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E-Commerce and E-Finance: Hidden Issues
In seeking to develop a flexible legal framework for electroniccommerce, policymakers are allowing the private sector to takethe lead to a large extent. Meanwhile, in attending to theinternational financial system, other policymakers are wonderingwhether regulations need to be fitted to new modes of electronicfinance. This presentation looks at how the two sets ofpolicymakers are treating the shared concern of electronic money.Mary Rundle comes to the HIIP from her post as a Legal AffairsOfficer in the Trade and Finance Division of the World TradeOrganization, where her work since 1996 has focused on regionaltrade agreements, trade-related investment measures, andIMF/World Bank relations. Prior to joining the WTO, Mary earned ajoint degree in Law and Foreign Service (JD/MSFS, 1996) fromGeorgetown University, where she concentrated in business-government relations and the evolution of American law. Whilepursuing her joint degree, she assisted the chairman of theindustry-led coalition for the Information Technology Agreement,worked with the Harrison Institute for Public Law promoting stateparticipation in trade policymaking, and analyzed Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation competition policy for Georgetown's AsianLaw and Policy Studies Program.
