Sep
23
Wed
2020
International Suite Talk Featuring Charles Di Leva, The World Bank’s Chief Officer for Environmental and Social Standards
12:00PM
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01:00PM
Join us to learn about global environmental and social policy compliance and risk management, climate finance and development, and the development and implementation of multilateral environmental agreements and national law. Mr. Di Leva previously worked as the World Bank's Chief Counsel Environmental and International Law; Director of the Environmental Law Center of IUCN – The World Conservation Union, in Bonn, Germany; Trial Attorney with the U.S. Justice Department, Environment and Natural Resources Division; Senior Counsel with the Rhode Island Department of
Environmental Management and as Environmental Advocate for the RI Attorney General. He also served as Senior Program Officer with the Environmental Law Unit for UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya and in private environmental law practice in Washington D.C. Mr. Di Leva is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law teaching Trade and Sustainable Development and an adjunct at the American University Washington College of Law where he taught Project Finance and the Environment.