DEVELOPMENT, FDI & INVESTMENT TREATIES IN LATIN AMERICA Tuesday, April 8, 2014 9:00am - 6:00pm Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center Inter-American Development Bank 1330 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington DC
PROGRAM 9:00am-9:25am (25 minutes) Opening Event Welcoming remarks by Nathalie Cely, Ambassador of Ecuador (5 minutes) “The Challenges of Attracting Foreign Direct Investment for Latin America´s Sustainable and Diversified Economy: Lessons Learned from Ecuador,” Nathalie Cely, Ambassador of Ecuador (20 minutes)
9:25am-11:20am (115 minutes) Session I: Globalization, Development, and FDI Moderator: Rogerio Studart, Alternate Executive Director, The World Bank (10 minutes) 09:35-10:00 Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, ‘An overview on the evolution of the global economy and economic development’ (25 minutes) 10:05-10:30 Richard Kozul-Wright, UNCTAD, ‘FDI and economic development in historical perspective’ (25 minutes) 10:35-11:00 Timothy Sturgeon, MIT, ‘"Global Value Chains, Investment, and Compressed Development." (25 minutes) 11:00-11:20 Discussion (20 minutes) COFFEE BREAK 11:20am-11:35am 11:35am-13:30pm (115 minutes) Session II: Investment Treaties Moderator: Mark Bravin, Winston & Strawn LLP, Georgetown University (10 minutes) 11:45-12:10 Kevin Gallagher (Boston University), ‘The political economy of investment treaties’ (25 minutes) 1
12:15-12:40 Gus van Harten (York University), ‘The legal and the institutional dimensions of investment treaties’ (25 minutes) 12:45-13:10 Todd Tucker (University of Cambridge), ‘Recent evolutions in dispute settlement practices in investment treaties’ (25 minutes) 13:10-13:30 Discussion (20 minutes) LUNCH 13:30pm-14:45pm 14:45pm-16:40pm (115 minutes) Session III: Investor-State Arbitration: Experiences and Impacts Moderator: Martins Paparinskis, University College London, (10 minutes) 14:55-15:20 Andrea K. Bjorklund, McGill University “The role of Subsequent agreement and subsequent practice in Investment Treaty Law” (25 minutes) 15:25-15:50 Julian Arato, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University, "Corporations as Lawmakers" (25 minutes) 15:55-16:20 José Daniel Amado, University of Cambridge,“From Investors’ Arbitration to Investment Arbitration”, (25 minutes) 16:20-16:40 Discussion (20 minutes)
BREAK 16:40pm-17:00pm 17:00pm-18:00pm (60 minutes) Session IV Closing Roundtable Cristel Gaibor, Office of the Ecuador’s Attorney General, “Lessons learned in the Chevron Case” (20 minutes) Marco Albuja, Ecuador’s Ambassador to the OAS, UNASUR, Arbitrage Center (20 minutes) Ha-Joon Chang: Looking for synergies in Investment, Trade and Industrial policy. (20 minutes) CLOSING REMARKS Julian Arato, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University (10 minutes)
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