Between 15-17 February 2020 UNIDROIT participated in several APEC-related meetings in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
On 15 February Senior legal Officer William Brydie-Watson presented on “UNIDROIT instruments that support access to credit” at a Workshop for APEC Member Economies on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index. The presentation focused on how the Cape Town Convention and its Protocols (including the recently adopted MAC Protocol) could facilitate access to credit in the Asia-Pacific region. UNIDROIT has been granted formal Guest Status with the APEC Economic Committee for the period 2020 – 2022.
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.