The WTI is pleased to host a series of special lectures delivered by experts and open to the public.
See the Events listing for more infomation.
Information about the 2020 Global Economic Governance Seminar Series will be available soon.
Special Lectures
Lectures at the WTI
2019 lectures
Special lectures at the WTI, with links to presentations when available:
16 December 2019, Stefanie Walter, Full Professor for International Relations and Political Economy, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich: “Renegotiating the terms of international cooperation”.
13 December 2019, Lothar Ehring, Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission: Trade Wars and WTO Crisis, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series.
3 December 2019, Victor do Prado, Director, Council and TNC Division, World Trade Organization: Trade Policy Making and the WTO Part II, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
2 December 2019, Simone Dietrich, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva: The Politics of Official Development Aid and Aid Flows, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
4 November 2019, Didier Chambovey, head of the Swiss Permanent Mission to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva: Switzerland and the Multilateral Trading System, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
28 October 2019, Susan Emmenegger, professor of law and the director of the Institute of Banking Law, University of Bern: Recent Developments in International Monetary and Financial Law and Policy, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
14 October 2019, Maarten Smeets, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC) at the WTO: WTO Technical Assistance, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
16 September 2019, Victor do Prado, Director, Council and TNC Division, World Trade Organization: Trade Policy Making and the WTO Part I – Politics of WTO Ministerial Conferences, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
29 May 2019, Victoria Donaldson, Legal Deputy Director at Department for International Trade, UK Government: UK Trade Policy after Brexit, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
24 May 2019, Nilüfer Oral, Member of the UN ILC and Law Faculty of Istanbul Bilgi University: Gender Equality in the United Nations system: A closer look at the International Law Commission. Global Economic Governance Seminar Series and WTI Know the GAP lecture
15 May 2019, Edwini Kessie, Director, Agriculture and Commodities Division, WTO: New Developments on Regional Integration, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
1 May 2019 , Dr. Mira Burri, Managing Director Steering Committee Internationalisation (SCI) and Senior Lecturer, University of Lucerne: International Regulation on E-Commerce, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
10 April 2019, Prof. Robert Anderson, Counsellor in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the Secretariat of the WTO: The Relationship Between Trade and Competition Law, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
3 April 2019, Matthew Wilson, Chief of Staff and Chief Adviser to the Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC): Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Presentation: Small is Beautiful: What does the current special and differential treatment discussion mean for small states?
20 March 2019, Pierre Sauvé, Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank Group: Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Presentation: New Developments in Services Trade II
13 March 2019, Pierre Sauvé, Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank Group: Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Presentation: New Developments in Services Trade I
6 March 2019, Stephen de Boer, Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO): Strengthening and Modernizing the World Trade Organization, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
2018 and earlier
Special lectures at the WTI, with links to presentations when available:
14 December 2018, Lothar Ehring, Senior Expert in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade: National security safeguards, trade wars and WTO dispute settlement in crisis, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
11 December 2018, Hong Zhao, Member of the WTO Appellate Body: China and the multilateral trading system, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
3 December 2018, Victor do Prado, Director of Council and TNC Division at the WTO: Negotiation and decision-making in the WTO II, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
26 November 2018, Susan Emmenegger, Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute of Banking Law at Bern University: Recent developments in international monetary and financial law and policy, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
20 November 2018, Ujal Singh Bhatia, Member of the WTO Appellate Body: India and the multilateral trading system, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
13 November 2018, Didier Chambovey, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO: Switzerland and the multilateral trading system, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
7 November 2018, Thomas Graham, Member of the WTO Appellate Body: US and the multilateral trading system, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
6 November 2018, Victor do Prado, Director of Council and TNC Division at the WTO. Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Presentation: Negotiation and decision-making in the WTO I
30 October 2018, Shree Servansing, Member of the WTO Appellate Body: Defending Development: The Politics of Developing Country Coalitions at the WTO, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
22 October 2018, Muliaman Hadad, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Presentation: Global financial reform and crisis management protocols: Indonesia's Experience
13 September 2018, Ambassador Markus Schlagenhof, Delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements and head of the World Trade Division in the Foreign Economic Affairs Directorate, SECO. Graduate programmes opening ceremony.
Presentation: The Shape of International Trade to Come: Challenges and Opportunities
29 June 2018, Ambassador Alan Wolff, Deputy Director-General, WTO. Graduate programmes closing ceremony.
Presentation: The Rule of Law in an Age of Conflict
25 April 2018, Stephen de Boer, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO. Special lecture.
Presentation: Canada's Progressive Trade Agenda
23 June 2017, Marc Vanheukelen, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the WTO. MILE closing ceremony.
Presentation: Winning the Argument on Trade
22 June 2017, Francois Crépeau, Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, and Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. Special lecture.
Presentation: Populism and Migration: The Need for a Principled Response to Migration Challenges
16 September 2016, Peter Van den Bossche, Director of Studies WTI and former WTO Appellate Body Member. Graduate programmes opening ceremony.
Presentation: Introduction at MILE 17 opening ceremony