GLOBE Centre’s Visiting Fellow, Dr Lorenzo Cotula, who is Princiapl Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and GLOBE Centre Director, Dr Celine Tan, Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, have published a new blog on 'Public-Private Partnerships and Aid's 'Private Turn': Addressing the Investment Law Dimensions' as part of their larger project on regulating Aid Investments in Development (RAID), conducted with the assistance of Chris Tassis, PhD candidate at Warwick Law School. The blog argues that private turn in development policy and practice brings development finance into closer contact with global economic governance instruments typically associated with commercial activities, including international investment agreemements. It creates new challenges for the interface between development policy and the law governing foreign investment, ultimately affecting the extent to which public action can advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Associate Professor Markus Wagner convened a panel of experts to discuss the impact of Brexit on the UK’s trade and investment landscape on Thursday, 14 September 2017.

We are pleased that Dr Lorenzo Cotula’s research fellowship has been extended for another three years. We look forward to our continued academic and policy collaborations.