Rosenzweig & Company - Advisory Board

ADVISORY BOARD

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.