Events

The 2025 Executive Training Brochure is available for download here.

Governments around the world are facing complex and pressing issues relating to their international investment treaties. Investor-state arbitrations based on those treaties are on the rise, involving ever-more novel and wide-ranging claims, and often claiming staggering sums in damages. Negotiations of new treaties continue, with many of these agreements being unprecedented in terms of the issues they seek to cover and the complexity of their provisions. States are also facing significant questions about what to do with their stocks of existing investment treaties, many of which no longer reflect the states’ treaty policies and practices, their development objectives, or their human rights or environmental obligations.

Against that background, there is an important need for officials in all branches and at all levels of government to learn about and stay up to date on new developments in investment treaty practice, and investment governance more generally, and understand what those developments mean for them in their respective roles. This program aims to fill that need, and is aimed specifically at addressing states’ objectives, opportunities and challenges facing governments in treaty reform, and other approaches to investment governance, including dispute prevention and alternatives to ISDS.

Through this virtual program, government officials will increase their knowledge of the international investment law and policy landscape, better equipping them to deal with this complex and ever-evolving field with wide ranging implications for myriad areas of law and policy, and direct consequences for host-state liability.

When and how will the training be delivered?

The sessions took place live on Zoom from September 8-12, 2025 from 9:00am - 11:30am EDT. They were hosted as a combination of lectures, Q&A, and guided discussions. The program syllabus and background materials were available through the Canvas course platform. Sessions were taught by leading academics and practitioners and were tailored to uniquely address issues relevant to governments.

Who should attend?

The program is designed for public sector officials whose responsibilities relate to investment treaty negotiation or investor-state arbitration.

Scholarships & Sponsors

Past support for the training has been provided by:

• Arnold & Porter
• Baker McKenzie
• Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
• Dechert LLP
• Foley Hoag LLP
• GST LLP
• International Development Law Organization (IDLO) as part of its Investment Support Program for Least Developed Countries funded by the European Union
• Ignacio A. Torterola Scholarship
• Kirkland & Ellis
• MSK
• PWC
• Squire Patton Boggs
• Winston & Strawn LLP

If you have any questions about the program, or if you would be interested in sponsoring participants in the program, please contact us at [email protected].