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Speaker Biographies

Georges Abi-Saab
Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Grant Aldonas
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP... more

Jose Alvarez
Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law & Diplomacy, Columbia Law School... more

Lisa Anderson
Dean and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University... more

Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr.
Senior Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade... more

James Bacchus
Chairman, Global Trade Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig P.A.; Former Member and Chairman, WTO Appellate Body... more

Kyle Bagwell
Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory and Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University... more

Luiz O. Baptista
Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

George Bermann
Jean Monnet Professor of European Law & Gellhorn Professor of Law, Columbia Law School... more

Jagdish Bhagwati
University Professor, Columbia University... more

Paul Blustein
Staff Writer, Washington Post... more

Lee C. Bollinger
President, Columbia University... more

Jane Bradley
Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law... more

Charles W. Calomiris
Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School... more

Steve Charnovitz
Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School... more

William Davey
Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law... more

Florentino Feliciano
Senior Associate Justice (Ret.), Supreme Court of the Philippines; Former Member, WTO Appellate Body; Senior Council, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan... more

Albert Fishlow
Professor of International and Public Affairs; Director, Institute of Latin American Studies; Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University... more

Stuart Harbinson
Special Adviser, Office of the Director General, WTO... more

Carla A. Hills
Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company International Consultants; Former U.S. Trade Representative... more

Gary Horlick
Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP... more

Robert Howse
Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law, The University of Michigan Law School... more

Valerie Hughes
Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP; Former Director, WTO Appellate Body Secretariat... more

John Jackson
University Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center... more

Merit E. Janow
Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University; Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Hyun-Chong Kim
Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea... more

Seiichi Kondo
Ambassador, International Trade and Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan... more

Martti Koskenniemi
Professor, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki... more

Pieter Kuijper
Director - Principle Legal Advisor, European Commission... more

Julio A. Lacarte
Former Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Christine Lagarde
Minister of Foreign Trade, France... more

Robert Lawrence
Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University... more

Mitsuo Matsushita
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; Former Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Petros Mavroidis
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia Law School... more

Donald McRae
Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law, University of Ottawa... more

Amina Mohamed
Chair, WTO General Council; Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya to the WTO... more

Sharyn O'Halloran
George Blumenthal Professor and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University... more

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria... more

David Palmeter
Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP... more

Arvind Panagariya
Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University... more

Mari Pangestu
Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia... more

Hugh Patrick
Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business; R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus, Columbia Business School... more

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
Professor of International and European Law, European University Institute... more

Mary Robinson
Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Columbia University; Executive Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former President, Ireland... more

Keith Rockwell
Director, Information and Media Relations, WTO... more

Frieder Roessler
Executive Director, Advisory Centre on WTO Law... more

Giorgio Sacerdoti
Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan... more

David M. Schizer
Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School... more

Susan Schwab
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative... more

Joseph Stiglitz
University Professor; Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University... more

Andrew Stoler
Executive Director, Institute for International Business, Economics & Law, University of Adelaide; Former Deputy Director-General, WTO... more

Sun Zhenyu
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the WTO... more

Peter Sutherland
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman, BP p.l.c.; former Director General, GATT & WTO... more

Yasuhei Taniguchi
Member, WTO Appellate Body... more

Patricia Wald
Judge (Ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals... more

John M. Weekes
Senior Policy Advisor, Sidley Austin LLP; Former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO... more

Bruce Wilson
Director, WTO Legal Affairs Division... more

Alan Wolff
Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP... more

Martin Wolf
Associate Editor, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times... more

Rufus Yerxa
Deputy Director-General, WTO... more

Clayton Yeutter
Of Counsel, Hogan & Hartson LLP; Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Former U.S. Trade Representative... more

Werner Zdouc
Director, Appellate Body Secretariat... more

Ernesto Zedillo
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics, Yale University; Former President, Mexico... more


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