Biography — Manuel Teehankee

Manuel Antonio J. Teehankee was Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment sitting in Special Session (CTESS) from 2008 to October 2011. As Chair, he delivered in April 2011 his report on progress in the trade and environment negotiations, which formed part of the Easter 2011 Package. Concurrently, Mr Teehankee was the Ambassador and Philippine Permanent Representative to the WTO. Previously, he had chaired the regular Committee on Trade and Environment in 2007 and the Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology in 2005 and 2006. A lawyer by training, he has served as Under-Secretary of the Department of Justice and Government Corporate Counsel for the Philippine Government. In the private sector, Mr Teehankee has been admitted to the Bar in New York and the Philippines, and worked for Baker & McKenzie and LeBoeuf Lamb in New York, specializing in international arbitration and commercial transactions. Mr Teehankee currently lectures on public international law and WTO law at the Ateneo de Manila University Law School, where he is the Adviser for the LLM Programme.