Former Member
WTO Appellate Body

Julio A. Lacarte served on the Appellate Body from 1995 to 2001. Born in Uruguay in 1918, he was a career diplomat who has been involved with the GATT/WTO trading system since its creation more than 50 years ago and has participated in all eight rounds of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the GATT.

Mr. Lacarte served as the Deputy Executive Secretary of the GATT in 1947-1948. He returned to the GATT as Uruguay's Permanent Representative in 1961-1966 and 1982-1992, during which periods he served as Chairman of the Council, the Contracting Parties, several dispute settlement panels, and the Uruguay Round Negotiating Groups on dispute settlement and institutional questions. Mr. Lacarte has also served as the Deputy Director of the International Trade and Balance-of-Payments Division of the United Nations and as the Director of Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He has also been Uruguay's Ambassador to several countries, including the European Communities, India, Japan, the United States and Thailand.

In his academic career, Mr. Lacarte has been Professor at the International Association of Comparative Law and at Strasbourg University. He has written several publications, including a recently published book covering all the subject-matter of the Uruguay Round from its inception to the Marrakesh Final Act.