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5. December 2016
UNIDROIT hosts symposium on Luxembourg Rail Protocol
5th December 2016
UNIDROIT hosted a special symposium on the Luxembourg Rail Protocol on 30th November.
The event was open to government officials and included presentations from the Secretary General of OTIF, Mr. François Davenne, the Secretary General of UNIDROIT, Mr. José Angelo Estrella Faria as well as the two co-chairs of the Preparatory Commission, Peter Bloch and Mervi Kaikkonen. Elizabeth Hirst, the Registrar Designate, as well as RWG Chairman Howard Rosen, also made presentations and Howard Rosen also chaired a panel session on the benefits of the Protocol which included presentations by Olivier Desfontaines, the Head of Rail Finance at Crédit Agricole and Roberta Odoardi, a rail specialist from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
