Howard Mann is the Senior International Law Advisor for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and manages its investment programme. Howard received his law degree from McGill University and his LLM and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He has been a practicing international lawyer for twenty years, including with the Government of Canada.

Over the past decade, Howard has become a recognized authority on international investment law and is relationship to sustainable development. He is the lead author of IISD’s Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development, and has been advising governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations on international investment issues for over a decade. He initiated the first amicus curiae intervention in an international arbitration on behalf of IISD, and is frequently called upon to speak at international conferences on investment and sustainable development issues. His most recent major project has been preparing a special report for the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights on international investment law and the business and human rights issue.