Dr. Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island and the UPEI International Relations Office cordially invite you attend an on-campus roundtable on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, Mr. David Lametti MP.

Moderated by UPEI Director of International Relations, Dr. Barbara Campbell, the Roundtable is part of the series of local consultations led by the Government of Canada, with provincial leaders, local industry representatives, and members of the public on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and on international trade.‎

Thursday, March 31 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building

All members of the UPEI community are welcome to attend!

Member of Parliament (LaSalle-Émard-Verdun) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, David Lametti

David Lametti was recently a Professor of Law at McGill University. He was Associate Dean (Academic) between 2008 and 2011. He is a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and was a founding Member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP); he served as its Director from 2009 to 2012. Professor Lametti obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989.  He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled “Ethical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property”. Professor Lametti was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. He is an internationally-recognized expert in property and intellectual property, with numerous publications, and has taught or lectured in many of the world’s most well-known universities.