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Lead legal counsel for World Bank to lecture

By Lyndel Owens '10
April 8, 2008

Mohammed Bekhechi, lead legal counsel for the World Bank, will deliver a lecture titled "The World Bank and the Environment: From Doing No Harm to Doing Good" at St. Olaf College April 10.

The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons. It is free and open to the public.

Bekhechi is a leading scholar on development in Africa and has published four books and several articles on international law, public law, international environmental law and international economic law. He currently is working on a number of bank-assisted infrastructure projects dealing with energy needs in Chad, Cameroon, Mozambique, South Africa and Mumbai. He also is involved in natural resource management in several African and Middle Eastern countries.

Before joining the World Bank in 1994, Bekhechi was a professor at numerous institutions, including the American University in Cairo, Zagazig University in Egypt and Mohammed V University in Morocco.

Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.