Professor Ignacio Tirado was appointed SecretaryGeneral by the UNIDROIT Governing Council at its 97th session on 27 August 2018. He was recently reappointed, at the 102nd session, for a second term. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for over ten 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, Professor Tirado is a founding member of the European Banking Institute, an International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and has been Director and Academic Co-Chair of the International Insolvency Institute.