4On December 6, 2024, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized a webinar on US Presidential Election and WTO Reform. Mercedes Araoz, FMG Board Member and former Vice-President and Prime Minister of Peru moderated this webinar.
At the meeting, Alan Wolff, distinguished visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former Deputy Director-General of the WTO; Ignacio Garcia Bercero, former Director responsible for the areas of Sustainable Development, Bilateral Trade Relations at the European Commission; Xinquan Tu, Dean and Professor of the China Institute for WTO Studies of University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) shared their insights on the recent US election, its impacts on the WTO reform and the next steps. Then, the panelists answered questions from participants.
Over 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9Pntlqz3w
Listen to this session via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5mNtvBY3lCiDXnXsBAJMQG
Annex 1:
Program
| 14:00-14:02 |
Opening Remarks Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG) |
| 14:02-14:05 |
Introduction Speaker: Mercedes Araoz (FMG) |
| 14:05-14:50 |
Presentations Moderator: Mercedes Araoz (FMG) |
| 14:05-14:20 | Speaker 1: Alan Wolff (FMG) |
| 14:20- 14:35 | Speaker 2: Ignacio Garcia Bercero (FMG) |
| 14:35-14:50 | Speaker 3: Xinquan Tu (FMG) |
| 14:50- 15:30 |
Discussions Moderator: Mercedes Araoz (FMG) |
Annex 2: List of confirmed participants
1）FMG
Mercedes Araoz
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Wendy Culter
Jonathan Fried
Henry Gao
Stuart Harbinson
Alejandro Jara
Wenhua Ji
Robert Koopman
Xiankun Lu
Janet Macharia
Cecilia Malmström
Hamid Mamdouh
Mario Matus
Petros C. Mavroidis
Brad McDonald
Mohammad Saeed
Sherry Stephenson
Hector R Torres
Xinquan Tu
Jayashree Watal
John Weekes
Alan Wolff
2）WTO Missions
Barbados: Matthew Wilson, Ambassador
Latvia: Renārs Danelsons, Ambassador
New Zealand: Clare Kelly, Ambassador
Norway: Petter Ølberg, Ambassador
Russia: Nikolai Platonov, Ambassador
Slovak Republic: Judita Brzobohata, Ambassador
Thailand: Pimchanok Pitfield, Ambassador
Australia: Jeremy Green, DPR
3）Think Tanks
William Reinsch, CSIS Jeff Schott, PIIE
4）International Organzations
Iasson Chryssikos, World Bank
Natalia Deblue, WIPO
Adam Jakubik, IMF
Valerie Picard, ICC
Pierre Sauve, World Bank
5） Universities
Andre Sapir, Columbia University Robert Wolfe, Queen’s University
6）Others
Werner Zdouc, former WTO Director
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