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Ms. Athita Komindr, head of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP), also gave her opening remarks. She identified the positive impacts of ADB and UNCITRAL’s collaboration in introducing legal reforms on international commercial arbitration in the South Pacific, and stated UNCITRAL’s readiness to assist non-member countries. She invited the participants to read UNCITRAL’s digest on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, access cases in the UNCITRAL CLOUT digital case law database, attend upcoming virtual events, cohost an event, and reach out to UNCITRAL RCAP anytime.
Hola! I’m speaking to you from Madrid, and I’m deeply sorry that I can’t be live and in person in the South Pacific. I often think about my engagement with the South Pacific⎯how formative it has been in my life, and how much I have always enjoyed the company of my friends from the South Pacific. So I am sad in a way that I cannot be with you because of the challenges of the period and the world we live in now. None of us will be safe.
Nick Moller is a Principal Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he has worked for fifteen years. He works primarily in corporate and infrastructure finance and also on Law and Policy Reform (LPR) programs for legal reform in several countries.
Baur Konysbayev joined ADB in 2005, and advises primarily on ADB’s sovereign operations. He is currently a team leader on a cross-cutting TA to harmonize legal and regulatory framework for electronic transaction regionally and internationally.
Yashna Shrawani is a counsel in the Office of General Counsel, supporting the East Asia Regional Department and the Office of Public-Private Partnership of ADB. Prior to joining ADB in 2020, she was a Counsel at Trilegal in Mumbai, India working in the banking and finance sector.
Ursula Lagan is a counsel in the Office of General Counsel, specializing in international development financing, covering the Southeast and Central West regions.
Henry Cornwell joined ADB as counsel in 2020, supporting the operations of the Pacific and South Asia Regional Departments. He co-leads ADB’s ‘Legal Toolkit for the Protection of Vital Ecosystems for Climate, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods’ technical assistance, which seeks to understand the region’s binding constraints and best practices in protecting our forests, and develop and proliferate legislative and institutional solutions to slow the pace of deforestation.
Briony Eales is a climate change and environmental lawyer working in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Law and Policy Reform program. She is currently the team leader for judicial capacity building for environmental and environmental law.
Fiona Connell has practiced law in Asia for over 25 years and has extensive experience in both commercial and sovereign transactions in many ADB member countries.
Matthew Baird has over 32 years experience in environmental and planning law in Australia. Matthew was Chair of the Environment and Planning Law Group of the Law Council of Australia from 2008-2012, Australia’s peak body representing the legal profession in Australia. He is a member of LAWASIA’s Committee on Environmental Law and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL).