Professor Mark Feldman has been appointed to the E15 Task Force on Investment Policy, sponsored jointly by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). The Task Force, led by Dr. Karl P. Sauvant, founding executive director and current senior resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment, is made up of distinguished investment and trade law and policy experts from academia, international organizations, and business. The first meeting of the Task Force was held March 23-24 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Task Force is part of the broader E15 Initiative, which aims, through non-partisan expert-led multi-stakeholder dialogue, to generate strategic analysis and recommendations for government, business and civil society geared towards strengthening the global trade system.
Professor Feldman’s appointment to the E15 Task Force on Investment Policy reflects his status as of one the leading scholars of international investment and treaty arbitration. Before joining STL, Professor Feldman served as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the United States Department of State, where he represented the United States in more than a dozen investor-State disputes. He currently co-directs the Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law and serves as a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Academic Council and as a Global Associate of the National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law. Professor Feldman teaches Contracts, International Business Transactions, and Treaty Arbitration in STL’s innovative J.D. curriculum.
