Renata Vargas Amaral is an experienced international trade lawyer, with an extensive and proven record of successful engagement at the World Trade Organization (WTO), bilateral and regional trade negotiations, domestic trade policy and market access. Over the course of her fifteen-year career, she has advised governments and private stakeholders on international trade matters, with a focus on WTO law. She currently serves as Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law, where she co-directs the certificate programme on WTO and US Trade Law and Policy. Dr Amaral is a Senior Consultant, the Vice-Chair of the ABCI Institute – a non-profit organization of international trade scholars headquartered in Washington, DC, and the founder of Women Inside Trade, a non-profit international organization that aims to contribute to the empowerment of women through its global network of professionals, specialized training and leadership development. She holds a PhD from Maastricht University (Netherlands) and the title of Doctor of Laws (sum cum laude) from the Federal University of Santa Carina – UFSC (Brazil), a LLM in international business law from Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a LLB from USFC. She is a frequent public speaker, and has published a book and several papers.
Amrita Bahri is Associate Professor of International Trade Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Co-chair Professor for the WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico). Amrita has published in the areas of international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, public–private partnership for capacity-building in emerging economies, regional trade and gender justice. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) and the Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI). Amrita has been appointed by the European Commission to the pool of candidates to chair the Expert Panel Proceedings on Trade and Sustainable Development. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown University. Working with the International Trade Centre’s team, Amrita has designed the very first framework to measure the gender responsiveness of free trade agreements. She explains this framework in ITC’s policy paper titled ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements’.
Tonni Brodber is the Representative of the UN Women Multi-Country Office – Caribbean. Prior to her appointment in August 2020, Ms Brodber served as Deputy Representative from 2015 to 2020 with the MCO Caribbean. Before this, she was the Team Leader for the Advancing Gender Justice in the Pacific programme with the UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office. Ms Brodber served as the Gender Specialist for the United Nations Development Programme in South Africa, as well as briefly with the UN Women South Africa Multi-Country Office and established what is now the UN Women Country Office in Haiti. Her work experience also includes lecturing in International Relations and Development Studies at Yanshan University in China, and directing and co-producing, a film on Haiti.
Javiera Cáceres Bustamante is an instructor professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile. She holds a BA in English Literature and Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a MA in International Strategy and Trade Policy from the University of Chile. She has been a consultant for the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Chilean Under-Secretariat of International Economic Affairs on international trade and trade policy issues. Her main research interests are gender and trade, intellectual property, and trade policy.
Lillyana Sophia Daza Jaller currently works in the International Trade Unit of the World Bank, where she advises developing countries on regulatory issues related to digital trade. Prior to joining the World Bank, she served as Law Clerk at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, DC. Her experience also includes working as a Summer Associate at BMJ Consultores Associados, where she collaborated with research, writing, and lobbying efforts for World Trade Organization disputes on behalf of Brazil. Lillyana received her Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law as well as a Certification of Information Privacy Professional from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She volunteers on a pro bono basis for Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services in order to use her legal skills in the service of others.
Anoush der Boghossian is the WTO Gender Policy Adviser and the Head of Trade and Gender in the WTO. She was appointed as the WTO’s first trade and gender expert by former Director-General Roberto Azevêdo in 2017. She is one of the co-authors of the WTO/World Bank report on ‘Women and Trade’ and has published many articles and working papers on trade and gender. With four other experts, she organized and delivered a panel at Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) 2021 Milan Global Conference on ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Trade and Investment Agreements: Best Practice Examples and the Missing Elements’. Anoush is a senior staff member of the WTO with fifteen years’ experience in the Organization. Prior to her current responsibilities, she worked as the French-language spokesperson of the WTO, as the press officer to the former Director-General Pascal Lamy and to the former Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza. She also served the WTO as the NGO Liaison Officer and managed the WTO Public Forum for four years. Anoush began her career at the WTO in 2006 after acquiring ten years of professional experience in the private sector, in Brussels, working on EU policies as a public relations specialist. Among her educational achievements, she holds a Master’s in European and International Law and a Master’s in Communications. Among her personal achievements, she is a member of the ‘Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin’, Chateau Clos de Vougeot (Burgundy, France) and she is an experienced diver.
Judit Fabian’s work centres upon the idea of democratic global economic governance, which she is developing under the framework of inclusive global institutionalism. Her research has led to numerous academic and policy contributions in Canada and internationally, including presentations, authorship, and engagement with governments, arms-length organizations, and intergovernmental organizations. She co-authored the most downloaded Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) paper of 2017, concerning the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She has also published on the question of preferential trade agreements versus multilateralism (2020) and is a proud contributor to the Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism (2020) with a chapter on global governance. Judit is currently a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and is a member of the core group of the recently formed Gender Research Hub of the World Trade Organization (Switzerland). She completed a post-doctoral appointment at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, earned her PhD in political science at Carleton University, and her MA in political studies from Queen’s University.
Vineet Hegde is a doctoral researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is a teaching assistant in the Law of the WTO at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, and also coaches the university’s teams for the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. Vineet manages the Oxford Reports on International Trade Law Decisions, and supervises master theses on international economic law at the university. He has previously worked with the Government of India. Vineet holds an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. He has published in the areas of international trade law in journals such as Journal of International Economic Law and the Cambridge International Law Journal.
Katrin Kuhlmann is Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the President and Founder of the New Markets Lab, a non-profit law and development centre. She is also a Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and serves as a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the Bretton Woods Committee. Her work and research focus on trade and development and comparative economic law, and she has developed a methodology for the design and implementation of inclusive trade rules. She was previously Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and the Yeutter Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance. Earlier in her career, she served as a trade negotiator at USTR and a lawyer at two international law firms, and she has held senior positions with several non-profit organizations and think tanks, including the Aspen Institute and German Marshall Fund. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics.
Dorotea López is Director and Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile. She holds a BA in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University and a PhD in Social Science from the University of Chile. Prior to joining the university she served in the Chilean Directorate of International Economic Affairs, the Mexican Economy Secretariat, and the Bank of Mexico. Her main research areas are trade policy and trade in services. She holds the Chilean WTO Chair and is part of the Chilean Foreign Policy Forum.
Mia Mikic is a trade economist with a keen interest in sustainable development and with a proven track record and experience in academia and international civil service. She is a board member of the Friends of Multilateralism Group and an Advisor at Large for the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an open network of research and academic institutions and think tanks in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Asian Studies, the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, and a Research Fellow at the Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Previously, she was Director for the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division in United Nations ESCAP (2017–2021), and has performed other functions in the UN (2005–2017). She was also Head of the Department of Economic Theory, Professor of International Economics and Director of Economic and Business International Programme at the University of Zagreb (2001–2005) following various other positions (1978–1988).
Felipe Muñoz Navia is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile and Invited Researcher at Fudan Development Institute, China. He holds a BA in Economics and MA in International Studies, both from the University of Chile, and is PhD Fellow at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. His main research areas are trade policy and international economics, with particular emphasis on Latin America. He has participated in various research projects, including the WTO Chairs Programme and UNCTAD’s Virtual Institute, and acted as a consultant for the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the Chilean Under-Secretariat of International Economic Affairs, amongst others.
Marie-France Paquet has been the Chief Economist and Director General, Trade Analysis Bureau, at Global Affairs Canada since September 2017. As Chief Economist, she leads a team of analysts in reporting and advising on international trade, investment and economic issues. Current economic research and analysis projects include the impact of trade agreements on labour and gender, the determinants of export for SMEs, the impact of the Trade Commissioner Services on Canadian exporters’ performance, or the impact of foreign direct investment on the economy, the vulnerability of Canadian supply chains, and the impact of COVID-19 on trade. Dr Paquet received her PhD in Econometrics from Université Laval jointly with Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Michelle Parkouda is Manager, Research at the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). She is responsible for leading research to demonstrate the economic and social value of standardization. She co-leads the gender strategy at SCC and is heading a project team at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe drafting guidance on developing gender-responsive standards. Michelle has published research on the topics of gender, diversity, and trade. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from McGill University.
Jan Yves Remy is Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services (SRC) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, where she lectures in the SRC’s flagship Master’s in International Trade Policy Programme and conducts research on trade law, WTO reform, gender and trade, dispute settlement regimes, regional integration, climate change and e-commerce Her doctoral thesis focused on the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice in promoting Caribbean regional integration. She is also the WTO Chair for the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados), has been nominated as a panellist on two WTO disputes, and has been included on the list of arbitrators under EU and UK FTA dispute settlement mechanisms. She serves on a number of boards, including as Board Member of the Interim Board for Caribbean Women in Trade, as well as on the Executive Committee for TradeLab.
Maria V. Sokolova is an international trade expert with specialization in monetary aspects of trade integration, regionalism, and gender, currently at the International Institute in Geneva. She has experience in various international organizations, academia, and the private sector, and her empirical research has been published in peer-reviewed journals. She holds a PhD in International Economics and Law from the Graduate Institute, MSc from the University of St Andrews, and BSc from Russian Economic Academy. As a member of the Trade Experettes, Maria is an advocate for women’s representation and empowerment in trade policy.
Amalie Giødesen Thystrup is Head of Section with the Danish Energy Agency. In the role of project manager, she is part of the team tasked with bringing the world’s first energy islands to life. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. Amalie holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen (2018), awarded for a dissertation on trade in services. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), the WTO, and the Graduate Institute (IHEID), and she has been a stagiaire with the EU’s Mission to the WTO. Amalie has practised law in Denmark, and is admitted to the Bar in New York. She holds Master’s degrees in Law from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, NY (2012), and the University of Copenhagen (2011). Her scientific focus spans international trade law, sustainability, trade and gender, services, FDI, transport, and e-commerce.
Pieter Van Vaerenbergh is a trade and customs lawyer at Fieldfisher Brussels. He is also a teaching assistant in EU law at the Institute for European Law of KU Leuven and a lecturer at the Europa-Institut, Saarland University. Previously, Pieter was a research associate and PhD candidate at Saarland University, where his research and teaching activities focused on EU trade defence, sustainable trade law, and international dispute resolution. His work has appeared in, inter alia, the Journal of World Trade and the Journal of International Arbitration. Pieter also serves as an editorial board member of the Zeitschrift for Europarechtliche Studien (ZEuS) and coaches the Vis Moot team of Saarland University. Pieter graduated in law from Ghent University and obtained an LLM degree in International and European Law from the Europa-Institut, Saarland University. During his studies, he also interned at the European Court of Justice and the OECD.
Georgina Wainwright-Kemdirim is a senior official at Global Affairs Canada. She serves as lead negotiator of Canada’s inclusive trade chapters in trade agreements, including Trade and Gender, and leads on the implementation of those in-force chapters. She was Canada’s lead negotiator for the new Global Trade and Gender Arrangement recently signed by Canada and its Inclusive Trade Action Group partners – New Zealand and Chile. She is also Canada’s Gender Focal Point for trade policy and negotiations and developed Canada’s new approach for applying a comprehensive Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) to trade negotiations and final agreements.
Gabrielle White is a senior trade policy analyst currently working for the Government of Canada, where she leads a standards secretariat for the Department of Natural Resources. She previously worked as a programme manager for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), where her work focused on standards and conformance, and oversaw SCC’s input on the standardization components of Canada’s FTAs and regulatory cooperation. In addition to her work in trade policy, Gabrielle is responsible for spearheading SCC’s gender and standardization strategy, and continues to lead key initiatives in this area. She holds a Master’s in Sociology.
Matthew Wilson is the Chief of Special Projects at the International Trade Centre. He has held various roles including Chief of Staff at the ITC, Senior Adviser to the WTO Director General, Deputy Aid for Trade Coordinator at the WTO, and Trade and Human Rights negotiator for the Government of Barbados. He was the first ‘Friend of the Chair’ for the special and differential treatment negotiations of the Trade Facilitation Agreement. He holds degrees in Psychology, International Relations, and Development Studies, and is a Chevening Scholar. He is an innovation, diversity, and inclusion champion at the ITC.
Simonetta Zarrilli is Chief of the Trade, Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a programme she has been leading since 2010. An experienced trade analyst with a long and successful career at the UN, Simonetta has worked on many trade issues, including preferential trade schemes; health, environment, and energy services; trade and biotechnology and renewable energies. She has carried out numerous analytical, intergovernmental, and technical cooperation activities on these issues, and has authored and coordinated many publications. Ms Zarrilli holds a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium) and a degree in Law from the University of Siena (Italy). She is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, apart from her native Italian.
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