Special Lectures

Special lectures at the WTI, with links to presentations when available:

1 December 2021, Marc Bungenberg, Director of the Europa Institut and Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at Saarland University: "Enhancing the International Rule of Law through the Establishment of an MIC", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Recording here (access code: Yr@p9z4E)

9 November 2021, Gabrielle Marceau, Associate Professor, University of Geneva; Senior Counsellor, Economic Research Division, WTO Secretariat: "A New (Life for the) WTO", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series
Recording here.

15 September 2021, Prof. em. dr. Chang-fa Lo, Permanent Representative to the WTO of the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu: "From Addressing Trade Distortion to Correcting Environmental Distortion: The Fisheries Subsidies Negotiation as the Turning Point of the WTO’s Task", Opening Ceremony of the 2021-22 Advanced Master's Programmes

23 June 2021, SECO Roundtable on Trade, Climate Change and SDGs (Event organised by the State's Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO), supported by CDE & WTI)

6 May 2021, H.E. Santiago Wills, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the WTO: "WTO Negotiations on Prohibiting Harmful Fisheries Subsidies from the Chair’s perspectives", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

22 April 2021, Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat: "Updates on the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

25 March 2021, Paola Mariani, Associate Professor of International Law, Bocconi University, and Giorgio Sacerdoti, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Bocconi University: "The Trade in Goods Chapter of the new EU/UK Trade Deal: Back to the Past", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

11 March 2021, H.E. Didier Chambovey, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to WTO: "Switzerland's Trade Policy: Multilateral and Bilateral Processes", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

Special lectures at the WTI, with links to presentations when available:

14 December 2020, Nora Neufeld, Secretary of the WTO Committee on Trade Facilitation: "Breaking New Ground - An Introduction to the WTO Agreement on Facilitation and its Implementation", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

7 December 2020, Chern-Chyi Chen, Taiwan's Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs: "Post COVID-19: Taiwan and Global Economic Governance" Global Economic Seminar Series

17 November 2020, Thomas Bernauer, Professor of Political Science at ETH Zurich: "How are International Trade and the Environment related? A Public Opinion Perspective", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

26 October 2020, Victor do Prado, Director, Council and TNC Division, World Trade Organization: "Proposals on WTO Reform", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

12 October 2020, Gabrielle Marceau, Senior Counsellor, WTO Secretariat, and Associate Professor, University of Geneva: "Tensions and Changes in WTO Geopolitics", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

28 September 2020, Victor do Prado, Director, Council and TNC Division, World Trade Organization: "WTO Governance - Overview and Development", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

10 March 2020, Gabrielle Marceau, Senior Counsellor, WTO Secretariat, and Associate Professor, University of Geneva: "The Trade and ... Debate Today", Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

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”, Global Economic Governance Seminar Series

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

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