Bruno Hässig is a trade officer in the Trade Relations Division of the EFTA Secretariat in Geneva. He specialises in trade in goods-related issues in the context of FTA negotiations. Bruno has been previously working as First Secretary for the Permanent mission of Switzerland to the WTO and EFTA, working on market access, SPS, TBT and rules of origin. Bruno holds a Bachelor degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva, an M.A. in International Affairs & Governance from the University of St. Gallen and an M.A in Global Economy & Strategy from Yonsei University in Seoul.

Simon Wüthrich-Bovet is a trade officer in the Trade Relations Division of the EFTA Secretariat in Geneva. He specialises in investment and trade in services in the context of FTA negotiations. Simon previously served as the deputy head of the Americas Unit at the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs. He holds a PhD in political science from the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern and a MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Simon is still active in research with a focus on the political economy of trade and investment agreements.

Kent Shigetomi is the Director for Multilateral Non-Tariff Barriers at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He works on issues related to rules of origin and technical barriers to trade. Prior to this, he covered trade issues in North America and the Caribbean, including U.S. trade preference programs in that region.

Ingrid Garrido is Economic Advisor at the Market Access Division of the Undersecretariat of International Economic Relations. She has been involved in several negotiations of Regional Trade Agreements, including Indonesia, China, European Union, India, Korea, and has monitored market access issues in the framework of FTAs and multilateral fora, including WTO and APEC. She also has promoted the exchange of FTA’s utilization data with trade partners and the provision of relevant data to international organizations. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chile in Economics.

Özlem Taytaş Öztürk is a senior trade expert in the Directorate General of International Agreements and EU Affairs of Ministry of Trade in Turkey. She has been working on the area of free trade agreements since 2010 and has experience on the negotiations and implementation of Turkey’s FTAs. She previously worked as the contact point of Turkey in the negotiations with Japan (2011-2019).  She is currently responsible for Turkey’s FTA’s with EFTA, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina and PTA with Azerbaijan. Özlem holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration (2010) and a M.A. in Eurasian Studies (2013) from Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She also holds a M.S. in International Political Economy (2018) from London School of Economics and Political Science in London.  

David Vlasblom is a Trade Policy Officer in the Tariffs and Goods Market Access Division of Global Affairs Canada, where he specializes in rules of origin and data projects. David has participated in numerous free trade negotiations and is the lead officer for preference utilization analysis and data exchanges.