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Nicola Bonucci is the Director of Legal Affairs with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. He originally joined the OECD in 1993 as a Legal Counselor, and served as Deputy Director from 2000 until becoming Director in 2005. He focuses on general public international law issues, participating in the negotiation of international agreements, interpreting the basic texts of the Organization, and providing legal opinions to the senior management (the Secretary-General and his Deputies), the Council (the governing body of the OECD), and its subsidiary bodies. Mr. Bonucci also handles the legal aspects of selected economic, environmental and agricultural issues for the OECD, and plays an active role in the drafting and the negotiation of any OECD act (Decisions and Recommendations). In addition, he deals with any necessary personnel matters, including litigation in front of the Administrative Tribunal of the OECD, budgetary issues and contracts.
Since 1997 Mr. Bonucci has been closely involved in the monitoring and follow-up of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, serving as a representative of the Legal Directorate in the follow-up and monitoring of the Convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. As Acting Head of the Anti-Corruption Division in 2004, he handled all management issues of the division, as well the substantive supervision of the staff involved with the monitoring of the Anti-Corruption Convention. Also in connection with this, Mr. Bonucci was a member of the examining team performing on-site visits in the US, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Italy, among other countries.
Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Bonucci served as a Legal Officer with the Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), in Rome, Italy for five years. There, he provided legal assistance to developing countries, African countries in particular, on natural resources law (especially law of the sea matters). He also dealt with general public international law issues, including the negotiation of international agreements.
Mr. Bonucci is a regular speaker and lecturer on international organizations, and a member of the French and the Italian Societies of International Law. He has authored of numerous reports on the management of natural resources, fisheries law and law of the sea, as well as articles in the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, in the Revue de l’Institut du Droit Economique de la Mer and in the International Financial Law Review. He also contributed to the book “Basic Documents of International Economic Law” edited by S. Zamora and R.A. Brand, and is a contributor to a forthcoming international commentary to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, edited by Mark Pieth and Lucinda Low and due to be published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.
Mr. Bonucci holds a DEA in Public International Law from the University of Paris X – Nanterre, a DESS in International Administration from the University of Paris II – Assas, and a Master of International and Comparative Law from the University of Notre Dame.
Director of Legal Affairs
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
+33 1 4524 8077
Nicola.Bonucci@oecd.org
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