COLIN BROWN Deputy Head of Unit Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Directorate-General for Trade European Commission

COLIN BROWN Deputy Head of Unit Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Directorate-General for Trade European Commission

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law MR. COLIN BROWN Deputy Head of Unit Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy Directorate-General for Trade European Commission Colin Brown is a lawyer and Deputy Head of Unit of Unit F.2 - Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. He advises on a range of trade and investment issues. He leads the team of lawyers working on investor-state dispute settlement in the trade and investment policy of the European Union. He has been responsible for developing the EU’s approach to investor- state dispute settlement, led the negotiations on this issue with Canada; was the EU delegate to UNCITRAL during the preparation of the transparency rules; and is responsible for the Regulation on Financial Responsibility for investor-state dispute settlement. In his career with DG TRADE he has worked on all legal aspects of the work of the European Commission in the field of trade, in particular on EU FTAs, in providing advice on EU legislation and on WTO matters. He leads a team of lawyers working on the EU-US negotiations (TTIP). Before joining DG Trade in October 2006 he worked for 6 years for the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he litigated WTO and EU law cases. He has been chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty since January 2004. He is visiting lecturer in WTO law at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium since 2009. He holds an LLB (first class Honours) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Diploma in International Relations from the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe, Bruges. www.un.org/law/avl .

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