POLICY AND PRACTICE - Can the multilateral trade regime survive geopolitical tensions? An agenda for WTO reform.

POLICY AND PRACTICE - Can the multilateral trade regime survive geopolitical tensions? An agenda for WTO reform.

About the speakers

Ignacio Garcia Bercero participated in the Uruguay Round negotiations that led to the establishment of the World Trade Organizations. Between 2001 and 2005, he headed the unit in the European Commission responsible for WTO dispute settlement. Since 2005, he has been Director in DG trade where, among other responsibilities, he was chief negotiator for the EU-Korea Free Trade agreement, the EU-India Free Trade agreement and the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Ignacio is currently director for multilateral trade policy and strategy and is Visiting Professor at UCL’s School of Public Policy.

Stephen Adams is Senior Director in advisory firm Global Counsel. He has more than 15 years of experience in European and British public policy and regulation, chiefly in the field of international economic policy. He has also been an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs International, based in London. Stephen is Senior Research Associate at UCL’s School of Public Policy.

Chair: Professor Lauge Poulsen, Professor in International Relations and Law, UCL Department of Political Science

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