• Best practices, including specific country examples of setting up dispute prevention mechanisms.
• The importance of conflict prevention and management at the national level and how such mechanisms could be reflected in an investment facilitation framework for development.

Agenda and speakers

Introduction

• Rajesh Aggarwal, Chief Trade Facilitation and Policy for Business, ITC

Moderator

• Axel Berger, Senior Researcher, DIE

Speakers

The function of dispute prevention and management and the various forms it can take

• Priyanka Kher, Private Sector Specialist, Investment Policy and Promotion, World Bank Group

Best practices, including specific country examples of setting up dispute prevention mechanisms

• Carlos Jose Valderrama, Attorney at Law

The importance of conflict prevention and management and how such mechanisms could be reflected in an investment facilitation framework for development

• Valéria Mendes Costa, First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

Concluding remarks

• Karl P. Sauvant, Resident Senior Fellow, Columbia University, CCSI

Hinweis

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