The senior US investment official who branded the Human Rights Commission a "failed entity" in need of "complete reorganisation" is to meet its chief commissioner Brice Dickson today (Wednesday).
The State of New York comptroller Alan Hevesi, who handles one of the world's largest pools of investment capital, arrived in Belfast last night as part of a week-long visit to Ireland. He will meet senior figures from the north's political parties, before talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Secretary of State Paul Murphy.
Mr Hevesi, together with his colleague the City of New York Comptroller William Thompson, currently has more than $15 billion invested in companies doing business in Northern Ireland. But the elected officials are bound by US law to only invest in companies which uphold fair employment practices.
In September the comptrollers issued a joint letter to the British and Irish governments citing claims that Human Rights Commission proposals could undermine fair employment.
Today's meeting between Mr Hevesi and Mr Dickson will be their first since the comptrollers' letter called for his resignation.
