Glenn Frese
Jay Takefman
Terry Savage
John Armstrong
Robin Sears
Kenneth Frankel
Stephen Pincus
Larry Latowsky
Martin Rothstein
Paul Goldman
Kaz Jana
Robert Waite
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KENNETH FRANKEL
Ken is currently Director of
Legal Services at the Organization of American
States in
Washington, D.C., where he is a key advisor to its
Secretary General. For more than
25 years, Mr. Frankel has managed commercial
transactions and disputes in Latin
America, North America, Europe and Asia, with
particular expertise in joint venture
and consortium infrastructure projects.
Mr. Frankel was formerly Chair of the Latin American
Practice Group at Torys.
Before that, he served as General Counsel at Alcatel
Canada, Chief International
Counsel at Alcatel España, Chief Counsel at Alcatel
Polska, and Chief Counsel, Latin
America (wireless) at Alcatel Germany. He served as
a consultant to the World Bank
on corporate and arbitration law reform in Bolivia
and pro bono as the first program
coordinator for the USAID/American Bar Association
program on legal reform in
Honduras and Guatemala. Following law school, Mr.
Frankel clerked for Federal
District Court Judge Eugene P. Spellman in Miami,
Florida.
Mr. Frankel frequently publishes op-ed pieces and
book reviews on hemispheric affairs
in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Ottawa
Citizen, and the Toronto Star
and has published in the Miami Herald and Reforma
(Mexico). He is a frequent guest
commentator on Canadian television (CBC, BNN, CTV,
TVO) and radio, and at
conferences in North America.
Mr. Frankel served as an election observer during
the Venezuelan Presidential recall
referendum (2004) and during the Nicaraguan Federal
Elections (2006). Ken is Chair
of Canadian Council for the Americas, a member of
the Board of Directors of the
Canadian Foundation of the Americas.
Ken received his A.B. cum laude and with high
distinction in Latin American
Studies from Dartmouth College, and his JD from
Northeastern University.
He is admitted to practice in the US (several
states) and Ontario.
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