Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development: Improving International Investment Law

Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food since May 2008. He is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin). He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and is Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Johan F. Swinnen is Professor of Development Economics, KU Leuven and the Director of LICOS-Center for Institutions & Economic Performance, KU Leuven. He was the lead economist at the World Bank in 2003-2004 and Economic Advisor to the European Commission, DG-Economic and Financial Affairs, 1998-2001. Jan Wouters holds the Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam on EU and Global Governance at the KU Leuven, where he is Professor of International Law and International Organizations. He is the Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studiesa- Institute for International Law, University of Leuven, and chair of the Flemish Foreign Affairs Council.