July 26-27, 1999
Montreal, Canada

Speaker Biography

Jenny Clift

Legal Officer
United States Commission on International Trade Law

Jenny Clift is a Legal Officer with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Her responsibilities include the Working Group on Electronic Commerce and she is Secretary of the Working Group on Insolvency Law. Before joining UNCITRAL in 1998, Ms Clift was Principal Legal Officer with the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Office of International Law. In 1997/98 she chaired the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Expert Group on Electronic Commerce, which was tasked with advising on the legal framework needed for electronic commerce, including adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce. She was also a member of the National Public Key Infrastructure Working Group, set up to consider strategies for an Australian national electronic authentication framework, and advised a number of other Commonwealth projects on electronic commerce legal issues. Between 1994 to 1998, Ms Clift was Australian delegate to UNCITRAL's Working Group on Electronic Commerce.