On 27 and 28 March 2017, Deputy Secretary-General Professor Anna Veneziano participated in the 2nd Academic Workshop: Best Practices in the field of electronic registry design and operations, co-organised by CLC Harris Manchester College and UNIDROIT. The Workshop garnered the participation of leading experts from inter-disciplinary fields, including academia, industry, practitioners and registrars, whose work has made significant contributions in the field of electronic registry design and operation.
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Group Photo of Workshop participants.
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.