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PANEL 4 

MS. MARTHA HARRISON: Let’s begin. There’s a few more people in the hall, but they will join us shortly. Thank you everyone for making it through to the end of the day, recognizing that in a mere four hours from now, the city will be busy, to say the least. Thanks again, and I want to give advance thanks to fantastic authors and our panelists. My name is Martha Harrison. I’m a partner at the law firm of McCarthy Tétrault. I’m based in Toronto, where I co lead the international trade investment and product regulatory team. And thank you to Todd for inviting me on this panel, I will share a very short anecdote many, many moons ago, almost, I guess, when I was about 192 months pregnant, I got on a plane and went to Washington, and I was one of the authors for one of Todd’s first conferences. It’s a real delight for me to be here full circle with a 17-year-old, and I can’t believe that. Today I’m really excited to introduce our two authors, Dianne Lake, to my right. She’s an associate at Arnold and Porter, and she is going to be, well, we’ll get to the topic in one moment. Ryan Pistorius is an associate at Weintraub Huang in Toronto, and he specializes in international arbitration as well. Jessica Crow, to my immediate right, is an independent arbitrator and an academic and she teaches at the University of Cambridge. We have Ylli Dautaj, who’s a Partner at DER disputes, and also a professor in international arbitration and other similar topics. Janet Walker, who is our middle person there. He is an also an independent arbitrator and Professor of Law, and is, of course, very well known in the arbitration community, and I believe on the line, yes, I see KD, we have Kabir Duggal from Akin Gump, and he has very, very kindly offered at the extreme last second to pinch hit as a speaker. We’re very grateful for that flexibility.