Speakers

Vladimir Golitsyn is a national of the Russian Federation and has been active in the field of international law for almost four decades. He has served as head of the Division of Public International Law in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the former USSR and as head member of delegations on fishery, navigation and maritime boundary matters. At the United Nations, where he has worked for 25 years, he has been involved in a wide range of legal issues such as the establishment and implementation of the oil-for-food program for Iraq and negotiation of arrangements related to the Lockerbie case. Judge Golitsyn is currently vice president of the Russian Association of Maritime Law, a member of the Expert Council on the Arctic of the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament, deputy director of the Russian Institute of Maritime Law and also works as professor of international law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.