Our invited guest speakers are composed of a distinguished group of business leaders, key policymakers in governmental and intergovernmental organizations, experts from academia and research institutes, and vocal activists from civil society organizations. Together they offer a comprehensive view on issues at stake with fresh perspectives from China, Europe, the U.S., as well as other developing countries.
Paul Brenton
Paul Brenton is Lead Economist (Trade and Regional Integration) in the Africa Region of the World Bank.
Roderick Abbott
Roderick Abbott is a former Deputy Director General of the WTO and of the DG Trade in the European Commission.
Ahmed Abdel Latif
Ahmed Abdel Latif is Programme Manager for Intellectual Property at ICTSD.
Doaa Abdel Motaal
Doaa Abdel Motaal is Counsellor in the Office of the Director-General of the WTO, where she is responsible for a number of subjects, including Doha Round agricultural and environmental negotiations.
Ratnakar Adhikari
Ratnakar Adhikari is the General Secretary of South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE), a Kathmandu-based think tank, which he cofounded in 1994.
Rajesh Aggarwal
Rajesh Aggarwal is Chief of the Business & Trade Policy Section of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva. He is leading a programme of promoting business advocacy in developing countries with a view to reflect business interests in national trade policies and governments’ positions in international trade negotiations.
Anders Ahnlid
Anders Ahnlid is an experienced expert in the area of international trade and particularly trade policy.
Arthur E. Appleton
Dr. Appleton is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers - a boutique international trade and arbitration firm with offices in Brussels, Geneva, Singapore, Warsaw and Washington, D.C.
Commissioner Catherine Ashton*
Cathy Ashton was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs on 9 September 2004.
Debapriya Bhattacharya
Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, a macro-economist and public policy analyst, currently is a Special Advisors on LDCs in Office of the Secretary General of UNCTAD.
Annet Blank
Ms Annet Blank is the Head of the LDC Unit at World Trade Organization in Geneva.
Clemens Bonnekamp
Clemens Bonnekamp is Director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division, WTO
Robert Bradley*
Rob Bradley is Director of WRI’s International Climate Policy Initiative. Bradley’s training was originally as a physicist, with a BSc in Physical Sciences from University College London and an MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia.
Massimiliano Calì
Massimiliano Calì is a Research Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute.
Jake Colvin
Jake Colvin is Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), a U.S.-based business association whose mission is to promote an open, rules-based trading system.
Mireille Cossy
Mireille Cossy is a Counsellor in the Trade in Services Division of the WTO since 1995.
Thomas Cottier
Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law.
Carlos Márcio Cozendey (Brazil)
Rob Davies, MP
Rob Davies is deployed to the Langeberg and Cape Town Central constituencies.
Minister Chen Deming*
Chen Deming (born 1949) is the Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
Biswajit Dhar
Dr. Biswajit Dhar is Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries.
Tsidiso Disenyana
Tsidiso Disenyana is Deputy Project Head, “Development through Trade” programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs.
Antoni Estevadeordal
Antoni Estevadeordal joined the IADB in 1993 and he is currently the Manager of Integration and Trade.
Minister Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita
Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita has been the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO since 2003.
Simon Evenett
Simon Evenett is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen.
Ambassador Jean Feyder
His Excellency Mr. Jean Feyder is the ambassador and permanent representative of Luxembourg to WTO and also the Chairman of the WTO Subcommittee on LDCs.
Tatiana Filippova
Tatiana Filippova is a specialist in the international trade, NGO “Independent Ecological Expertise”, the Kyrgyz Republic
Anja K. Franck
Anja K. Franck is currently writing a PhD in Economic Geography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui
On December 1st 2006, Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui was appointed Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations at the Ministry of Economy.
Markus Gehring
Dr. Markus Gehring, D.jur (Hamb), LL.M. (Yale), MA (Cantab)Lead Counsel, Trade, Investment, Competition Law
Aimee Gonzales
Aimee T. Gonzales currently works as Senior Policy Officer on Fisheries Subsidies reform in the WTO based in WWF International in Gland, Switzerland.
Minister Tim Groser
Tim was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament as a List MP in the 2005 General Election.
Moustapha Kamal Gueye
Moustapha Kamal Gueye served as Senior Programme Manager – Environment Cluster at ICTSD between 2006 and 2009, before joining UNEP Economics and Trade Branch as an Economic Affairs Officer. He works on the Green Economy Initiative.
Hervé Guyomard
Scientific Director of Society, Economics and Decision-Making, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Mark Halle
Mark Halle is global director for IISD’s Trade and Investment program, and IISD’s European Representative, based in its Geneva office.
Minister Frank Heemskerk
Frank Heemskerk was born in Haarlem on 26 July 1969 and is the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade.
Pablo Heidrich
Pablo Heidrich is Senior researcher on trade and development at the North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Anwarul Hoda*
Anwarul Hoda, Chair Professor of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)’s Trade Policy and WTO Research Programme
Bernard Hoekman
Bernard Hoekman, is Director of the International Trade Department of The World Bank. Prior positions at the World Bank include Research Manager of the trade and international integration team in the Development Research Group; manager of the trade capacity building program of the World Bank Institute; and trade economist in the Middle East/North Africa and Europe and Central Asia departments.
Henrik Isakson
Henrik Isakson is Senior Adviser at the Swedish National Board of Trade.
Faizel Ismail
Faizel Ismail is currently the Head of the South African Delegation to the World Trade Organization based in Geneva.
Frederic Jenny
Frédéric Jenny is Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris, Judge at the Supreme Court of France (Cour de Cassation), Chairman of the OECD Competition Law and Policy Committee.
Guy de Jonquières
Guy de JonquièresGuy de Jonquières is a writer and a senior fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy with a particular interest in Asia and international economic policy.
Tim Josling
Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Institute for International Studies Stanford University
IPC Member since 1997.
Konstantinos Karachalios
Scenarios Analyst at the EPO and co-editor of the 'Scenarios for the Future' work.
Jodie Keane
Jodie Keane is a Research Officer working on trade policy issues with the International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
Pascal Kerneis
Pascal Kerneis is Managing Director of ESF (European Services Forum) since 1999. He holds a Ph. D. in European Law. He formerly was International Trade adviser in the European Banking Federation, closely involved in the WTO negotiations on financial services.
Ambassador Ron Kirk*
As United States Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Kirk is a member of President Obama's Cabinet and serves as the President's principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues.
Sergey Kiselev
Head Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, College of Economics, Russia
Marieke Koning
Marieke Koning is Equality Officer and project coordinator at the ITUC Equality department.
David Luke
Dr. David Luke is a Trade, Debt and Globalization Adviser to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), assigned to Southern African countries.
James MacGregor
James MacGregor, Team Leader, Climate Change Economics, International Institute for Environment and Development.
Gabrielle Marceau
Gabrielle Marceau is a Canadian lawyer and, currently, Counsellor with the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva where she has been working since 1994.
Ambassador Sergio Marchi
Ambassador Sergio Marchi is a Senior Fellow with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, in Geneva. He formerly served as Canadian Minister for International Trade and Ambassador to the WTO, as well as Chairman of the WTO General Council.
Ambassador Mothae Maruping
His Excellency Dr. Mothae Maruping is the ambassador and permanent representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United Nations in Geneva, to the WTO and to Switzerland.
Kennedy Mbekeani
Kennedy Mbekeani is Senior Economist at the AfDB
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz
Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ is ICTSD’s co-founder and its Chief Executive Officer since 1996.
Kunio Mikuriya
Before taking up his position as Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) on 1 January 2009, Kunio Mikuriya spent seven years as the Organization’s Deputy Secretary General.
Kate Miles
Kate Miles, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (Hons I) (Auckland), LL.M. (NYU), is a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
John Miller
Wall Street Journal
Russel Mills
Russel Mills is the Global Director of Energy & Climate Change Policy for Dow Chemical.
Ben Moxham
Ben Moxham is the international policy officer with the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) with responsibility for trade policy
Minister Felix Mutati
Minister Felix Mutati is the Minister of Commerce Trade and Industry for the Republic of Zambia.
Ambassador Darlington Mwape
H.E. Ambassador Darlington Mwape of the Permanent Mission of Zambia
Olga Nartova
Olga Nartova, Co-Leader of the Working Package 5 on Trade and Climate Change, NCCR Trade Regulation
Nicholas Nesbitt
Nicholas Nesbitt is co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of KenCall EPZ Ltd, the first and leading international BPO/call centre outsourcing company in Kenya.
Richard Newfarmer
Special Representative to the UN and the World Trade Organization World Bank Geneva, Switzerland
Dominique Njinkeu
Dominique Njinkeu, is Lead Trade Facilitation Specialist and the Program Coordinator of Trade Facilitation Facility at the World Bank.
David Orden
David Orden is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, and professor and director of the Global Issues Initiative (GII) of the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Sheila Page
Sheila Page (Chair) is a Senior Research Associate in the Trade Programme at the Overseas Development Institute.
Minister Mary Pangestu
Born on 23rd October 1956 in Jakarta, Marie is the only Cabinet member of ethnic Chinese descent.
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Carlos Perez del Castillo
Carlos Perez del Castillo is currently an independent senior international consultant involved in various assignments with governments, private sector, and international organisations.
Leo Peskett
Leo Peskett is a Research Fellow in ODI’s Rural Policy and Governance Group on climate change.
Christian Pitschas
Dr. Christian Pitschas is a lawyer and Director of WTI Advisors, a consultancy on international trade/WTO law and policy.
Olga Ponizova
Olga Ponizova- Ph.D in Economics, graduated from Moscow State University (Faculties of Economics and Journalist).
David Primack
David Primack is a trade/development economist and ILEAP's Acting Executive Director
Mustafizur Rahman
Dr. Mustafizur Rahman is an economist by training. He is currently the Executive Director at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a leading civil society think tank in Bangladesh.
Dwijen Rangnekar
Dwijen Rangnekar: Research Councils UK Academic Fellow and Asst. Professor in Law – jointly at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and the School of Law, University of Warwick (UK).
Sandra Polónia Rios
Sandra Polónia Rios is Director of CINDES – a centre of studies on economic integration and development issues and her areas of expertise include trade negotiations and trade policy.
Luisa Antonia Rodriguez
Luisa Antonia Rodriguez is Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD.
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza
Miguel RODRÍGUEZ MENDOZA is a Senior Fellow at ICTSD, where he focuses on aid for trade issues, regionalism and trade policy.
Minister Gerardo Ruiz Mateos
President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa appointed Ruiz as Secretary of Economy on 6 August 2008.
Courtney Jill Sakai
Courtney Jill Sakai is a Senior Campaign Director at Oceana, an international conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the health of the world’s oceans.
Pierre Sauvé
Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne, Switzerland, where he directs and teaches in the WTI’s MILE programme and also leads a Swiss National Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries.
Hannes Schloemann
Mr. Schloemann is a Director of WTI Advisors and partner at MSBH Rechtsanwälte.
Josef Schmidhuber
Josef Schmidhuber is the Head of FAO’s Global Perspective Studies Unit.
Frank Schmidt-Hullmann
Frank Schmidt-Hullmann (IG BAU) Head of the international relations and European construction policies department.
Robert Scollay
Robert Scollay spent several years in the private sector, working in an international trading company, before joining the Economics Department at the University of Auckland, where he was also appointed director of the New Zealand APEC Study Centre in 1995.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, MEM (Yale), BCL & LL.B (McGill) is a leading international legal scholar in the field of sustainable development and Director of the CISDL, in a pro bono academic capacity.
Minister Anand Sharma*
Shri Anand Sharma, a politician from Indian National Congress party, is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Himachal Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Ambassador Nestor Stancanelli
Nestor STANCANELLI is a senior trade negotiator who has represented Argentina during both the Uruguay Round and the Doha Round.
Andrew L Stoler
Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
Antony Taubman
Vera Thorstensen
Vera Thorstensen has been the Economic Advisor for the Mission of Brazil in Geneva since 1995.
Carlo Trojan
Former Ambassador of the European Commission to the WTO IPC Member since 2007. Chairman since 2008
Verki Michael Tunteng
Mr. Verki Michael Tunteng, is a licensed engineer and lawyer specialising in the intersection between law, clean technology and finance.
Mark van der Horst
Mark van der Horst is Director EU affairs with United Parcel Service (UPS) in Brussels.
Ajay Vashee
Ajay Vashee, President of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP).
Robert Vastine
Robert Vastine has served as the President of CSI since his appointment to that position in January 1996.
Minister Andrés Velasco
Andrés Velasco holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Jo Vervecken
Jo Vervecken is an economic advisor to the Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium.
Tu Xinquan
TU Xinquan is currently Associate Director and Associate Professor of China Institute for WTO Studies of University of International Business and Economics located in Beijing, China.
Simonetta Zarrilli
Simonetta Zarrilli, Legal Officer, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD