On 24 January 2019, UNIDROIT Secretary-General Professor Ignacio Tirado delivered the inaugural speech of the 15th edition of the International Business Law Masters of the Business and Economics Department of La Sapienza University.
The session was opened by the Director of the Law and Economics Department Professor Daniele Vattermoli, the Director of the Masters Programme, Professor Daniele U. Santosuosso, and its Scientific Coordinator Professor Alessandro Nigro.
Professor Tirado’s lecture was entitled “Rethinking Transnational Law”, in which he provided his vision on the challenges faced by International Commercial Law and the Role of International Organisations such as UNIDROIT.
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rofessor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.