On 4 September, 2025, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized the first session of FMG “WTO Disputes Decoding Series”. Gabrielle Marceau, FMG member and Honorary Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Geneva moderated this session.
At the meeting, Jayashree Watal, FMG member and former Senior Official, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the WTO; Mark Cohen, Technology Consultant of Asia Society Northern California & Asia Society Policy Institute, former First USPTO Representative to China; and Enrico Bonadio, Professor of Law at City St. George’s, University of London shared their insights on the topic, and answered the questions from the participants.
Around 100 participants joined the session, including members of FMG/FFMG, 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=U3n7FCQA65E.
Annex 1: Program
15:30-15:32 Welcoming:
Lu Xiankun, FMG CEO
15:32-15:35
Introduction of the panel:
Gabrielle Marceau, Moderator
15:35-15:45 Facts and procedural steps of the dispute:
Jayashree Watal
15:45-15:55 The Essence of the MPIA Report and its importance:
Mark Cohen
15:55-16:05 Other issues:
Enrico Bonadio
16:05- 16:25 Discussions among panelists:
Jayashree Watal, Mark Cohen and Enrico Bonadio
16:25 – 17:00 Q&A:
Gabrielle Marceau, Moderator
Annex 2: List of participants
I.FMG/FFMG
Xiankun Lu (FMG)
Gabrielle Marceau (FMG)
Jayashree Watal (FMG)
Mercedes Araoz (FMG)
Hilda AL-Hinai(FMG)
Yonov Fred Agah (FMG)
Clemens Boonekamp (FMG)
Jonathan Fried (FMG)
Henry Gao (FMG)
Johanna Hill (FMG)
Alejandro Jara(FMG)
Brad McDonald(FMG)
Cecilia Malmstrom (FMG)
Fernando de MATEO (FMG)
Hamid Mamdouh (FMG)
Janet Njambi Macharia (FMG)
Mario Matus(FMG)
Petros C. Mavroidis(FMG)
Rosine Plank (FMG)
Mohammad Saeed (FMG)
Sherry Stephenson (FMG)
Luz Maria de la Mora(FFMG)
II.WTO Missions
Russia: Nikolai Platonov, Ambassador
Argentina: Gustavo Lunazzi, Ambassador
Djibouti: Kadra Ahmed Hassan, Ambassador
Israel: Shir Slutzky, DPR
Thailand: Sirapat Vajraphai, DPR
France: Alix Rancurel, DPR
Japan: Atsushi Kono, DPR
Singapore: Terri Lim, Counsellor
Japan: Mai Yaguchi, Counsellor
Japan: Azusa Kikuma, Counsellor
Bhutan: Passang Dorji, Counsellor
Guatemala: Flor de maria, Counsellor
China: Yuchi Ma, Counsellor
Thailand: Koolanant Marchet, Counsellor
Dominican Republic: Ariel Gautreaux, Counsellor
UK: David Stranger-Jones, Counsellor
Japan: Azusa Kikuma, Counsellor
Swiss: Johannes Schwarzer, Counsellor
Türkiye: Ipek Bezirhan, Counsellor
Cambodia: Kong Sokheng, Counsellor
France: Ellen Verdure, Counsellor
Singapore: Terri Lim, Counsellor
Germany: Nina Schubert, Counsellor
Brazil: Cristina Alexandre. Counsellor
Russia: Tamara Posadkova, Attache
United States: Rachel Bae, Attache
Nicaragua: Freddy Ruiz, Commercial attache
Cambodia: Nen Chansamuth, Commercial attache
Japan: Tatsuya Haga, First Secretary
India: Gaurav Gupta, First Secretary
Belgium: Sofie Ravaglia, First Secretary
New Zealand: Catherine Rissel, First Secretary
Australia: Rori Moyo, First Secretary
Czech: Monika Ededy Müllerová, Third Secretary
United States: Gabriele Gagliani, Senior Legal Advisor
EU: Hene Leht-Blight, Trade officer
III. WTO Divisions
Iryna Polovets, Advisor to DDG, WTO
Wolf Meier-Ewert, Counsellor, WTO
Rohini Acharya, Counsellor, WTO
Maria Pereyra, Senior Counsellor, Legal Affairs Divison
Hang Tran, Counsellor, WTO
- International Organizations
Adam Jakubik, IMF
Yogesh Pai, WIPO
- Universities
Enrico Bonadio, Professor, George’s University
Adrian Macey, Professor, Victoria University
Masabumi Suzuki, Professor, Waseda University
Guohua Yang, Professor, Tsinghua University Law Schoo
Di Liu, Professor, Tongji University
Ichiro Araki, Professor, Yokohama National University
Aniruddha Rajput, Professor, National Law a university, Delhi
Marco Bronckers, Professor, Universiteit Leiden
- Others
Mark Cohen, Consultant of the Asia Society of Northern California and the Asia Society Policy Institute
Werner Zdouc, Former Director, Knowledge and Information Management, Academic Outreach and WTO Chairs Programme
Joost Pauwelyn, Co-director, CEEI
Anneli Andresson, policy officer, European Commission
William Reinsch, CSIS
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