On 12 June 2018 Secretary-General a.i. Professor Anna Veneziano and Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson delivered a joint lecture on the Cape Town Convention and future MAC Protocol to LLM students at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. The lecture was organised by UNIDROIT Governing Council member Professor Jan Neels and focused on the major features and legal operation of the two instruments. During the institutional visit, the Secretariat was also taken on a tour of the University’s main library which is a Depositary Library for UNIDROIT.
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| From Left to Right: Professor Jan Neels, Professor Anna Veneziano and Mr William Brydie-Watson |
Professor Veneziano delivering the lecture |
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.