On 30 April, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized a webinar on MC14 and WTO Reform.
At the session, Sofia Boza, former Ambassador of Chile to the WTO; Valerie Picard, Friend of FMG and Head of Trade at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Simon Evenett, FMG member and Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD shared their insights on the outcomes of MC14, the current situation and ways forward of WTO reform etc and then answered the questions from the participants.
About 60 participants joined the session, including members of FMG, Ambassadors/DPRs of WTO members, representatives from related international organizations, and experts from renowned think tanks and universities etc.
Watch this session via YouTube: https://youtu.be/7YRoHqwpRtc?si=v8zRA7sRly5Mcmfe
Intervention by Simon J. Evenett is available here:
Annex 1:
16:00-16:05 Introduction
Speaker:Jonathan Fried (FMG)
16:05-16:50 Presentations
Moderator:Jonathan Fried (FMG)
Speakers:
Simon Evenett (FMG)
Sofia Boza
Valerie Picard (FFMG)
16:50-17:30 Discussions
Moderator:Jonathan Fried (FMG)
Annex 2: List of participants
I.FMG/FFMG
Jonathan Fired (FMG)
Simon Evenett (FMG)
Valerie Picard (FFMG)
Mercedes Araoz (FMG)
Hilda Al-Hinai (FMG)
Yonov Fred Agah (FMG)
Rajesh Aggarwal (FMG)
Ignacio Garcia Bercero (FMG)
Clemens Boonekamp (FMG)
Elizabeth Chelliah (FMG)
Xiaopeng Duan (FMG)
Henry Gao (FMG)
Ahmed Gamaleldin (FMG)
Bernard Hoekman (FMG)
Alejandro Jara (FMG)
Wenhua Ji (FMG)
Cecilia Malmstrom (FMG)
Janet Macharia (FMG)
Hamid Mamdouh (FMG)
Brad Mcdonald (FMG)
Fernando de Mateo (FMG)
Gabrielle Marceau (FMG)
Marco Molina (FMG)
Petros Mavroidis (FMG)
Niall Meagher (FMG)
Maria L. Pagan (FMG)
Rosine Plank (FMG)
Peter Ungphakorn (FMG)
Iain Sandford (FMG)
Sherry Stephenson (FMG)
Ben Shepherd (FMG)
Mohammad Saeed (FMG)
Andrea Spear (FMG)
John Weekes (FMG)
Alan Wolff (FMG)
Xiaopeng Yin (FMG)
Luz Maria de la Mora (FFMG)
II.Missions
Djibouti: Kadra Ahmed Hassan, Ambassador
Liechtenstein: Patrick Ritter, DPR
Denmark: Mads Thuesen Lunde, DPR
Barbados: Kay Sealy, DPR
Norway: Håvard Hugås, DPR
Hong Kong of China: Carol Tsang, Assistant Representative
Australia: Kristin Tilley, Minister and Deputy Head of Mission
China: Yuchi Ma, Counsellor
Denmark: Anders Christiansen, Counsellor
Guyana : Kerry Ann Karim, Counsellor
EU: Giulio Menato, Counsellor
EU: Davide Grespan, Legal Advisor
EU: Hene Leht-Blight, Trade Officer
EU: MP Nicora, Trade Policy Officer
Slovenia: Špela Kučan, Trade Policy Officer
Guyana: Colin Luckie, First Secretary
III. Governments
Jose Roberto Islas Telich, Mexico
Chancheyseth Sam, Cambodia
Abdul Fatat, Colombia
IV. International Organizations
Sophie van der Schrier, WTO
Hang Tran, WTO
Suja Rishikesh, WTO
Aik Hoe Lim, WTO
Adam Jakubik, IMF
V. Think tanks
William Reinsch, CSIS
VI. Universities
Sofia Boza, University of Chile
Stefan Tangermann, University of Göttingen
Carlos Primo Braga, Fundação Dom Cabral
Robert Wolfe, Queen’s University
Jorge Alberto Perez Millan, El Colegio de México
Gustavo Vega, El Colegio de México
Joey Zhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Peter Van den Bossche, WTI
Geraldo Vidigal, University of Amsterdam
VII. Others
Werner Zdouc, Former Director, Knowledge and Information Management, Academic Outreach Division, WTO
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