Lecturers:

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 interational commercial flows, Professor Evenett is particularly interested in the relationships between international trade policy, national competition law and policy, and economic development. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. Professor Evenett has been a (non-resident) Senior Fellow of the Economic Studies Programme in the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Previously, he has taught at Oxford University and Rutgers University as well as serving twice as a World Bank official. His writings can be downloaded from www.evenett.com. Professor Evenett also coordinates the independent trade policy monitoring exercise, www.globaltradealert.org.

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 positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was Deputy-Secretary General of the Monetary Committee of the European Union, worked for the French Treasury. Mr. Auboin holds a PhD in Economics from Sciences-po Paris, and was a research fellow at the London School of Economics, and Yale University. He now lectures at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland and at CERDI in France, and used to lecture at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Sciences-po Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Oxford. He published pieces of research on trade and finance issues in the IMF's World Economic Outlook, and in WTO Discussion and Working Paper Series.

Nicolas Imboden, a Swiss national, holds a degree in law from the University of Geneva, a degree in development studies from the then African Development Institute, and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.  He was also an AMP student at Harvard.
Mr. Imboden is a partner and cofounder of the IDEAS Centre in Geneva. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of SGS (1999-2002), a Swiss Government trade and aid official with the rank of an ambassador (1992-1999), Governor of the regional development banks (ADB, AFDB, IDB) and Executive Director at the EBRD (1992). He was the Swiss negotiator for market access and agriculture during the Uruguay Round negotiations (1987-1992). He also worked in the World Bank as an agricultural economist (1978-1982), in the OECD as a researcher on aid monitoring (1974-1978), and at the UNDP as a Program Officer in Chad (1972-1974).
Mr. Imboden has been a member of various Expert Groups of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and of the UNDP Human Development Report.

Cost: CHF 1’250.-

Registration date: 3 May 2010