Biography — Stuart Harbinson

Stuart Harbinson is an independent trade policy adviser based in Geneva, after having worked as Senior Trade Policy Adviser in the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP. Prior to this position, he worked in the UNCTAD Secretariat in Geneva. He first joined the WTO Secretariat as Chief of Staff to Director-General Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi and then became Special Adviser to the WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy. Following a distinguished career in public service in Hong Kong from 1978 to 2002, he represented Hong Kong, and then the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, in the WTO, between 1994 and 2002. Stuart Harbinson chaired a number of WTO bodies, including the TRIPS and Services Councils, and the Dispute Settlement Body. He was also Chairman of the WTO General Council (2001-2002) overseeing preparations for the launch of the Doha round, and of the negotiating group handling the formative stages of the Doha negotiations on agriculture (2002/2004). Stuart Harbinson holds a master's degree from the University of Cambridge.