Laura C. Atlee completed a bachelor’s degree in Biology at Franklin and Marshall College, a Juris Doctor at Florida State University-College of Law and a Masters in International Law and Economics (MILE) at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland. She is currently an associate at the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson, LLP, in its Brussels, Belgium office.  She is a member of both the EU Regulatory and International practice areas; within these areas, she primarily focuses on International Trade, Environment and Life Sciences. While working on international trade issues, she was a guest on CNBC's SquawkBox and contributed to articles published by Bloomberg Press.   In the area of Environment she has authored or co-authored several articles on the EU’ Climate Change Policy, specifically  the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

Julian Clarke is an Australian national who received an undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Sydney with a major in Government. He received his Masters in International Law and Economics, graduating summa cum laude, from the World Trade Institute and was awarded a scholarship from the University of Bern to remain in Switzerland and complete his PhD. Julian has worked as a currency trader and foreign exchange economic analyst, and supervised operations for equities trading and marketing in both Sydney and Singapore. He has worked for the Trade Directorate of the OECD in Paris and as a consultant on projects for the EC, SECO and the Inter American Development Bank. He has published several articles and book chapters on the subject of multilateral competition policy and is writing his doctoral dissertation on the same subject. In his free time, Julian enjoys travel and catching up with family and friends. After working as a Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland, he is now a trade consultant at the World Bank.

Robson Fernandes is a Brazilian lawyer who graduated in Law from the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil, before pursuing his master's degree on international law and economics at the World Trade Institute (WTI), where he graduated magna cum laude. Holding professional experiences from the public and private sectors in Brazil, after the MILE Mr. Fernandes carried out internships at the World Trade Organization (WTO), in an international trade law firm in Brussels, besides experience in an inter-governamental organization also working with international trade matters. While an intern at the WTO, Mr. Fernandes contributed to the World Trade Report 2006. Furthermore, he has published on agriculture and trade remedies. Since February 2007, Robson holds a position at the secretariat of the Agriculture and Commodities Division of the WTO, working with agriculture and sanitary and phytosanitary aspects of international trade.

Nanna Matsson holds a Master degree in Economics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and she currently lives and works in Brussels. After finishing the MILE programme in 2007, she completed a traineeship at the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Trade. Currently, she works for a think-tank, the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), providing research assistance within the field of international trade. In January 2009 she will begin a 2-year posting at the European Commission's Delegation in Santiago de Chile: "I am very excited about this new job! I have wanted to write to the WTI for a long time now to express my gratitude and esteem for the MILE programme. After having done a traineeship in DG Trade I truly realised the indispensable insight the MILE programme has provided me in the large and complex field of international trade. Without the obtained knowledge from the courses and weekly assessments I would not have been able to fully take advantage and reap the benefits of my traineeship in DG Trade and it has provided me with the essential tools for a career in international trade. I am very grateful for the programme and the WTI!"

Fernando Piérola has been with the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) since June 2002. Prior to joining the ACWL, he served as a Legal Adviser to the Antidumping and Subsidies Commission, which is Peru's investigating authority for anti-dumping, subsidies and safeguards, and as a Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute. He also participated in the traineeship programmes of the Appellate Body of the WTO and of the Andean Community Secretariat. Fernando Piérola is the author of a Spanish language text on WTO dispute settlement, for which he received the Inter-American Bar Association Best Book Award 2003.  The book is currently in its 2nd edition with the title Solución de Diferencias ante la OMC: Presente y Perspectivas (Cameron May, 2007). He has been appointed by the governments of Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua as Arbitrator of the Central American Dispute Resolution Mechanism in the context of the Central American Economic Integration System (SIECA) for a period of three years ending on 29 September 2009. He is member of the Editorial Board and columnist on WTO law of the Global Trade and Customs Journal.  Fernando has given lectures and presentations on WTO-related matters at the World Trade Institute, the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, WTO, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, South-Centre and ICTSD. He holds a lawyer's degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, besides the Master degree in International Law and Economics (MILE).

Follow-up on MILE graduate Fernando Pierola (MILE 1 - Student): Follow Up on Fernando.pdf

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