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Effects of Investment Treaties in the Global South

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Speaker

  • Lori Wallach
    Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

Presider

  • Terra Lawson-Remer
    Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy, Council on Foreign Relations

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, discusses investment treaties, their implications for policies to promote financial stability and sustainable use of natural resources, and the flaws of the arbitration system used by investors and nations to settle conflicts, with a focus on the global south.