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Institute of Banking and Finance Law

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Regional Development Banks: Innovations in Investment and Finance

25 March 2019

Time: 1:30 - 4:00pm
Venue: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Room 3.1, Northgate House, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3JB


An inaugural event convened by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL).

BIICL Director, Prof Spyros Maniatis, will chair the event and the discussion will be moderated by Prof Rosa Lastra and Prof Malik Dahlan.

Tom Fearnley, Investment Director of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) will talk about Norwegian investment strategy, the SWF landscape and long-term considerations in management and investment decisions. Natalie Lichtenstein, former General Counsel of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will talk about the role of development banks in particular in Asia.

Prof Lastra and Prof Dahlan will guide the Q&A discussion focusing on the need to develop global standards in the field beyond the Santiago principles.

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