Secretary-General of UNIDROIT
Ignacio Tirado is Secretary-General of UNIDROIT and Full Professor of Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid, and an LL.M. from the University of London. He has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for almost nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters, as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform. Amongst other accolades to his professional experience, he is a founding member of the European Banking Institute, Director of the International Insolvency Institute, and an International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.