Investment Treaty Conference 2025

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Shane Spelliscy

Trade Law Bureau at Global Affairs Canada

Director General and Senior General Counsel

Description

Shane Spelliscy is currently the Director General and Senior General Counsel of the Trade Law Bureau of the Government of Canada. As the Director General and Senior General Counsel, he is the Government’s most senior international trade lawyer, responsible for all international trade related legal advice. He joined the Trade Law Bureau in 2008. He has provided advice on Canada's obligations under its trade and investment treaties and served as counsel in trade and investment treaty negotiations and disputes. He has acted as Canada’s delegate at UNCITRAL since 2008, including with respect to the revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the development of the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency, and the negotiation of the Mauritius Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based ISDS. In November 2017, he was elected by the Member States of UNCITRAL as the Chair of Working Group III, which has been tasked with considering possible reforms in the field of ISDS.
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