The Secretary-General of UNIDROIT delivered the first lecture at the 3rd edition of Law Conference of the Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió (CESMAC), with a speech on the Protection of Historic and Artistic Heritage and the Fight against the Traffic of Cultural Property on 18 May in Maceio (Brazil). Welcome addresses were delivered by Dr. João Rodrigues Sampaio Filho (Rector, CESMAC), followed by Dr. Fernando Amorim (Law Faculty Coordinator, CESMAC) . The Conference, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Fernando Sérgio Tenório de Amorim and Prof. Esp. Gislaine Rosalia Migliati, attracted an international audience of about 1,300 people. Prior to the event in Maceio, on 16 May, the Secretary-General visited the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy (Instituto Rio Branco), where he delivered a lecture on UNIDROIT’s Contribution to the Development of Transnational Commercial Law, and held consultations with the Director and staff of the Economic Department of the Ministry of External Relations in Brasilia.
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| From left to right: Dr. João Rodrigues Sampaio Filho (Rector, CESMAC), Prof. Dr. Douglas Apratto Tenório (Vice-Rector, CESMAC), Mr José Angelo Estrella Faria (Secretary-General, UNIDROIT) Prof. Dr. Fernando Sérgio Tenório de Amorim (Law Faculty Coordinator, CESMAC) | From left to right: (seated) Prof. José Pereira Neto; City’s Attorney General, Dr. Diogo Coutinho, representing the mayor of Maceió; Dr. João Rodrigues Sampaio Filho; Prof. Dr. Douglas Apratto Tenório; Prof. Dr. Fernando Sérgio Tenório de Amorim; Pró-Reitora de Graduação e Pós-Graduação Drª. Claudia Medeiros (Pro-Rector, Graduate and Postgraduate Programme, CESMAC), and (standing), Mr José Angelo Estrella Faria (Secretary-General, UNIDROIT) | Shot of seated audience |
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.