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Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at the Florida State University College of Law. He is Rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade (...)

Doaa Abdel Motaal is Counsellor in the Office of the Director-General of the WTO, where she is responsible for a number of subjects, including Doha Round agricultural and environmental (...)

Felix Addor serves as the Deputy Director General, Chief Legal Counsel and Director of the Legal & International Affairs Division at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual (...)

Philipp Aerni graduated in Geography and Economics at the University of Zurich and received his PhD from the Institute of Agricultural Economics at ETH Zurich. Subsequently, he (...)

Stanimir A. Alexandrov is the co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s International Arbitration practice. Mr. Alexandrov focuses his practice in the areas of international dispute (...)

Stefanie Allemann has a Bachelor of Law and a Master in International and European Law from the University of Bern. Her Master Thesis focused on the role of international organizations (...)

Judith Ameso completed her undergraduate studies in International Business at Kampala’s Makerere University Business School. Prior to completion of her studies she did an internship (...)

Ms Abena Ampong Ntiamoah holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Social Work (major) and Political Science (minor) from the University of Ghana. After graduation she interned as (...)

Robert Anderson is Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where he leads the Secretariat team supporting the work of the (...)

Dr Appleton is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers (www.appletonluff.com) a boutique international trade and arbitration firm with offices in Brussels, (...)

Patricia Arratíbel Siles graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree with honors from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2010 she was awarded (...)

Marc Auboin is a Counsellor in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO, and a member of the WTO Task Force on the Finance Crisis and Trade. Previously he held several (...)

Dmitry Azarov recently graduated with a double degree in International Relations, with a specialization in Global Political Economy, and French from State University of New York (...)

Faisal Babri graduated with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from GIK Institute, one of South Asia’s top engineering schools. His primary area of interest lies in the challenging (...)

Freya Baetens (Cand.Jur. (Ghent); Lic.Jur. (Ghent); LL.M. (Columbia); Ph.D. (Cambridge)) is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University. She wrote her (...)

Ernst Baltensperger is professor emeritus of macroeconomics at the University of Berne and advisor at the Study Center Gerzensee, where he served as director from 2007 to 2009. He (...)

Dr Lorand Bartels is a University Senior Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches international law, WTO law and EU law. He has (...)

Georges Bauer graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2006, earning degrees in Political Science (International Relations track) and Economics. At the time of his (...)

Gonzalo Bernal Neumann holds a Law degree from the Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru) and a Post-graduate Degree in Concessions and Portuary (...)

Thomas Bernauer is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich. He and his research group are based at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, a joint institution of (...)

Mr. Arpit Bhutani completed his Legum Baccalaureus from Amity Law School, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. His dissertation - 'International Trade in Domestically (...)

Dr Susette Biber-Klemm is a senior research fellow at the WTI. She joined the NCCR’s IP9 of Phase I as alternate leader in March 2007. Before joining the NCCR, she led the five-year (...)

Ewa Bienkowska is a PhD candidate in law at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern. She is Polish by nationality. Ewa will be writing her PhD thesis in the framework of (...)

Amanda Bisong is a lawyer, called to the Nigerian Bar. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in International Trade (...)

Mr. Jan Bohanes joined the ACWL in September 2010.  Previously, he was a member of the Secretariat of the WTO's Appellate Body from 2002 to 2006.  In that capacity, he (...)

Bertram Boie contributes to the research of the current NCCR framework with work on the topic of the regulation of inward investments into the EU. This research analyses options for a (...)

Mr. Romulo Brillo was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is also an Italian citizen. He pursued a career in Law, starting by obtaining an LL.B. in Law from the Rio de (...)

Marco Bronckers (1956) received his legal education in the Netherlands (University of Amsterdam, JD 1979; PhD 1985) and the United States (University of Michigan, LLM 1980). He (...)

Susan Brown-Shafii joined the WTI in October 2005 as Scientific Coordinator for the NCCR project.  From 2002 to 2005, she worked for a consultancy firm in Geneva run by a former (...)

Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi trained in trade law at the Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Berne and the World Trade Institute, where she lectured on WTO (...)

Mira Burri has been a senior research fellow at the World Trade Institute since the very beginning of the NCCR Trade project. During the NCCR Phase 1 (2005-2009), Mira was the (...)

Olivier Cadot holds a Ph.D in Economics from Princeton University and a Masters in Economic History from McGill University. He is currently professor of International Economics and (...)

Mariana Cavezza holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. She interned at the Mexican Chamber of Commerce, as well as the (...)

Ms. Stacey Chen holds Bachelor Degrees in both Law and Economics and a Master of International Law from Wuhan University, China. She also completed Graduate Certificate from Johns (...)

Ryszard Cholewinski is Migration Policy Specialist in the International Migration Programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Prior to joining ILO, he was Senior (...)

A specialist in private international law, Professor Coe's training includes advanced studies in Europe. He received his LL.M. at Exeter, where he was a Rotary International Graduate (...)

Maria Anna Corvaglia joined the NCCR/WP1 as a doctoral candidate in October 2010. Her PhD research, supervised by Prof. Christine Kaufmann (Faculty of Law, University of Zurich), (...)

Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is Professor of European and International Economic Law at (...)

Ali Dadkhah is a Canadian national who holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree and a Juris Doctor from the University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, Canada. He joined the Jessup (...)

William J. Davey retired as the Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in August 2008. He had taught at the College since 1984 and continues to (...)

Panagiotis Delimatsis is Associate Professor of Law at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern. (...)

Salvatore Della Villa III recently graduated from North Carolina State University in the U.S. with a BA in the Philosophy of Law and a minor in Business Administration in 2010. Since (...)

Kuena Diaho is from the Kingdom of Lesotho and holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from the National University of Lesotho as well as a certificate of Intellectual Property Law from (...)

Victor do Prado currently works as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Director-General of the WTO. He previously served as a Counsellor in the WTO Rules Division where he acted as a (...)

Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, LLM, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. He graduated from the University of Munich in 1996 (...)

Cédric Dupont is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic (...)

Roberto Echandi is Director of the Programme on International Investment and member of the Faculty at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, and member of the Faculty at the (...)

Jappe Eckhardt is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern. Before joining the WTI he studied political science (BSc political science and (...)

Lothar Ehring currently is the Assistant to Mr. Péter Balás, Deputy Director-General at the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission, responsible for multilateral (...)

Faith Ugonna Ekwekwuo was born in Jamaica at the height of the Nigerian civil war and moved to Nigeria at age 4. She graduated with a degree in Language Arts from the University of (...)

Manfred Elsig is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern. He studied at the Universities of Bern and Bordeaux and earned a (...)

Simon J. Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In addition to his research into the determinants of (...)

Mohammad Farhad holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies, with a major in Trade and Policy Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His interest in the role of trade (...)

David Farrugia, a dual citizen of the United States and Malta (European Union), has developed both transactional and litigation legal skills in corporate, construction and complex (...)

Carsten Fink is the Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) based in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was Professor of International Economics at the (...)

Justina A.V. Fischer is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute and an Associate Professor at the University of Oradea, and author of more than 100 scholarly publications (...)

Reto Foellmi is Professor of International Economics at the University of St . Gallen and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). He earned his (...)

Marina Foltea is a Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne, Ph.D. candidate for 2010. Over the last three years she has investigated legal aspects of the (...)

Elisa Fornalé joined WP4 as Postdoc Fellow. She is researching on the normative linkages between trade, migration and development issues. She is involved in the organization of the (...)

Katja Gehne studied law and politics in Mannheim, Marburg and Berlin with a focus on international and European law and legal theory. She spent a year at the University Sophia (...)

Raised in Canada, Jin moved to Switzerland in 2008 after completing a Bachelor's degree in International Studies (HBA) from York University, Toronto. Jin started working as a MILE (...)

Andrii Gryshko is a lawyer who graduated from the Institute of Foreign Relations, Kyiv National University, with a Master of International Law. His thesis dealt with the legal (...)

Mr Guan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Accounting from the Anhui University of Finance and Economics, and a Master's Degree in Law from the Renmin University of China. He is (...)

Harsh Hiroo Gursahani obtained a law degree from ILS Law College, Pune, India and was accepted to the Bar Council of India in July 2010. He has also completed diplomas in Business Law (...)

Javier has considerable experience in the negotiation of bilateral preferential trade agreements; throughout his career he has had the opportunity of negotiating with the EU, Canada, (...)

Andrew Guzman is Professor of Law, Director of the Advanced Law Degree Programs, and Associate Dean for International and Executive Education at Berkeley Law School, University of (...)

Christian Häberli is a Senior Research Fellow at the WTI. He works and lectures on various trade, agriculture and development policy issues. His main research topic is food security (...)

Jonas Habich grew up in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. At the age of 18 he spent one year as an exchange student at a Mexican high school and used this chance to learn Spanish. After (...)

Joy Hara has been working at the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Malawi for seven years, focusing on industry and trade analysis and development. His main area of work includes (...)

Sevara Hasanov obtained her law degree with honours in 2009 from the University of Kent in England. Prior to her studies and during her second and third academic years she worked in (...)

Veijo Heiskanen joined Lalive in 2002. He specialises in international arbitration, including investment arbitration and in public international law. He has acted as counsel and (...)

David Herlihy is a Counsel in Skadden’s International Arbitration and Litigation Group, admitted to practice in England, New York and Ireland. He has acted in a wide range of (...)

Jennifer Hillman joined German Marshall Fund (GMF) as a Transatlantic Fellow in February 2008. She was recently approved by the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in (...)

Minh graduated in 2010 from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam where she majored in International Law. Following graduation she worked as a legal assistant for Gide Loyrette Nouel, a (...)

Gaby Hofer took up her job at the WTI in mid-July 2001 as Programme Administrator (a.i.) for the MILE Programme. Since January 2002 she has assisted various Project leaders working as (...)

Regula Hofer is Swiss and holds a BSc degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science). Following (...)

Kateryna Holzer joined NCCR Trade Regulation as an affiliate in 2007 after graduating from MILE 6. As a Candidate of Economic Science she served as Vice Dean at the Ukrainian Academy (...)

Gary Horlick is an international lawyer specializing in matters of international trade in goods or services. He is also a Lecturer at Yale Law School (1983-1986, 2001-present), (...)

Reginald Jones Senior Fellow since 1992, was formerly the Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985–92), senior fellow at the (...)

Ms. Ifeoma Ijemba is a Law graduate from the University of Nigeria who was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2006. Furthermore, she is a fellow of the Maastricht School of Management where (...)

Maura Iliuteanu holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Bucharest. During her undergraduate studies, she developed a strong interest in both international (...)

Stefano Inama is a senior expert at UNCTAD, Integrated Framework (IF) Office of the Coordinator of Least Developed Countries. Mr. Inama has been previously responsible for the (...)

Ambassador Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch is Head of the World Trade, Member of the Executive Board, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Federal Department of (...)

Mr Akihiro Ishimoto was born in Japan and relocated to Melbourne, Australia with his family at the age of twelve. He continued his education, graduating from Monash University in 2010 (...)

John H. Jackson joined the Georgetown faculty after a distinguished career as Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He has served as General Counsel for the (...)

Krystal Yvonne Jean Baptiste originates from the small Caribbean island of Saint Lucia in the West Indies. In 2009 she graduated from Trent University, Ontario, Canada with a BA (Hons) (...)

Dannie Jost works in policy and regulation issues where science, technology and trade are involved. This includes advising federal agencies on the scope of action for nanomaterial (...)

Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret is the Senior Legal Adviser of the program on investment policies with the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise of the United Nations Conference on (...)

Sufian Jusoh is the Manager of WTI Consulting in Malaysia, which focuses on international trade and international investment, especially in biotechnology, green technology, food safety (...)

Tim Kaeser is a Swiss national who recently graduated from the University of Bern with a major in Political Science and minor in International Law. His master thesis focused on the (...)

Máté Kander is originally from Hungary and recently graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest with two Bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and International Business (...)

Barış Karapınar is a Senior Research Fellow and a Co-leader of the NCCR Work Package on Trade, Development and Migration. He has recently been selected by the IPCC (...)

Corinne Karlaganis is the communications officer of NCCR Trade Regulation and the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern. She started working at the WTI in 2006 in (...)

Georg Karlaganis studied chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. After writing his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. R. Schwyzer, Institute of (...)

Christine Kaufmann is a Professor of International, Constitutional and Administrative law at the University of Zurich Law School in Switzerland. After completing her doctoral thesis on (...)

Edwini Kessie works in the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division at the WTO, which has the responsibility for coordinating the negotiations which were launched in Doha, (...)

Hojjat Khademi is the secretary and research assistant of Work Package 3. He has a Bachelor of Law (1995) and Master of International law (2003). At present, he is legal advisor and (...)

Prior to joining the WTI’s MILE 7 class, David Kleimann received his Bachelor degree in Law, Economics and Political Science from Erfurt University in Germany and an LL.M degree in (...)

Kristina Klykova is a Ukrainian lawyer with an LL.B degree from Odessa National Academy of Law, Ukraine. Her studies specialized in Corporate Law, Mediation, and Civil Law and (...)

Born on 11 March 1967, Robert Kolb holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Bern, a post-graduate degree in public international law (Graduate Institute of International and (...)

Viktoriia Kotsiubska holds a Master’s Degree in International Law with Honors from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine. Since graduating she has worked as an (...)

Markus Krajewski is professor of public and international law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). Previously he held positions at the universities of Bremen and Potsdam (...)

Gulmira Kuzhagaliyeva was born in Kazakhstan where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. She later took the Master's (...)

Dr Shaheeza Lalani completed her PhD in private international law at the University of Lausanne. She earned her Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law at McGill University in (...)

Andrew Lang is a Senior Lecturer in Law, teaching Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law.He is a co-founder, with Colin Picker, of the Society of (...)

Azwimpheleli holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Howard College Campus, (...)

Sandra Lavenex is Professor of International Relations and Global Governance at the University of Lucerne and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. She obtained her PhD from the (...)

As of March, 2010, Mr. Lavranos acts as Senior Policy Advisor in the International Trade Section of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, being in charge of all Dutch investment (...)

Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute and a Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law and European Union Law, Queen Mary University of (...)

Dr. Patrick Leblond is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa as well as Research Associate at CIRANO (Montreal). He (...)

Carolina Lenkey graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 2005 with a Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences, majoring in Economics. Her thesis analyzed the effect of (...)

Eric H. Leroux is Senior Counsel and Deputy Director of the Trade Law Bureau, Government of Canada. He advises the Canadian government on a wide range of international trade issues (...)

Sri Ram Letchimanan graduated from Thames Valley University (TVU) and Lincoln’s Inn, London, U.K. For the past 10 years he has worked on financial issues within several Ministries of (...)

Joyce Mmamatlhola Letswalo has a Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Management from the University of Limpopo, South Africa (SA) and an Honours Degree in Agricultural Economics from the (...)

Rachel Liechti-McKee studied law at the University of Bern and graduated in 2001. From 2002 - 2007 she worked as a research fellow for the Institute of European and International (...)

Rachel Liechti has been a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy of the Director at the Institute for European and International Economic Law, University of Bern since 2008. Since 2009 she (...)

Rosa Maria Losada Eiroa is Legal Advisor in the International Agreements Unit of the Federal Office for Migration  (FOM) and PhD candidate in law at the World Trade Institute of (...)

Viktoria graduated from Budapest Eötvös Loránd University with a combined degree in Law and Political Science. At the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) she completed a Master of (...)

Dr Patrick Low is Chief Economist at the World Trade Organization and an Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He worked for GATT from (...)

Martin Magnusson is currently studying a Master of Law at Stockholm University, Sweden and has been admitted to the MILE Programme as an Erasmus (European student exchange) on a one (...)

Mr Ankur Mahanta graduated from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and also holds a Masters in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of (...)

Gabrielle Marceau, Ph.D. is counsellor in the Cabinet of the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy since September 2005. In September 1994, she joined the Legal Affairs Division of the (...)

Alessandro graduated with a Bachelor degree in Political Science and International Relations from the “La Sapienza” Università di Roma in 2008. His  thesis, entitled “The (...)

René Matteotti has been a full professor of Swiss, European and International Tax Law and a director of the Tax Law Institute of the University of Bern since 2007. He also heads the (...)

Sofya Matteotti-Berkutova graduated from the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow with qualification as a Lawyer with knowledge of two foreign languages (English and German) in 2004 (...)

Jean-Christophe Maur is a Senior Economist in the Growth and Competitiveness Program at the World Bank Institute. His current responsibilities in WBI include leading the regional (...)

Mr Nana Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, and raised in Norway. His background contributed to shaping his worldview and motivated him to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Development (...)

Melanie Mettler offers academic language training, editing and coaching in English to PhD students at the WTI/NCCR. She works with doctoral students to identify difficulties in their (...)

Karolina Milewicz is a post-doctoral fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne, Switzerland. She completed her PhD thesis in Political Science at the University of Bern in (...)

Jorge Miranda is the Principal International Trade Advisor at King & Spalding LLP. Mr. Miranda is an economist with 15 years of experience in the area of trade remedies. He is (...)

Dineo Moledi graduated from the University of the Witswatersrand with a Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences and from the University of Johannesburg with Honours in Human Resources. (...)

Jean Abel Msabila is an Economist at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Marketing in the Department of Trade Integration under the section of Bilateral Cooperation programs, Tanzania. (...)

Lilya Mukhamedzhanova graduated from Kazan State University, Russia in 2006 with a major in International Relations. During her university years, Lilya interned at the Ministry of (...)

Jane Müller, a Swiss native, took up the position as Research Fellow in November 2007 and takes care of the distance learning programme and courses. She is also working on her PhD on (...)

Hanna Mykolska obtained her Master’s Degree in Law, specializing in civil law and procedure, from Lviv National University, Ukraine in 2009. Student activities include head of the (...)

Anara Myrzaeva graduated from American University of Central Asia in Bishkek in 2011, holding Bachelor's Degree in Economics. During her studies she completed several internships, (...)

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer is a Professor of International Law at the University of Basel. Teaching currently in the areas of WTO law and international investment law, Professor (...)

Olga Nartova has been a research fellow at the World Trade Institute since 2007. She is a co-leader of Work Package 5 on Trade and Climate Change in Swiss National Centre of Competence (...)

A trade lawyer with a specialisation in WTO rules, Ms. Neufeld joined the World Trade Organization in early 2001. As the Secretary of the Negotiating Group on Trade Facilitation, she (...)

Chi-Le Ngo holds a BA in International Trade and Business from the Foreign Trade University in Vietnam. After graduation she completed a 6 month internship with the Economics and Trade (...)

Thao graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations. As a student, she represented Vietnam in the 7th ELSA Moot Court (...)

Bernard O’Connor has been practicing EU and WTO law for more than 25 years. In that time he has argued more than 60 cases before the EU Courts in Luxembourg and participated in (...)

Daniel Odermatt joined the University of Bern as head of administration and member of the board of directors in 2004. He is in charge of finances, human resources, information (...)

Manuel Oechslin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the WTI and the Department of Economics, University of Bern. He studied in Zurich and Berlin and earned a PhD in Economics (...)

Matthias Oesch is Assistant Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Berne. Furthermore, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (...)

Stephen Mickson Opoku holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Ghana. His studies have specialized in International Economic (...)

In 2008, George graduated with a Law Degree from Warwick, one of the top English Universities. While studying at Warwick, George’s interest in politics and development was (...)

Adamu A. Pam has an LLM (2007); LLM (2002); BL (1995); LLB (1993) from the Torino Law School, the Nigerian Law School and the University of Jos, Nigeria. He currently teaches (...)

Marion Panizzon is Assistant Professor of International Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern and the WTI. She studied law at the University of Fribourg, obtained (...)

Tetyana Payosova graduated from the National University “Odessa Law Academy”, Ukraine in 2007 and has a Master of Law degree (2009) from the University of Bern, (...)

Mr. Piérola is counsel at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) in Geneva, Switzerland.  In this position, he represents developing country governments in WTO dispute settlement (...)

Jacquiline Pimer joined the WP1.5 team of NCCR Trade Regulation in September 2010 as a research assistant. Her research is conducted under the supervision of Professor Rolf Weber; the (...)

Christian Pitschas is a partner at MSBH Rechtsanwälte. Christian advises and represents clients on all matters relating to trade in goods and services, in particular in the areas of (...)

In 2005 Susan Plattner took up her position as Academic Language and Learning Advisor for students on the MILE programme. A teacher with 20 years` experience in the field of academic (...)

Dr Nicole Pohl held the position of Director of Studies at the WTI in 2006 and 2007. In November 2007 she took up a position as Director of Master Programmes with Zurich University of (...)

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Iryna Polovets holds a Bachelor's degree in Maritime Law from Odessa National Maritime Academy and a Master's degree in International Economic Law from (...)

Shishir Priyadarshi is one of the Directors of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. He heads the Development Division of the WTO, whose mandate is to facilitate work on all trade (...)

Darius Rao holds a BA of International Relations from the University of Geneva and recently graduated from the World Trade Institute with a Master of International Law & Economics (...)

Kenneth Raphael served as in-house counsel with several US-based, Fortune 500 companies for more than 25 years before relocating to Geneva, Switzerland in 2002. He is currently a (...)

Born and raised in Bern, Switzerland to an English father and Swiss mother, Joel started working at the WTI as a Summer Academy and MILE Fellow in July 2010. He holds a Bachelor's (...)

Maryse Robert is chief of the Office of Trade in the Department of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS). (...)

Ms Rodriguez holds a law degree from the Universidad Católica de Bolivia and a Master's degree in International Economic Relations and Integration from the Universidad Mayor de San (...)

Miguel A. Rodriguez Cuadros is a lawyer who graduated Suma Cum Laude from the University of Lima. Post graduate Master Studies took him to the Freie Universität Berlin where he (...)

Dr Luca Rubini is a lecturer in law at Birmingham Law School, UK, where he teaches WTO law, EU law and EU competition law. Previously, he was lecturer at the University of Leicester (...)

Michele Ruta is an economist in the Economic Research Division of the WTO. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 2004 and has been a Fellow at the European (...)

Sheila Sabune earned a Masters in International Law & Economics from the World Trade Institute, Berne Switzerland, a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Bar Course) from the (...)

Lisa Salcedo-Pfeiffer joined the WP4 team of the NCCR Trade Regulation in February 2010 as a doctoral research fellow. Her PhD thesis in law and political science will be conducted (...)

Cristina Sanchez Rocha obtained a Bachelor Degree in Social Science with a major in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del (...)

Lisa Sandén is an Erasmus (European exchange) student from the University of Stockholm in Sweden where she is currently studying for a Bachelor of Law degree. Her participation in the (...)

Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute (WTI), in Berne, Switzerland, where he also directs research on preferential trade under (...)

Michael Schmid, Attorney-at-Law, LL.M., is Deputy Head of the "International Investments and Multinational Enterprises" Unit at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (...)

Erich Schwarz took up his position as Communications Officer at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern and also the NCCR Trade Regulation in September 2011. After (...)

Heike Schweitzer is professor for private law, European economic law and competition law at the University of Mannheim (Germany) since February 2010. From 2006-2010, she held the chair (...)

Nazym Shalbayeva graduated with a Diploma with honors, specializing in International Economic Relations, from the Kazakh State Academy of Management, Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2000. From (...)

Anirudh Shingal is a Senior Research Fellow at the WTI, Co-leader of the NCCR Trade work programme on the impact assessment of trade and part of the faculty on the MILE (...)

Charlotte started her PhD in law on South–South preferential trade in services in 2009 and is enrolled at the University of Bern. The PhD is funded by the Swiss National Science (...)

Dr Valéria Silva, a Brazilian national, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme. She has previously worked for the Brazilian (...)

Victoria Simon graduated from the Catholic University of Lille with a Bachelor's degree in Law and European Law and a Master in International and European Law. She then decided to take (...)

Marta Soprana graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in International Relations, followed by a Master’s Degree in International Trade and Business from the Italian (...)

Agne Sovaite holds a Bachelor of laws degree and a Master’s degree in business law from the Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.Her studies specialized in trade law, (...)

Wulfhard Stahl is the librarian of the World Trade Institute, of the NCCR Trade Regulation research project as well as of the Institute of European and International Economic Law (IEW) (...)

Ms Gretchen Heimpel Stanton is a Senior Counsellor in the Agriculture and Commodities Division of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She joined the Secretariat of (...)

Christian Steiger took up his job at the WTI in June 2005 as IT-Supporter for the WTI and the NCCR. He spent several years working as a System Administrator in the field of Healthcare. (...)

Dr. Sherry M. Stephenson is head of institutional relations at the Organization of American States and an advisor on migration policy. She has worked for many years in international (...)

Hal Sutherland is participating in the first term of the MILE Programme as an exchange student from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada where he will complete his (...)

Ms Sainabou Taal graduated in 2008 with honors from the University of Toronto for a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a double minor in History and Geography. During her study she was (...)

Wakako Takatori, a Japanese national, had taken a creativity break from her work as an in-house legal counsel at The Walt Disney Company in Tokyo to pursue the challenging MILE (...)

Vladimir Talanov holds a Bachelor’s Degree, cum laude, and a Master’s Degree in Law from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia. In 2006 he also obtained a Master’s Degree, (...)

Stefan Tangermann was until end-2008 Director for Trade and Agriculture at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris. He is now a retired professor at (...)

Manuel Antonio J. Teehankee was Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment sitting in Special Session (CTESS) from 2008 to October 2011, and had delivered as Chair in April as (...)

Fitzgerald Temmerman holds a 'Licentiate in Law' from Ghent University in Belgium (2003), and an 'LL.M. in International Law' from the University of (...)

Michelangelo Temmerman, native of Belgium, joined NCCR Trade Regulation at its very beginning. Before this, he completed studies at the universities of Ghent and Bern, where he (...)

Kairat Torebayev graduated from Kazakh State Academy of Management in 2000. He began his career as an economist at the Statistic Data Centre of the Almaty Region and in 2001 he joined (...)

Alberto Trejos is a Costa Rican economist, who got his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. An active researcher in macroeconomics, international trade and development (...)

Elisabeth Tuerk is a Legal Expert in UNCTAD's Section on International Investment Agreements (IIA) in UNCTAD's Division on Investment and Enterprise. UNCTAD's IA Section is (...)

Thomas Tzieropoulos is a lawyer, holding both Swiss and Greek citizenships. He graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Law (MLaw) degree specialising in International and (...)

Víctor Umaña has a Master’s degree in International Law and Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from the World Trade Institute, University of Bern and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in (...)

Benjamin Utter completed his undergraduate studies with a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in May 2007. After graduation he joined Abacus Financial Advisors (...)

“Craig VanGrasstek,” according to The Economist, “keeps a sharp eye on the politics of trade” (January 22, 2000). He has worked as a consultant in nearly four dozen countries (...)

Maria del Carmen Vasquez graduated magna cum laude from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Law School. Her thesis analysed the scope of the fair and equitable treatment standard (...)

Nadia Vassos graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences with Honours in International Development and Globalization. As part of her degree she (...)

Paolo R. Vergano is a partner at FratiniVergano - European Lawyers (www.fratinivergano.eu) and a member of the firm’s Trade Group. His practice focuses on international trade law (...)

Gaëtan Verhoosel is a partner in the firm’s London office. His practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. Mr. Verhoosel has acted as counsel in numerous (...)

Edwin Vermulst has practiced international trade law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding partner of Vermulst Verhaeghe Graafsma & Bronckers (...)

Since September 2005, Margrit has been responsible for oversight of the administrative function in the WTI's National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR). In January 2002, she was (...)

Ngan Vu obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, with a specialization in International Business Law, from the Foreign Trade University (FTU) Hanoi, Vietnam. During (...)

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent is Senior Economic Officer under the Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was an economist at (...)

Rufus H. Yerxa has served as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2002. He has an extensive record as an international trade negotiator, diplomat and (...)

Karina Zaur, a native of Kazakhstan, obtained a Bachelor's degree in International Law from Kazakh Humanitarian Law University and in 2006, won a presidential scholarship from the (...)

Ms Fanfan Zhang obtained her Juris Master degree in 2010 from Wuhan University in China. In three years' study,she learned many laws and got good grades in most courses. Her main (...)

Samal Zharylgassynkyzy holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Customs Administration from the Eurasian National University of Astana, Kazakhstan. In 2009 she completed a Master’s (...)