Rosine M. PLANK-BRUMBACK

Rosine M. Plank-Brumback has over 35 years of experience in international trade and development policy, trade negotiations and dispute settlement within international organizations and U.S. government and diplomatic service. She is the interviewer in the IIEL’s oral history project of the world trading system, which was initiated by Prof. John Jackson to capture the insights and experiences of prominent individuals.

Ms. Plank is a Florida Supreme Court qualified arbitrator and a member of the International Panel of Arbitrators at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. She has been appointed to serve on the roster of arbitrators under free trade agreements by Latin American governments and the European Union. 

She held various positions at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States from 1998 to 2014, dealing with legal affairs, socioeconomic issues, the Summit of the Americas, and private sector dialogue. During the FTAA negotiations, Ms. Plank provided the lead technical support to the FTAA Negotiating Groups on Dispute Settlement, on Subsidies, Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties, and the Technical Committee on Institutional Issues, as well as to other FTAA political bodies, including Vice-Ministerial and Ministerial meetings.

Following and prior to her time in the GS/OAS, Ms. Plank has been a trade policy and legal consultant to ECLAC and other UN organizations, to a USAID-sponsored project on DR-CAFTA implementation in Nicaragua, to the Economic System for Latin America (SELA), and to the Chilean Association of Exporters.

Ms. Plank was a Counsellor in the Agriculture Division of the GATT Secretariat (1977-1985; 1988), serving as panel secretary to three GATT panels. She drafted several “think-pieces” on devising new disciplines for agricultural trade in the Uruguay Round.

She was posted as assistant agricultural attaché at the U.S. Mission to the European Communities (1974-1977) in Brussels. She began her career as an international economist with the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1971-1974).

Her most recent publications include:

Access to Medicines and Incentives for Innovation:  The Balance Struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Intellectual Property (Patent and Data Exclusivity) Protection for Pharmaceutical Products United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Studies and Perspective Series 16 (United Nations) November 2016.

GATT Panels in the 1980s: Setting the Stage for Reform in collection of papers on “A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO: The Development of the Rule of Law in the Multilateral Trading System” (Cambridge University Press) June 2015.

Ms. Plank holds a B.S.F.S. in international affairs from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was the Edward. D. Berger Scholar. She has U.S. and French nationalities.