‘Under Pressure’: Integrating Online Dispute Resolution Platforms into Preinsolvency Processes and Early Warning Tools to Save Distressed Small Businesses
Antonia Menezes,
Nina Mocheva,
Sagar Siva Shankar
Affiliations
Antonia Menezes
is a senior financial sector specialist with the Insolvency and Debt Resolution Team of the World Bank Group based in Washington DC. The focus of her work is providing technical assistance and advice to governments on insolvency and debt resolution reforms, including legal aspects of non performing loans (NPL) management, with a particular emphasis on work in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. She has assisted more than 50 countries in reforming and strengthening their insolvency and creditor/debtor regimes. Antonia has published widely in the field of insolvency and represents the World Bank Group at Working Group V (Insolvency) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She is also a co-chair of the World Bank Group Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes (ICR) Task Force, which is responsible for testing and evaluating the effectiveness of the World Bank Group ICR Principles. e-mail:
Nina Mocheva
is a senior financial sector specialist with the Debt Resolution and Insolvency team of the World Bank Group of Credit Infrastructure, and is based in Washington DC. Nina is a dual-trained lawyer in both civil and common law jurisdiction and specializes in designing dispute resolution schemes tailored to specific sectors, such as insolvency, financial consumer protection and debt resolution. She focuses on assisting World Bank member countries in improving their insolvency and debt resolution regimes, as well as with implementing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms, such as commercial arbitration and commercial mediation (private and court-connected). Nina was involved in the drafting and passing of mediation regulation in Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Egypt and the Dominican Republic, among others. She is particularly interested in the intersection between insolvency, debt enforcement and alternative dispute resolution, and has published extensively on these topics. Nina is focusing in workplace dispute resolution and serves as voluntary counsellor for the World Bank Group Staff Association, where she assists staff in navigating through the organization’s internal justice system, including the Office of the Ombudsman. e-mail:
Sagar Siva Shankar
is a financial sector specialist with the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group, based in New Delhi, India. The focus of his work is providing technical assistance to governments and regulators in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa on policy reforms and innovations in the areas of financial infrastructure, financial inclusion and financial technologies. e-mail:
