Kluwer: Interviews with Our Editors: In Conversation with Atsuko Hirose, Acting Secretary-General of the Energy Charter Secretariat, following the Official Adoption of the Modernised ECT

By Maria Fanou (Associate Editor) and Giovanni Dall'Agnola (Assistant Editor for Investment Arbitration) (Geneva Graduate Institute)

On 3 December 2024, the Energy Charter Conference (“Conference”) officially adopted the modernised version of the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT” or “Treaty”), following an agreement in principle reached in June 2022. We invited the Acting Secretary-General of the Energy Charter Secretariat (“Secretariat”), Ms. Atsuko Hirose, to share her insights. Ms. Hirose assumed her current position...