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Howard Mann

» Associate & Senior International Law Advisor

Howard Mann was appointed as an Associate and Senior International Law Advisor to IISD in 1998. From 2003-2009, he initiated and managed IISD’s Investment and Sustainable Development program. During this period, Howard has worked with colleagues in advising government officials from over 70 developing countries on international investment law issues, investment treaty negotiations, and the development of sound investment policy from a sustainable development perspective.

Howard was the lead author of IISD's Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development, significant portions of which have been adopted in multiple international investment treaties since it was published in 2005. He represented IISD in its precedent-setting amicus curiae intervention in the NAFTA case between Methanex Corp. v. the United States, the first international investment arbitration to allow interventions by civil society organizations. Through his personal practice, he also represented Canadian municipal governments and civil society groups in the only case on NAFTA’s investment rules heard directly in Canada's Federal Court of Appeal. In recent years, he has served on two Government of Canada advisory committees on international trade and investment law, a special expert panel for the International Commission of Jurists on corporate complicity in human rights violations, and is currently a member of an International Bar Association committee developing a Model Mining Development contract for use in developing countries.

From 1988 to 1993, Howard was a lawyer for the Government of Canada and was actively involved in the negotiation of several international environmental agreements, including climate change and the NAFTA environmental agreement. He also participated in several cases heard in the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1993-1999, Howard maintained a full-time practice in international law, where his clients included the government of Canada, international organizations, national and international non-governmental organizations. Howard has been an Adjunct Professor of international law at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, is widely published in his areas of specialization, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

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