Programme

Moderator:

Mr Yorgos Altintzis, Policy Officer, ITUC

Speakers:

Mr Douglas Lippoldt, Senior Economist and Trade Policy Analyst, Development Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Mr Hubert Escaith, Chief Statistician, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO

Ms Emily Sims, Senior Specialist, Programme on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Ms Jenny Holdcroft, Policy Director, IndustriALL Global Union

Mr Joerg Weber, Head, Investment Policies Branch, Division on Investment and Enterprise, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Moderator:

Ms Katrin Kuhlmann, President, TransFarm Africa

Speakers:

Mr Elijah Manyara, Principal Counselor, Kenyan Permanent Mission Geneva

Mr Nuradin Osman, Director, Operations Africa and Middle East, AGCO Corporation

Mr Antoine Bouet, Senior Research Fellow and Co-leader of the Globalization and Markets Program, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Mr Mombert Hoppe, Trade Economist, World Bank

WHY GLOBAL COOPERATION IS FAILING
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing When It’s Most Needed

Oxford University, Durham University and University of Amherst

Moderator:

Ms Roberta Piermartini, Counsellor, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO

Speakers:

Mr Thorsten Benner, Associate Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)

Ms Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Senior Researcher, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University

Mr Thomas Hale, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

Mr Mark Halle, Vice President, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Moderator:

Ms Juliana Peixoto Batista, Acting Co-Chair, FLACSO–WTO Chair; Coordinator, LATN

Speakers:

Mr Pablo Heidrich, Senior Researcher, Trade and Development, (NSI)

Ms Sandra Polónia Rios, Director, Centro de Estudos de Integração e Desenvolvimento (CINDES)

Mr Eduardo Bianchi, Co-chair FLACSO–WTO Chair; former Secretary of Industry, Argentina

Professor Debra Steger, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Mr Rolf Traeger, Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Moderator:

Mr Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO

Speakers:

Mr Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and Founder, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Overseas Corporation, Jordan

Ms Sharan Burrow, Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Brussels

Mr Frederico Fleury Curado, President and CEO, Embraer S.A, Brazil

Mr Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International

Mr Festus Gontebanye Mogae, Former President of Botswana

Ms Josette Sheeran, Vice Chairman, World Economic Forum, Geneva

Mr George Yeo, Former Foreign Minister of Singapore; Vice Chairman, Kerry Group Limited

Moderator:

Mr Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD

Speakers:

Mr Douglas Lippoldt, Senior Economist, Development Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD

Dr Marion Jansen, Head, Trade and Employment Programme, International Labour Organization (ILO); Faculty Member, World Trade Institute (WTI)

Mr Marc Bacchetta, Counsellor, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO

Ms Mina Mashayekhi, Head, Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy Branch, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services and Commodities (DITC), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Moderator:

Mr Carlo Trojan, Chairman, IPC; former Ambassador of the European Commission to the WTO

Speakers:

H.E. Mr Tim Yeend, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the WTO

Dr Manzoor Ahmad, Senior Fellow, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

Professor Tim Josling, Senior Fellow, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; Member, IPC.

Mr Sun Zhenyu, Former Chinese Ambassador to the WTO

Moderator:

Mr Robert Carlson, President, WFO

Speakers:

Mr Enrique Domínguez Lucero, Agricultural Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations

Ms Shelby Matthews, Chief Policy Advisor, COPA-COGECA

Mr Charles Ogang, President, Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE)

Moderator:

Ms Arancha González, Chief of Staff, Office of the Director-General, WTO

Speakers:

Mr Bernard Hoekman, Director, Trade Department, World Bank

Mr Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD

H.E. Ms Anabel Gonzalez, Minister of Trade, Costa Rica 

Mr Peter Draper, Senior Research Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Mr Karan Bhatia, Vice President and Senior Counsel, International Law & Policy General Electric Company

Commentator: Mr Patrick Low, Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO

IDEAS WORKSHOP
The Future of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Legal Affairs Division, WTO Secretariat

The workshops bring together experts from diverse backgrounds to address a topical trade challenge. Unlike the panel sessions, the workshops will deal with a particular problem and focus on coming up with concrete solutions. > Find out more

Moderator:

Mr Manzoor Ahmad, Senior Fellow at ICTSD

Speakers:

Mr Ron Steenblik, Senior Trade Policy Analyst, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Dr Maite Aldaya, Water Observatory/Consultant, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Dr Mohammad Ait Kadi, President, General Council of Agricultural Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery, Morocco

Ms Anke Schulmeister, Senior Policy Officer, European Policy Office, WWF

Moderators:

Mr Ralph Kamphöner, Director, International Trade and Wholesale, EuroCommerce

Mr Pierre Michael Gröning, Trade Policy Advisor, FTA

Speakers:

Hon. Mr Vital Moreira, Member of the European Parliament; Chair, Committee on International Trade

Mr Olivier Ganne, Head, International Customs Department, Oxylane Group

Mr Paolo Garzotti, Head of Unit, WTO Coordination, OECD, Export Credits and Dual Use, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission

Dr Frank Schauff, Chief Executive Officer, Association of European Businesses (AEB)

WTO Trade Facilitation: Time for Early Harvest — Joint statement

EuroCommerce and the Foreign Trade Association (FTA)

Moderator:

H.E. Mr Mario Matus, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the WTO, to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Speakers:

Professor Manfred Elsig, Assistant Professor, WTI

H.E. Mr Joakim Reiter, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO

Professor Debra Steger, Senior Fellow, CIGI; Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Moderator:

Ms Maria Perez-Esteve, Public Forum Co-ordinator, WTO

Speakers:

Ms Karina Hehs, Student of Agricultural Engineering, University of São Paulo; Winner of the WTO Youth Ambassador Video Contest

Ms Ankita Mishra, MBA Student, Institute of Business Management Pune; Winner of the WTO Youth Ambassador Essay Contest

Mr Andrew Bauer, Student of Land Economics, Cambridge University

Ms Marina Murina, Former student of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID); Consultant, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Moderator:

Ms Nicolle Graugnard, Policy Manager, Department of Policy and Business Practices, ICC

Speakers:

Mr James Bacchus, Member, ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy; Chair, Global Practice Group, Greenburg Traurig; former Chairmen, WTO Appellate Body

Mr Geoffrey Gamble, Chair, ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy; Director, International Affairs, DuPont Company

Dr Jan Atteslander, Member, ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy; Member of Executive Board, Economiesuisse

Moderator:

Ms Kinda Mohamadieh, Arab NGO Network on Development, Lebanon

Speakers:

Mr Xavier Carim, Deputy Director General — International Trade and Economic Development Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa

Ms Melinda St Louis, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, USA

Ms Sanya Reid Smith, Third World Network, Malaysia and Geneva

Moderator:

Professor Raymond Saner, Director, TPGP, CSEND

Speakers:

H.E. Mr Yonov Frederick Agah, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the WTO, Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Office in Geneva

Mr Peter Draper, Senior Research Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA

Mr Stuart Harbinson, Former Permanent Representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China to the WTO; former Senior WTO Official

Mr Lu Xiankun, Counsellor, Head of Division, Permanent Mission of China to the WTO

Mr Nicholas Niggli, Former Chairman, WTO Committee on Government Procurement; Counsellor, Deputy Head of the WTO Division at the Premanent Mission of Switzerland to the WTO and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

Mr Luzius Wasescha, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)