On 30 April, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized an internal briefing on“New Role of the WTO”. This session is moderated by Stuart Harbinson, FMG member and former Chief Representative of HK China to the WTO.

 

Gabrielle Marceau, Professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and former legal adviser in international disputes, in the Cabinet of Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Economic Research and Statistics Division at the WTO shared her insights on the new roles of the WTO in face of global challenges, and the new ways of WTO work. Then the participants had a discussion.

 

23 FMG members in total participated in this briefing.

 

Annex: List of participants

Stuart Harbinson

Xiankun Lu 

Willy Alfaro

Mercedes Araoz

Henry Gao  

Ignacio Garcia Bercero

Clemens Boonekamp

Alejandro Jara

Masamichi Kono

Robert Koopman  

Siqi Li

Janet

Mario Matus

Maxim Medvedkov

Mia Mikic  

Brad McDonald  

Rosine Plank

Mohammad Saeed

André Sapir

Sherry Stephenson

Xinquan Tu

John Weekes  

Alan Wolff