events

 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.

 

Peter F. Allgeier

President of C&M International, Ltd. (CMI)

Peter Balas

Deputy Director General, European Commission

Christophe Bellmann

Programmes Director at ICTSD

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Ewa Björling

Swedish Minister of Trade

Jean-Guy Carrier

Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce

Jake Colvin

Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council

Rob Davies

Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa

Jaime de Melo

University of Geneva & FERDI

Hüsnü Dilemre

Director General for Agreements, Ministry of Economy, Turkey

Manfred Elsig

Assistant Professor in International Relations at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern

Patricia R Francis

Executive Director, ITC

Anabel González

Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica

Charles Gore

Division for Africa, LDCs and Special Programmes, UNCTAD

Stuart Harbinson

Senior Trade Policy Adviser to Sidley Austin LLP

Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch

State Secretary, Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO

Leketekete Victor Ketso

Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing, Lesotho

Sergey Kiselev

Moscow State University

Pascal Lamy

Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui

Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations at the ministry of Economy

Guijun Lin

Vice President, UIBE

Douglas Lippoldt

Senior economist and trade policy analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris

Pradeep Mehta

Secretary General, CUTS International, India

Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz

Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz

Co-founder and Chief Executive of ICTSD

Julia Muir

Research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Mark Pearson

Programme Director, Trade Mark, South Africa

David Primack

Executive Director of the International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

Joakim Reiter

Sweden's
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva

Jose Luis Silva

Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism in Peru

Ransford Smith

Deputy Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat

Carlo Sommaruga

Elected Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva

Debra P. Steger

Professor in the University of Ottawa

Jin Kyo Suh

 

Senior Research Fellow at the KIEP

 

Datuk Maniam Supperamaniam

Former Ambassador of Malaysia to WTO

Marcel Vaillant

Professor International Trade Department of Economics, University of Uruguay

Rorden Wilkinson

Professor of International Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI)

Gita Wirjawan

Minister of Trade, Indonesia