On 4 July 2019, UNIDROIT had the pleasure of hosting the Italian Arbitration Association’s (AIA) annual conference co-organised with the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR (ArbIT).
The Conference addressed the topic of conflicts and challenges for arbitrators arising from recent trends in decisions. UNIDROIT Secretary-General Professor Ignacio Tirado, Professor Andrea Giardina (President of AIA), and Angelo Anglani (ArbIt Co-Chair), opened the proceedings, which began with a keynote speech by Alberto Fortún, of Partner Cuatrecasas, continued with two panels respectively chaired by Professor Maria Beatrice Deli (Secretary General of AIA) and Gianluca Benedetti (ArbIT Co-chair), and closed by Jacopo Monaci Naldini (ArbIt Co-chair).
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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.