A/HRC/31/50 Annex I List of speakers for panel discussions Monday, 6 July 2015 Keynote speaker • Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Panel I (15:00) Implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Renewed Commitment by All States: A Renewed Commitment by All States • Michael Addo, Chair, Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises Panel II (cont. 15h00-18h00) Principles for an International Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights • Chip Pitts (Lecturer in Law, Stanford University Law School) • Bonita Meyersfeld (Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an associate professor of law at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) • Professor Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham Tuesday, 7 July 2015 Panel III (09h00-13h00) Coverage of the Instrument: TNCs and other Business Enterprises: concepts and legal nature in International Law • Stephanie Blankenburg (Head of Debt, Development and Finance, UNCTAD • Michael Congiu (Shareholder, Littler Mendelson PLC) • Chip Pitts (Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School) • Carlos M. Correa (Special Advisor on Trade and Intellectual Property of the South Centre) Panel IV (15h00-18h00) Human rights to be covered under the Instrument with respect to activities of TNCs and other business enterprises • Hatem Kotrane (Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child) • Bonita Meyersfeld (Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and associate professor of law at the School of Law, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) 22

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