WTO DIRECTOR-GENERAL: PASCAL LAMY
Panel on Defining the Future of Trade
The Panel on Defining the Future of Trade was established in April 2012 to examine and analyse challenges to global trade opening in the 21st century. It was created in response to Director-General Pascal Lamy's suggestion at the WTO's 8th Ministerial Conference in December 2011 that the profound transformations in the world economy require the WTO and the multilateral trading system to look at the drivers of today and tomorrow's trade, to look at trade patterns and at what it means to open global trade in the 21st century, bearing in mind the role of trade in contributing to sustainable development, growth, jobs and poverty alleviation.
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The Panel on Defining the Future of Trade met three times, in May 2012, September 2012, and January 2013. The Panel also engaged in consultations and discussions with various stakeholders. Meetings took place in Beijing, Singapore, Geneva, New Delhi and Amman. The report of the panel – The Future of Trade: The Challenges of Convergence – was published on 24 April 2013.
The panellists are:
| Mr. Talal ABU-GHAZALEH, Chairman and Founder, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Overseas Corporation, Jordan |
| Ms. Sharan BURROW, Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation, Brussels |
| Ms. Helen CLARK, UNDP Administrator, New York |
| Mr. Thomas J. DONOHUE, President and CEO, US Chamber of Commerce, Washington |
| Mr. Frederico Fleury CURADO, President and CEO, Embraer S.A, Brazil |
| Mr. Victor K. FUNG, Chairman of Fung Global Institute and Honorary Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, China |
| Mr. Pradeep Singh MEHTA, Secretary-General, CUTS International, India |
| Mr. Festus Gontebanye MOGAE, Former President of Botswana |
| Ms. Josette SHEERAN, Vice Chairman, World Economic Forum, Geneva |
| Mr. Jürgen R. THUMANN, President, BUSINESSEUROPE, Brussels |
| Mr. George YEO, Former Foreign Minister, Singapore and Vice Chairman of Kerry Group Limited |
| Mr. Yoshiaki FUJIMORI, President and CEO, LIXIL Group Corporation and LIXIL Corporation |
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