On 24 March, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized a webinar on “The Future of EU Trade Policy”. Bernard Hoekman, FMG member and Professor and Director, Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute moderated this session.
Cecilia Malmström, FMG member, Former EU Trade Commissioner; André Sapir, FMG member, Professor Emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles ; John Clarke, FMG member, Former Director for International Affairs in the European Commission shared their views on the EU trade dynamics and challenges, U.S.-EU trade relations and WTO reform etc.
Around 80 participants joined the session, including members of FMG, Ambassadors/DPRs of WTO members, and experts from renowned think tanks etc.
Recording of this session could be watched via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ORainbur0
Annex 1: Program
14:00-14:02 Opening Remarks
Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG)
14:02-14:05 Introduction
Speaker: Bernard Hoekman (FMG)
14:05-14:50 Presentations
Moderator: Bernard Hoekman(FMG)
14:05- 14:20 Speaker 1: Andre Sapir (FMG)
14:20-14:35 Speaker 2: John Clarke (FMG)
14:35-14:50 Speaker 3: Cecilia Malmström (FMG)
14:50- 15:30 Discussions
Moderator: Bernard Hoekman (FMG)
Annex 2: List of participants
1.FMG/FFMG
Bernard Hoekman (FMG)
Xiankun Lu (FMG)
John Clarke (FMG)
Cecilia Malmström (FMG)
Andre Sapir (FMG)
Rajesh Aggarwal (FMG)
Willy Alfaro (FMG)
Mercedes Araoz (FMG)
Ignacio Garcia Bercero (FMG)
Clemens Boonekamp (FMG)
Henry Gao (FMG)
Robert Koopman (FMG)
Fernando de Mateo (FMG)
Hamid Mamdouh (FMG)
Mario Matus (FMG)
Brad McDonald (FMG)
Jonathan Fried (FMG)
Alejandro Jara (FMG)
Wenhua Ji (FMG)
Patrick Low (FMG)
Siqi Li (FMG)
Rosine Plank (FMG)
Victor do Prado (FMG)
Cristian Rodriguez-Chiffelle (FMG)
Mohammad Saeed (FMG)
Sherry Stephenson (FMG)
Colette Van der Ven (FMG)
John Weekes (FMG)
Alan Wolff (FMG)
Sean Doherty (FMG)
2.WTO Missions
Canada: Nadia Theodore, Ambassador
Brazil: Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador
Germany: Carmen Heidecke, Ambassador
Russia: Nikolai Platonov, Ambassador
EU: Joao Aguiar Machado, Ambassador
France: Emmanuelle Ivanov-Durand, Ambassador
Norway: Petter Ølberg, Ambassdor
Pakistan: Ali Sarfraz Hussain, Ambassador
Sweden: Nina Tornberg, Ambassador
Switzerland: Erwin Bollinger, Ambassador
Sri Lanka: RGS Wijesekara, Ambassador
The Netherlands: Audrey Goosen, Ambassador
Gabon: Mireille Nzenzé, Ambassador
HK SAR: Winky So, Permanent Representative
Luxembourg: Christiane Daleiden, DPR
France: Alix Rancurel, DPR
Japan: Naoki Hikota, DPR
China: Yihong Li, DPR
Slovenia: Špela Kučan, DPR
Romania: Andrei Rusu, Minister Counsellor
Türkiye: Ipek Bozoglu, Commercial Counselor
Slovenia: Marusa Baus, Counsellor
EU: Martin Gajda, Counsellor
China: Yuchi Ma, Counsellor
EU: Hene Leht-Blight, Trade officer
Singapore: Peter Drage, Research Officer
Albania: Artan Fida, First Secretary
Egypt: Reem Eldahshan, First Secretary
New Zealand: Catherine Rissel, First Secretary
3.WTO Divisions
Tianchen Cao, WTO Economic Affairs Officer
4.International Organizations
Adam Jakubik, IMF
Natalia Deblue, WIPO
Don Junio, WEF
5.Think Tanks
Jeffrey Schott, PIIE
William Reinsch, CSIS
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, ECIPE
Alice Tipping, IISD
6.Universities
Carlos Primo Braga, Fundação Dom Cabral
Peter Van den Bossche, WTI
7.Others
Werner Zdouc, former Director, Knowledge and Information Management, Academic Outreach and WTO Chairs Programme
Carmel Cahill, Ex-Deputy Director for Trade and Agriculture of OECD
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