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ILO100 Geneva 15 – 17 April 2019 SHORT BIOS [email protected] Shinichi Ago is professor of international law at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He holds an LLM from Tokyo University and a PhD from University of Geneva. Professor Ago is currently a member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and also serves as judge at the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal. He is member of the Asian Society of International Law, the International Law Association and the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. shinichi ago [email protected] Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and University of Geneva. He taught at the Institute from 1963 to 2000. He is also Honorary Professor at Cairo University’s Faculty of Law and a Member of the Institute of International Law. Professor Abi-Saab is a former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, a former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), a former Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. georges abi-saab
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Shinichi Ago is professor of international law at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He holds an LLM from Tokyo University and a PhD from University of Geneva. Professor Ago is currently a member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and also serves as judge at the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal. He is member of the Asian Society of International Law, the International Law Association and the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law.
shinichi ago
Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and University of Geneva. He taught at the Institute from 1963 to 2000. He is also Honorary Professor at Cairo University’s Faculty of Law and a Member of the Institute of International Law. Professor Abi-Saab is a former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, a former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), a former Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.
georges abi-saab
José Enrique Alvarez is professor of international law at New York University School of law. He has been a special adviser on interna-tional law to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is a member of the Institut de droit international and of the Council on Foreign Relations, and former president of the American Society of International Law. His over 130 articles and book chapters and six books cover a wide range of subjects within international law, including the law-generating rules of international organizations, the challenges facing international criminal tribunals, the boundaries between ‘public’ and ‘private’ and the legitimacy issues surrounding the international investment regime.
josé enrique alvarez
Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of law at New York University. He was co-founder of the European Society of International Law and of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. He chaired the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for 8 years until 1998, and has subse-quently served as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions (2004-10) and on extreme poverty and human rights (2014-20).
philip alston
Philip Allott is Professor Emeritus of International Public Law, Cambridge University and a barrister (Gray’s Inn). He was a Legal Adviser in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has been a visiting professor at various university Law Schools, especially in the United States. Professor Allott specialises in in UK Constitutional Law, European Union Law, and International Public Law. The main focus of his academic work is the philosophical re-conceiving of the international system as the society of all human societies and of all human beings, and of International Law as the law of that society. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Philip Allott
Giuseppe Barbagallo is currently the President of the ILO Administrative Tribunal to which he was first elected in 2006. He has been a career judge in Italy since 1967 and is the former President of Chamber of the Council of State. President Barbagallo has also taught at the University of Rome, the University of Teramo and the Libera Università degli Studi Sociali.
giuseppe barbagallo
Janice Bellace is professor of legal studies and management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Bellace was a member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations from 1995 to 2010. She was appointed a judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in 2018. Currently, she is the president of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. She is the author of numerous academic books and papers in comparative and international la-bour law. Her recent works focus on globalization and the impact of human rights and international labour standards on expectations for businesses with respect to workers’ rights in global value chains.
janice bellace
Adelle Blackett, Ad. E., is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, and a 2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow. A former official of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Professor Blackett has been an ILO expert both on standard set-ting on decent work for domestic workers leading to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201, and in a labour law reform process in Haiti. She was a Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commissioner (2009-2016) and was recently ap-pointed to the Human Rights Experts Panel of the Canadian Court Challenges program. Widely published, she has co-edited the Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law (Elgar, 2015) with Anne Trebilcock, guest-edited four special law journal issues, and au-thored Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law (Cornell University Press, 2019).
adelle blackett, ad. e.
Nicola Bonucci is the director for legal affairs of the OECD. He joined the OECD in 1993 as a Legal Counsellor, served as Deputy Director from 2000 until becoming Director in 2005. He focuses on general public international law issues, participating in the negotiation of international agreements, interpreting the basic texts of the Organisation, and providing legal opinions to the senior management, the Council, and its subsidiary bodies.
nicola bonucci
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes is professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. She is an Associate Member of the Institut de droit international. Her writings and practice cover various fields such as international economic law, international dispute settlement, international environmental law and the law of international organizations. Professor Boisson de Chazournes has served as consultant and member of groups of experts with various international organizations, including the World Bank, WHO, UN and ILO. In the field of dispute settle-ment she has served as arbitrator in international disputes and has pleaded before the ICJ and other dispute settlement fora.
laurence boisson de chazournes
Pierre Bodeau-Livinec is professor at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense where he teaches public international law, the law of global and European governance and the law of internatio-nal organizations. Prior to becoming a professor, he held numerous positions including in the Legal Affairs Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Professor Bodeau-Livinec research focuses on legal persona-lity in international law, the law of international responsibility, the law of international organizations and international administrative law.
pierre bodeau-livinec
Catherine Brölmann is associate professor of international law at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Brölmann has wor-ked for an extensive period on secondment to the legal division of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for Public International Law of the Netherlands Government. She is co-editor in chief of Oxford International Organizations and an editor on the board of International Community Law Review. Her research interests include law of international organizations, rule-making processes, and international law of natural resources.
catherine brölmann
Maria Virginia Brás Gomes is senior social policy advisor in the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security of Portugal. Ms Brás Gomes was a member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Chairperson (2017-2018). She has studied at the Bombay University and the University of Toulouse. She has published extensively on various aspects of economic and social rights, human rights and development, women’s issues, racism and intolerance.
maria virginia brás gomes
Jean-Michel Bonvin is professor of sociology and socioeconomics at the University of Geneva. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University Paris IV-Sorbonne. His main fields of expertise include comparative social policy, employment and social protection, social and employment policies, sociology of labour and enterprises and theories of justice. He participated in a number of research projects and is the author of numerous publications in these fields, including on the International Labour Organization. Professor Bonvin is also the President of the Association suisse de politique sociale.
jean-michel bonvin
Guy Fiti Sinclair is senior lecturer in public international law at the law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington. He focuses on the law of international organisations, the history and theory of inter-national law, and law and global governance. His research interests also include colonialism and decolonisation in international law, law and development and international economic law. He holds a LLM from the University of Auckland and a JSD from New York University. He is also associate director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law and member of the scientific advisory board of the European Journal of International Law.
guy fiti sinclair
Steve Charnovitz is associate professor of law at George Washington University. He writes on the International Labour Organization, the World Trade Organization, and global environmental governance. Professor Charnovitz serves on the editorial board of the World Trade Review and the Journal of Environment & Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
steve charnovitz
Christine Chinkin is professor of international law and founding Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also an overseas affiliated faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Chinkin is a leading expert on international law and human rights law, especially the international human rights of women and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Professor Chinkin has been a consul-tant or advisor to UN bodies on a range of issues including human trafficking gender-based persecution in armed conflict, peace agreements and gender and violence against women.
christine chinkin
Bruce Jenks is adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a visiting professor at the University of Geneva’s International Organisation MBA program. He holds a PHD from Oxford University. He is a senior advisor at the Hammarskjold Foundation. Dr. Jenks served as Assistant Secretary General at UNDP. He has been actively engaged in UN reform ini-tiatives since 2013. Dr. Jenks was appointed by the Deputy Secretary General to be a member of the Reference Group which assisted her in the UN Development system reform process.
bruce jenks
Laurence R. Helfer is professor at Duke University School of Law and co-director of Duke’s Center for International and Comparative Law. He also serves as a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts: Center of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen. He specializes in the areas of international law and institutions, international adjudication and dispute settlement, human rights, and international intellectual property law and policy. Professor Helfer has authored more than 70 publications and has lectured widely on his diverse research interests. He is also the co-editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law.
laurence r. helfer
Sean Hagan is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He was General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department of the IMF from 2004 to 2018. In this capacity, Mr. Hagan advised the Fund’s ma-nagement, Executive Board and membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its regulatory, advisory and len-ding functions. Mr. Hagan has published extensively on both the law of the Fund and a broad range of legal issues relating to the prevention and resolution of financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on insolvency and the restructuring of debt, including sovereign debt.
sean hagan
Marcelo Kohen is professor of public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is member of the Institut de droit international, and its Secretary General since 2015. He has worked as legal counsel and advocate for a number of States before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and other tribunals. Professor Kohen is the author of many publications in the field of international law, in particular legal theory, territorial, mari-time and border disputes as well as international dispute settlement.
marcelo kohen
Jan Klabbers is professor at the University of Helsinki and deputy director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Professor Klabbers has published several monographs and articles on the law of international organi-zations and the law of treaties.
jan klabbers
Sandrine Kott is professor of European contemporary history since 2004. She has studied History in Paris (PhD in 1990, habilitation in 2001). Her principal fields of expertise are the history of social welfare and labor law in France and Germany since the end of the nineteenth century and labor relations in those countries of real socialism, in particular in the German Democratic Republic. She has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise in utilizing the archives and resources of international organizations and particularly the International Labor Organization. She has published over 100 articles in French, German and American journals and collective volumes, edited 11 volumes and special issues (in French, Polish, German and English) and published seven monographs.
Sandrine Kott
Vitit Muntarbhorn is professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He has helped the UN in a variety of positions, including as former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; UN Independent Expert on Protection against Violence and Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Ivory Coast; member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. Professor Muntarbhorn is member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. He is the recipient of the 2004 UNESCO Human Rights Education Prize.
vitit muntarbhorn
Guy Mundlak is professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the Department of Labour Studies. His research focus on the rela-tionship between labour law and industrial relations at national, comparative and international levels. He seeks to understand how the structure of institutions and processes affect outcomes, particu-larly with regard to values of equality, solidarity, dignity and active democratic participation. His current work focuses on trade unions’ revitalization processes and the freedom of association, negotiations within firms about compliance, and the use of legal agents and ideas to induce social transformation.
guy mundlak
Brian Langille is professor at the University of Toronto. Professor Langille has lectured in many parts of the world on matters of globalization and social justice and also acted as advisor on constitutional and international labour law to the governments of several Canadian provinces and the Canadian Federal Government, and international labour law to the North American Commission on Labour Cooperation and the International Labour Organization. His research activities are in the area of legal theory, charter of rights, law and globalization, international labour law.
brian langille
Louise Otis is an active judge, arbitrator and mediator who specia-lizes in administrative and commercial law. She is also an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. She is President of the administrative tribunal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), President of the ad-ministrative tribunal of the International Organisation of la Francophonie (OIF), and deputy judge of the administrative tribunal of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Ms Otis was member of the Redesign Panel which reformed the administrative system of justice of the United Nations. During her career as a lawyer, Ms Otis practiced and taught civil, labour and administrative law and specialized in the fields of mediation, arbitration and negotiation.
louise otis
Obiora Chinedu Okafor is professor of public international law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has published extensively in the fields of international human rights law and immigration/refugee law, as well as general public international law, especially with regard to third world approaches to international law. Professor Okafor is the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and a former Chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. He has also worked as a consul-tant or adviser for several international organizations, government agencies, parliaments, and law firms.
obiora chinedu okafor
Tonia Novitz is professor of labour law at the University of Bristol. Her research interests focus predominantly on labour law, inter-national and EU law, jurisprudence and legal mechanisms for the protection of human rights. Professor Novitz is currently engaged in research on the protection of labour standards under EU trade law, as well as worker-related issues arising in the context of multi-lateral and bilateral trade agreements.
tonia novitz
August Reinisch is professor of international and European law at the University of Vienna. He is member of the United Nations International Law Commission, associate member of the Institut de droit international and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. His academic writings center on international economic law, inter-national organizations, privileges and immunities, accountability of non-State actors, State succession law and investment arbitration.
august reinisch
Alain Pellet is emeritus professor of public international law at the University Paris Nanterre and former Director of the Centre de Droit International (CEDIN). He is member of the Institut de droit inter-national, President of the French Society of International Law and former member and Chair of the United Nations International Law Commission. Professor Pellet has served as counsel and advocate in more than sixty cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea as well as in several arbitration proceedings concerning investment disputes.
alain pellet
Joost Pauwelyn is professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He specializes in international economic law, in particular trade law and investment law, and its relationship to public international law. He has been appointed on the roster of WTO panellists and as arbi-trator under Free Trade Agreements and the Energy Charter Treaty and frequently advises governments and industry in WTO dispute settlement and investment arbitration. Professor Pauwelyn is the co-editor in chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.
joost pauwelyn
Eduardo Valencia-Ospina is member and current Chair of the United Nations International Law Commission and was notably the Special Rapporteur on the protection of persons in the event of disasters. Prior to being elected at the Commission, he acted as Registrar of the International Court of Justice. In addition to his work with the United Nations, Mr. Valencia-Ospina acted as arbitrator and counsel before the International Court of Justice. He also gave lectures in several uni-versities and taught at the Hague Academy of International Law.
eduardo valencia-ospina
Hélène Ruiz Fabri is professor of international law and Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. She has published extensively in the field of Law and international dispute resolution, and in consti-tutional law. Professor Ruiz Fabri has been a consultant or expert for various international organizations and governmental entities.
hélène ruiz fabri
Miguel de Serpa Soares is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel since August 2013. Prior to his appointment with the United Nations, Mr Serpa Soares served as Director General of the Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal from 2008 to 2013. He has also served as legal adviser to the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union in Brussels from 1999 to 2008, and chief of staff of the Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Territorial Administration from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Serpa Soares has extensive experience of legal and international affairs, having represented his country in various bilateral and multilateral international forums, including the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, the Committee of Public Law Legal Advisers of the Council of Europe and the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of State Parties.
miguel de serpa soares
Santiago Villalpando is the UNESCO Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs since January 2019. He previously served as chief of the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs as well as Registrar of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal. He worked in the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Mr. Villalpando has taught in several universities, is the author of numerous scholarly articles published in leading law journals, covering topics such as inter-national responsibility, international law-making, international adjudication, the law of treaties, international criminal law or the law of international organizations.
santiago villalpando
Erika de Wet is SARChI professor of international constitutional law at the University of Pretoria and honorary professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. She inter alia completed an LL.M. at Harvard Law School and a Habilitationsschrift at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include the powers of the UN Security Council and the use of force, the hierarchy of norms in international law, and the relationship between national and international law.
erika de wet
