Sauvé Pierre

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 the NCCR-Trade project. He holds Visiting Professor appointments at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and at the University of Barcelona, whose LL.M. program in international economic law and policy (IELPO) he advises. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques’ (Sciences-Po) in Paris, France in 2003-04 and at the London School of Economics in 2008. He served as a senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993 to 2002, a period during which he also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1998-2000). Prior to joining the OECD, he served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations (1991-93). He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) as well as the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (1987-88). Mr. Sauvé was educated in economics and international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in Canada as well as at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. He has advised the governments of a number of OECD and developing countries and served as a consultant to leading regional and multilateral agencies involved in trade, finance and development. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, is a Consulting Editor on the Advisory Group of the Journal of International Business Studies and a Member of the Review Committee of UNCTAD’s Series on International Investment and Development. He served as a member of the Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System in 2007.