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PANEL 3 

DR. TODD WEILER: Hope you all had a good lunch. Our moderator for panel 3, the Honourable Barry Leon served as Presiding Judge of the BVI Commercial Court from 2015 to 2018 and an internationally recognized arbitrator and mediator who is based here in Toronto. Barry, please go ahead. 

HON. BARRY LEON: What I was going to do is introduce the speaker panel, to get them to introduce themselves. 

Why don’t we start with the authors who will be speaking, I was going to suggest that each person say two or three sentences about themselves, relevant to why we’re here. Olivia Kaye? 

MS. OLIVIA KAYE: My name is Olivia Kaye. I am a barrister from London specializing in international arbitration, but primarily investment arbitration. I have quite a mixed background. I’ve represented both states and claimants, and I am here to convince you today that by the end of this administration, Trump will have overthrown two pillars, liberalization and rule of law. 

MS. APHIWAN NATASHA KING: My name is Natasha King. I’m also a barrister, also based in London, out of 4 Pump Court, prior to being at the English bar I worked for a number of years as a dispute settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization, and I think I have issue conflicts on the brain from this morning. For full disclosure, I was involved in the U.S. field and aluminum tariff disputes that were at the WTO under the first Trump administration. So, I’m intimately familiar with these kinds of tariffs. Vigorously.