Pierre Horna -Masters school, MSU Law
The topic of webinar is: «International economic cooperation in a time of Pandemic and after it» Dr. Pierre Horna (UNCTAD Secretariat) The webinar was held July 4 2020 at 11:00 am (Moscow time). Description What is the global outbreak of COVID-19 and it's impact across jurisdictions? We will discuss legislation challenges, e.g. employee-employer labour relations, insurance of losses, international trade, and communication which COVID-19 gets us to face. Speaker Dr. Pierre Hornа (UNCTAD Secretariat) - Legal Affairs Officer Competition and Consumer. Dr. Horna is a Legal affairs official at the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2003. He has been responsible for the design, formulation and implementation of technical assistance and capacity building programmes on competition and consumer protection laws and policies. In particular, His regional focus of work at the UN has been select newer and small competition and consumer protection authorities in developing countries and economies in transition in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Balkan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Latin American regions. Dr. Horna has drafted several reports on international cooperation on competition law issues, with emphasis on cartel enforcement in newer and small competition regimes. In addition, Dr. Horna has actively assisted governments and policymakers in the design and implementations of competition and consumer protection policies regimes, in particular anti-cartel regulations in emerging markets and small economies. He is a regular speaker at international forums such as the International Competition Network (ICN), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other international and regional forums. He has been part of capacity building activities for competition and consumer protection officials as well as judges and prosecutors in different jurisdictions, in particular in the Latin American and ASEAN regions. Dr. Horna was a visiting Research Fellow at Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Institute of European Comparative Law of the Law Faculty at Oxford University during 2017. From January to June 2017, he was also a Senior Associate at Pembroke College. His area of research at Oxford is "Cross-Border Cartels in Emerging Markets." Dr. Horna earned his PhD Degree in International Law at the Graduate Institute, Switzerland with a Summa cum laude thesis entitled: “Cross Border Cartels in Latin America: A Transnational Competition Assessment” (2009-2013, 2017). He earned his Master of Laws in International Business Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands, with a thesis on the developmental dimension of expanding WTO covered agreements into Competition Policy (2002-2003), and also undertook studies on e-commerce and consumer protection at Buckingham University, England (2001). His latest book entitled « Fighting Cross-Border Cartels: The Perspective of the Young and Small Competition Authorities” has been recently published by Hart-Bloomsbury (Oxford, UK)
The topic of webinar is: «International economic cooperation in a time of Pandemic and after it» Dr. Pierre Horna (UNCTAD Secretariat) The webinar was held July 4 2020 at 11:00 am (Moscow time). Description What is the global outbreak of COVID-19 and it's impact across jurisdictions? We will discuss legislation challenges, e.g. employee-employer labour relations, insurance of losses, international trade, and communication which COVID-19 gets us to face. Speaker Dr. Pierre Hornа (UNCTAD Secretariat) - Legal Affairs Officer Competition and Consumer. Dr. Horna is a Legal affairs official at the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2003. He has been responsible for the design, formulation and implementation of technical assistance and capacity building programmes on competition and consumer protection laws and policies. In particular, His regional focus of work at the UN has been select newer and small competition and consumer protection authorities in developing countries and economies in transition in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Balkan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Latin American regions. Dr. Horna has drafted several reports on international cooperation on competition law issues, with emphasis on cartel enforcement in newer and small competition regimes. In addition, Dr. Horna has actively assisted governments and policymakers in the design and implementations of competition and consumer protection policies regimes, in particular anti-cartel regulations in emerging markets and small economies. He is a regular speaker at international forums such as the International Competition Network (ICN), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other international and regional forums. He has been part of capacity building activities for competition and consumer protection officials as well as judges and prosecutors in different jurisdictions, in particular in the Latin American and ASEAN regions. Dr. Horna was a visiting Research Fellow at Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Institute of European Comparative Law of the Law Faculty at Oxford University during 2017. From January to June 2017, he was also a Senior Associate at Pembroke College. His area of research at Oxford is "Cross-Border Cartels in Emerging Markets." Dr. Horna earned his PhD Degree in International Law at the Graduate Institute, Switzerland with a Summa cum laude thesis entitled: “Cross Border Cartels in Latin America: A Transnational Competition Assessment” (2009-2013, 2017). He earned his Master of Laws in International Business Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands, with a thesis on the developmental dimension of expanding WTO covered agreements into Competition Policy (2002-2003), and also undertook studies on e-commerce and consumer protection at Buckingham University, England (2001). His latest book entitled « Fighting Cross-Border Cartels: The Perspective of the Young and Small Competition Authorities” has been recently published by Hart-Bloomsbury (Oxford, UK)