The 2019 Public Forum, entitled “Trading Forward: Adapting to a Changing World”, will be held at the WTO headquarters in Geneva from 8 to 11 October. The provisional programme is available here.

For more information, please visit the Public Forum webpage www.wto.org/pf19.

Background

The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest annual outreach event. It provides a unique platform for heads of state, parliamentarians, leading global business people, students, academics and non-governmental organizations to come together and debate on a wide range of WTO issues and on some of the major trade and development topics of the day. Over 1,500 participants attend the Forum each year.