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Gustavo A. Olivares Marcos
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
go2169@columbia.edu
Biography:
Dr. Gustavo A. Olivares M. received DES and PhD degrees in international relations with specialization in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI). He studied law in Lima, Geneva and London, has been a visiting research fellow at The Hague Academy of International Law, a visiting doctoral student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Law School (CLS) at Columbia University.
He is also professor of international trade and development at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations (GSD) and has lectured on multilateral trade diplomacy and trade negotiations at HEI's Diplomatic Studies Programme, University of Toronto at Scarborough, ESCP-EAP European School of Management in Paris, Geneva exchange programmes of the Australian National University (ANU) and Boston University, and in other university institutions in Europe and Latin America.
Dr. Olivares works as an independent consultant on trade policy and trade-related capacity-building and training, non-tariff barriers and other subjects with several European consulting firms, governments, IOs and NGOs. He served as the regional coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean with the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO--ITC's World Trade Net Programme, as a legal and training officer with the WTO's Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, as a consultant with UNCTAD and various governments in Latin America and East Asia, and as a country trade representative (delegate) to the WTO.
His teaching and research topics of interest in international economic law and relations range from trade policy and trade negotiations, market access (tariffs and non-tariff measures), the interface between the public and private sectors in trade policy formulation, regional integration, international cooperation for development, global economic governance, to the legal aspects of the international monetary and financial systems, including the legal aspects of the globalizing economic process and the workings of the international economic and financial institutions.
He has published, inter alia, "The Essence of Economic Globalization: the Legal Dimension" (Revue Belge de Droit International, 2003), "The Case for Giving Effectiveness to GATT/WTO Rules on Developing Countries and LDCs" (Journal of World Trade, 2001), and is currently working on a book on "State External Financial and Monetary Debts: the Case for Setting Up a Quasi Judicially-Based Multilateral Conflict Solving System."