FIVE FREEDOMS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow of ECIPE
Alan Oxley is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE, the Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre at Monash University, and the Managing Director of ITS Global, a strategic trade, environment and communication consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia.
Before 1989 Alan Oxley was a career diplomat, representing Australia in Singapore, at the United Nations in New York and in Geneva. He was Australian Ambassador to the General Agreement in Tariffs and Trade (GATT) between 1985 and 1989 where he was the first Australian to serve as GATT Chairman and played a leading role in establishing the Cairns Group of agricultural exporters. He was a panellist on the dispute panel for the landmark trade and environment tuna dolphin case.
Alan established his current consultancy in 1989. It provides technical advice to governments and business on trade and trade-related issues. It has worked in most East Asian developing economies, as well as Africa on WTO issues, including accession, and for major corporations. In Australia, ITS Global has managed a number of aid programs for the Australian Government and advised business on policy issues in FTAs with the United States and China.
Alan has worked on globalisation questions issues and trade and environment and is specialist on international environmental issues such as climate change, GMOs and genetic resources.
Alan is a regular commentator in international media, particularly in Asia Pacific. He hosts of the Asia Pacific page of TCSDaily, a Washington pro-market public policy website and is Chairman of World Growth, a free market NGO based in Washington DC.
Since 1996 he has been the Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre at Monash University and has designed and delivered graduate courses in international trade. He has published papers on a wide variety of international environmental and trade issues.
Alan Oxley graduated from Monash University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in Politics and Asian History.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Partner, Trade & Customs Services, Asia Pacific, KPMG
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- Senior Fellow
- Group of German Economist
- Senior Fellow of ECIPE
Andreas Freytag is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also Director of Tutwa Germany (www.tutwaconsulting.com), a Senior Research Fellow at ECIPE, Brussels, and a Senior Research Associate at SAIIA, Johannesburg; he is associated to the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto.
Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. Prior to his appointment in Jena, he worked at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, the University of Cologne, Cambridge University (as Visiting Scholar), and the Eesti Pank, Tallinn, Estonia. He has been consultant for the EU-Commission, the OECD, the IMF and various public and private clients.
Freytag was a member of the executive board of the European Public Choice Society from 2006 to 2009 and SAIIA's Bradlow Fellow 2008. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals on economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination. He contributes to blogs and has a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine.
Andreas Freytag and Gernot Pehnelt about the financial crisis and debt relief in...
ECIPE scholars Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag discuss the role of business in the Doha...
Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag about the G-8 summit and its "leitmotif" in the Frankfurter Allgemein...
Matthias Bauer and Andreas Freytag shed light on the prospects for Africa's grand free trade area in World Commerce...
Andreas Freytag and a group of German economist in the Jena Alliance called in FAZ for a re-orientation of European economic...
Andreas Freytag and Razeen Sally on the trade and the world economy in the Frankfurter Allgemeine...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Executive Director, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide, Australia Former Deputy Director - General of WTO ( 1999 - 2002 )
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- European Commissioner and Greek Minister Who Now Heads Network DIKTYO, Richard Von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy
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- Policy Researcher in Trade and Digital Policy at ECIPE
Anna Guildea is a Policy Researcher in Trade and Digital Policy at ECIPE. She has recently completed her MSc in International Political Economy as a SPIRE Scholar at University College Dublin. She holds a Bachelor's degree with honors in International Development Studies and Sociology from Maynooth University - where she was awarded an Entrance Scholarship and an academic achievement award for her work. She was also granted a scholarship by the Irish Universities Association to spend a summer semester studying in Beijing.
Anna is currently a Yenching Scholar at Peking University in Beijing where she is completing a second master's degree in China Studies, with a specialisation in Politics and International Relations.
Anna has previous experience working in the Adapt Centre, a research centre based in Trinity College Dublin, and as an intern at the Taihe Institute, a policy think-tank based in Beijing.
Anna Guildea discusses the impact of Biden's proposed global minimum corporate tax rate on Ireland's FDI-dependent...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at NTU
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor of Economics
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- Senior Fellow
- Principal of Developing Trade Consultants
Ben Shepherd, the Principal of Developing Trade Consultants, is a trade economist and international development consultant. He has worked on a wide range of trade and development issues with organisations such as the World Bank, the OECD, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. He specialises in providing policy-relevant research, as well as capacity-building seminars for researchers working in trade and development. He has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and a similar number of published chapters, in addition to five books.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Queen Mary College, University of London
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Vice - President, Cato Institute
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Advisor at Flint Global in London, a Senior Fellow at Renmin University, Beijing and the Hudson Institute in Washington
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- Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Castilla - La Mancha
Carmen Díaz Mora is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Her fields of research are international trade, participation in global value chains and international servicification of manufacturing. Her works have been published in Economic Analysis and Policy, Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Regional Studies, Review of World Economics, The World Economy, among others. She is co-editor-in-chief of Applied Economic Analysis, a JCR-indexed journal. She is also member of the Reflection Committee on Internationalization of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club; member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Foreign Trade of Castilla-La Mancha; and co-director of the Master in International Business at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
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- President, the Policy Workshop
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Director, CSL - Behring, Inc
Chulsu Kim - Chairman, Institute for Trade and Investment, Seoul; former Deputy Director General of the WTO
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman, Institute for Trade and Investment, Seoul Former Deputy Director General of the WTO
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- Chief Executive Officer of General Electric France and Vice President of GE International
Beatrice Weder di Mauro - Professor of Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and member of the Board of Directors for UBS Group, Roche Holding, and Robert Bosch
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Director, American Enterprise Institute
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Partner, McDemott, Will & Emery
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at ECIPE
Daniel Capparelli is a Research Associate at ECIPE. His research interests include: how the financial crisis has affected EU trade policy in financial services; how internal market regulations affect trade flows and negotiations; competition; and trade in services. He is also interested in the trade relations between South America (notably Brazil) and the European Union. Daniel has advised the European Parliament on trade matters and, more specifically, on the ratification of the EU-South-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
Daniel is currently finalizing his Ph.D. in the political economy of financial services trade liberalization at the London School of Economics (LSE), from where he has previously obtained a Master's degree in International Political Economy. He also studied at the University of Toulouse 1 (Toulouse School of Economics), where he received a Bachelor degree in International Economics, Money and Finance, and at the University of British Columbia. He speaks fluent English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and intermediate Italian.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow
- Professor, Westminster Business School
- Visiting Professor at the Westminster Business School
David Henderson is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a Visiting Professor at the Westminster Business School and the London School of Economics. He was formerly (1984-92) Head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (the OECD) in Paris. Before this, he had worked as an academic economist in Britain, first in Oxford (Fellow of Lincoln College) and later (1975-83) in University College London (Professor of Economics); as a national civil servant (first as an Economic Adviser in Her Majesty's Treasury, and later as Chief Economist in the UK Ministry of Aviation); as an international civil servant (with the World Bank (1969-75), where he was at one stage Director of the Economics Department); and as a consultant (in Greece, Malaysia, and the World Bank).
In 1985 David Henderson gave the BBC Reith Lectures, which were published in book form under the title of Innocence and Design: The Influence of Economic Ideas on Policy (Blackwell, 1986). Since leaving the OECD he has been an independent author and consultant, and has acted as Visiting Fellow or Professor at the OECD Development Centre (Paris), the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), Monash University (Melbourne), the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris), the University of Melbourne, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the Melbourne Business School, and the Institute of Economic Affairs (London). He is an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and in 1992 he was made Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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- Director of the UK Trade
- Director of the UK Trade Policy Project
David Henig is Director of the UK Trade Policy Project. A leading authority on the development of UK Trade Policy post Brexit, he places this in the context of developments in EU and global trade policy on which he also researches and writes.
David joined ECIPE in 2018 having worked on trade and investment issues for the UK Government for a number of years, in particular engaging extensively on US-EU talks around the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, on global issues around the US and China, and latterly helping to establish a UK trade policy capability after the 2016 Brexit referendum. He also writes a regular column for the online trade policy professionals news service Borderlex, advises a Parliamentary committee and the UK Trade and Business Commission, and appears regularly in media and at events to discuss latest developments. During the most intense phases of Brexit, he established with a number of other UK specialists a network of expertise under the UK Trade Forum banner.
Prior to working in Government, David worked in consulting and business development, having graduated from Oxford University. Collectively all of this experience is brought together in the project examining and evaluating the UK's performance in preparing for and delivering effective trade policy.
David Henig comments on AFP News concerning UK's failed free trade talks with...
David Henig comments for CNN on how the stalled talks between the UK and Canada represent a "blow" to the UK's ambitions to strike better...
David Henig writes for Borderlex about the potential impact of the outcome of the US presidential election on...
David Henig analyses the needs of the UK for its agricultural trade policy post-Brexit in his column for...
David Henig writes for Borderlex on how international trade will be a focus in many of the upcoming 2024 elections but it is time to forge a new...
David Henig writes for Borderlex about why it might be good to remind ourselves that international agreements do get done and that many frictions...
David Henig writes for the Centre for Cross Border Studies on the ambiguity around Northern Ireland's future trade...
David Henig and Shanker Singham discuss the latter's proposals for Brexit on Channel 4...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, UCLA
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Dartmouth College
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- Director
- German Economist and Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy
Matthias Bauer is a German economist and Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). He works on EU and global trade policy with a focus on digital and technology policymaking.
Matthias Bauer is the author of several studies, economic impact assessments and policy briefs in the fields of international trade, digital markets, the regulation of data, innovation, and intellectual property rights. He is regularly consulted by private and public sector organisations on a broad range of policy issues ranging from impact analysis to strategic advice.
Bauer grew up in Eastern Germany. He is an alumni of the US international visitor leadership program (IVLP). He studied business administration at the University of Hull, UK, and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree after joining the Bundesbank graduate programme on the "Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Financial Stability".
Before joining ECIPE, Matthias Bauer was the Coordinator of International Political Economy at the international cooperation division of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin. He previously held positions at DekaBank, UBS, Mercedes-Benz China, and worked as a start-up and business development consultant. Matthias is a member of Tutwa Europe's economic policy expert network. He is also the co-founder of the German-based Institute for Digital Education (IfODiB).
Matthias Bauer attending an EP hearing on Strategic Autonomy and the resilience of pharmaceutical value chains in the...
Matthias Bauer writes for Encompass on how defensive trade and investment policies risk adversely impacting Member States'...
Matthias Bauer arguing that achieving EU Strategic Autonomy critically relies on achieving a much more integrated continental market and policies...
Matthias Bauer argues that governments will continue to compete for investments and business activity by offering businesses subsidies and...
In a joint study with the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Matthias Bauer analyses the consequences of the Digital Markets...
Matthias Bauer talks about the concept of economic security and its implication for the podcast Trade Knowledge...
Matthias Bauer talks about myths and misconceptions in the debate about taxes on digital...
Matthias Bauer discusses the Swedish postal authority's decision to ban Huawei and ZTE from Swedish telecoms markets because of perceived...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Ambassador of the EU ( Retired )
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- Senior Fellow
- Member and Senior Economist With the School of Environmental
Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an affiliate faculty member and senior economist with the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences, University of Washington-Seattle. Furthermore, he co-founded Infinite Sum Modelling LLC, with offices in Canada, USA, India, China and Hong Kong, and presence worldwide. Before moving to Seattle, he served Purdue University's Center for Global Trade Analysis for almost a decade and prior to that he was a Fellow at ICRIER (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations), New Delhi, India. His broad expertise lies in economic analysis for business strategy and public policy, employing a variety of quantitative models. Recently, apart from his 18+ years of applied economic research experience in trade, energy/environment and development issues, he has been working on several other issues such as business economics of new technologies, advising several start-ups in these sectors.
Several of his models capture global supply chain economics as well as linkages among countries and industries from a holistic, dynamic perspective. He is widely known for his pivotal role in developing GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) based models and datasets used by thousands of researchers across the world. These models employ theory-consistent, data-founded and realistic approaches, involving a combination of optimization, applied mathematics, simulation and statistical regressions, to make futuristic predictions and forecasts. He has published five books, over 100 research papers in reputed journals, books and other outlets. Apart from top scholarly journals including Nature and American Economic Review, for over 4600 times, his research has been cited in popular magazines such as The Economist and several news outlets. He has also contributed several OpEds to magazines, newspapers and websites across the world.
He has been an independent consultant with several organizations including the McKinsey, IMF, World Bank, FAO, UN, EU, ITC, ADB, KPMG, LSE, the Commonwealth of Nations, PWC, Harvard University, and the governments of India, the United States, Finland, Turkey and others as well as several startups and non-profit organizations. He has presented his work in invited seminars in several places including Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, etc., in 30 countries across the world. He has a PhD in Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and BTech from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Dyuti Pandya is a Junior Analyst at ECIPE. Her research interests include international economic laws, competition and trade in services, WTO & Globalisation, digital economy and EU trade agreements. She is also interested in trade relations between China, East Asia and Europe. Prior to joining ECIPE, Dyuti was a 2023 summer intern at the CATO institute's Herbert Stiefel Centre for Trade Policy Studies where she focused on domestic and international trade policy and its protectionism trends. She has previously also worked with Dr. Amrita Bahri, Dr. Enrico Bonadio, Professor Julien Chaisse, and Professor Rafael Leal Arcus on various projects surrounding interdisciplines between trade policy, intellectual property rights and law.
She holds a Master's in International Trade Law from the School of Maritime Law, Policy and Administration, Gujarat Maritime University (India, 2022). She completed her Bachelor's in law from the University of Mumbai (India, 2021).
In her spare time, she runs the Bastiat Scroll Project to develop and further the libertarian dialogue in South Asia.
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- Member of the European Commission 's Advisory
- Member of the European Commission 's Advisory Group
Edward Bowles is a Member of the European Commission's Advisory Group on TTIP, and writes this in a personal capacity. For those of you familiar with Michael Punke's book ‘The Revenant' (or screen portrayal of the same), the central character, played by Leonardo di Caprio, is mauled terribly by a grizzly bear, betrayed by his appointed protector and left for dead deep in woodland in frozen conditions. Against all the odds, he not only survives,...
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- Partner, Vermulst, Verhaeghe & Graafsma Advocaten
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow at ECIPE
Elena Bryan is a Senior Fellow at ECIPE and Managing Director at Pilot Rock Global Strategies LLC, a trade, investment and regulatory consultancy.
Elena recently returned to the Washington, DC, area after nearly six years in Brussels. She was Senior Trade Representative at the U.S. Mission to the EU where she was USTR's senior official in the EU, including on T-TIP. In more than 20 years at USTR, she oversaw bilateral trade relations in Southeast Asia and India, negotiated market access, rules of origin and development chapters in several U.S. trade agreements and represented the U.S. at the WTO. Early in her career, she served a tour at USTR's Geneva office where she focused on tariff negotiations. Before moving to Brussels in 2011, she led U.S. efforts on the intersection between trade and development in the international trading system, including development aspects of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Vice President, SEB
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- Chief Economist at ECIPE, Associate
- Research on Global Data Models in the Financial.
Erik van der Marel has a VoxEU column on the role of adequacy for digital...
Erik van der Marel is a Chief Economist at ECIPE, Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Consultant Economist at the World Bank. His areas of expertise are in digital trade, services trade, cross-border data flows, and their associated digital services trade policy.
Prior to his appointment at ECIPE, Erik was a full-time lecturing at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught international trade at post-graduate level. In the past, Erik also gained various professional experience as a consultant at the, OECD, APEC, ADBI, and the World Bank Trade Research Department. Erik received his PhD in economics from Sciences-Po Paris and did his post-doctorate at the LSE, too.
Erik has published peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, working papers and reports, and made contributions to ECIPE, the World Bank, and ADBI on digital trade and services, domestic regulations in digital services trade and data flows. He has also provided various capacity building courses for policy makers at National Ministries and taught at the European University Institute (EUI) and World Trade Institute (WTI).
Erik van der Marel writes about productive services with the help of internet technologies on the ADBI's...
In a joint Kearney-ECIPE study, Dr Matthias Bauer and Dr Erik van der Marel analyse the economic impacts of restrictions on the free flow of data...
Erik van der Marel presents at the UNCTAD e-Commerce week in a panel together with GIZ and the World...
Erik van der Marel presents on data and new globalisation, including the regulatory options, for IIFT Economics...
Erik van der Marel presents on adequacy and digital services trade at the World Trade...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, National Economic Research Institute, China
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
Frank Lavin was the US Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade between 2005 and 2007, and the US Ambassador to Singapore between 2001 and 2005. He is now the Founding CEO of Export Now.
Frank Lavin writes in Forbes about the future of the WTO. The essay is drawn from his an Oscar Guinea ECIPE paper "Learning to Love Trade Again"...
Fredrik Erixon and Frank Lavin argue in the Wall Street Journal that trade agreement help the US to reduce its trade...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Partner, Wilmer Hale
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
Guy de Jonquières is a Senior Fellow at ECIPE. His current interests and research focus particularly on international economic policy and Asias political economy. He was previously a journalist with The Financial Times, where he spent much of his career working, living and travelling extensively in North America, Europe and Asia. He served in Paris, Washington, New York, Saigon, Brussels and Hong Kong as well as specialist correspondent covering international IT industries. He has also been The Financial Times world trade editor and international business editor.
Guy de Jonquières has extensive radio and television broadcasting experience, principally in the US and in Europe. He is a frequent guest speaker and chairman at conferences. He has participated in events organised by the United Nations, the WTO, the OECD, the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Asian Development Bank, the London School of Economics and the World Economic Forum, as well as by research institutes, business schools and multinational corporations.
In 2001, Guy de Jonquières received the BP/European University Institute prize for essay on transatlantic economic relations, and in 2007 he was awarded as the opinion writer of the year by the Society of Publishers in Asia.
An essay by Guy de Jonquières about the rules-based international order and the rise of authoritarian...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Director - General, IFPMA President Pharmaceutical Security Institute ( PSI )
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President, Cordell Hull Institute
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Immediate past President of Business Council of Australia CEO of First Charnock
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- Professor of International Business and Strategy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chairman - Chairman of Investor and Member of the Board of Directors of Several Companies, E.G. ABB and Ericsson
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow at ECIPE
His areas of specialisation are international trade in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa regions. He is also especially interested in how SMEs can harness the power of international trade agreements.
Jan studied law at the University of Malta and went on to specialise in EU and international trade law at the University of Sussex and entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge. He was policy advisor and parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament from 2007 till 2013 and from 2013 till the end of July 2019 he was the Trade Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the EU, where he also led the trade team in Brussels during Malta's Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Since August 2019 Jan has been working on various projects relating to EU and international trade issues and is also engaged in working with businesses to help them find ways to grow.
Jan A. Micallef leads a Malta Chamber of Commerce webinar on how businesses can make the best use of trade...
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- Member of the Groupe D'Economie Mondiale
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, IMD / Evian Group
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, University of Sussex
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman, LOTIS Committee, TheCityUK
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, University of Cologne
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Lecturer
- Research Associate
Lior Herman is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on international political economy and the intersection of politics, economics and philosophy. Dr. Herman's main research areas include international trade and trade in services, energy geopolitics, European Union studies (with an emphasis on the Single Market and external relations), international governance and the integration and disintegration of markets and polities.
Dr. Herman has two undergraduate degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), and in International Relations. He has an MSc. degree and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, specializing in European and international political economy. Dr. Herman has published numerous articles in academic and scientific refereed journals on a wide range of topics including international trade, trade in services, EU Mediterranean relations, regional cooperation, and international money laundering.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI), a Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and a member of the academic board of the Munich European Forum, as well as a referee for various academic journals. Dr. Herman has been a Visiting Professor at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and a Visiting Lecturer at Renmin University of China in Beijing, the Royal Scientific Society in Amman, and Rouen Business School in Paris. He has also served as a World Trade Organization regional expert in the field of services. Prior to that, he served as a senior official at the Israeli Ministry of Finance where he held the positions of Director for international organizations and the EU, as well as Head of Department of Insurance Agents and Agencies. He has served as the Secretary of Inter-ministerial Committee for the OECD as well as a non-resident member of Israel's delegation to the WTO.
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at ECIPE
Martina F. Ferracane is a Research Associate at ECIPE. Her work focuses on digital trade and cross-border data flows. She is particularly interested in technological advancements such as Internet of Things and 3D printing, including in the context of long-term societal and economic development. Previously, she worked at the European Commission (DG DEVCO) and at UN-ESCAP in Bangkok, where she focused on trade policy and protectionism trends.
Martina is also actively engaged in social entrepreneurship. She is the founder and president of Fab Lab Western Sicily, a non-profit organisation which is bringing digital fabrication to Sicilian schools. In addition, she is managing the Brussels Entrepreneurship and Innovation meetup group and she recently spent few months in a Fab Lab in Brazil to learn digital fabrication techniques. Martina has also co-founded a start-up in the area of 3D printing and dentistry.
Since May 2016, Martina is a PhD student in Law and Economics at Hamburg University, where she is specialising in the area of cross-border flow of data. She holds a Master's degree with honours in Economic Internationalisation, Integration and International Trade from University of Valencia in Spain - where she was also awarded a prize for academic excellence - and gained her Bachelor's degree with honours in Economics and Institutions of International and European Integration from ‘La Sapienza' University of Rome. She also attended a semester of courses in international economics and monetary policy at Stockholm University.
Erik van der Marel and Martina Ferracane published their work on data restrictions and digital trade in the Review of World...
Martina Ferracane and Erik van der Marel explore the different global models on personal data and their links to digital services...
Erik van der Marel and Martina Ferracane publish on online platform trade restrictiveness in The World...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- General Manager
- Head of Communications
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- Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem"
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- Chairman of the Steering Committee
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman, Professor, Sciences Po
- Director of the Project, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Sciences Po Paris
- Professor GEM, Sciences Po ( Chairman )
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Oxford University
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow
- ECIPE Fellow
- Programme Director, South African Institute of International Affairs
- Senior Fellow at ECIPE
Peter Draper is Senior Fellow at ECIPE and Director of Tutwa Consulting, a consultancy specialising in policy and regulatory analysis with a focus on trade and investment policies in Southern African and emerging markets. He occupies a number of positions in the think tank space, including, domestically: Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Diplomacy programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs; Lecturer at Wits Business School where he has won two teaching awards; and Senior Consultant to the India, Brazil, and South Africa think tank consortium at the Centre for Development and Enterprise. His current international affiliations include: board member of the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis; member and vice-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Global Trade and FDI. He holds a Master of Commerce degree from the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal).
Formerly he worked for South Africa's national department of trade and industry, in various positions: head of the Asia 2 desk; leading the establishment of bilateral trade negotiations between Mercosur and SACU; and Head of Economic Analysis and Research in the Trade Policy Division where he was responsible for advising the Department on its FTA and broader trade negotiations strategy. Subsequently he established the Development Through Trade unit at the South African Institute of International Affairs, where he worked extensively on regional economic integration in Southern and Eastern Africa, SACU's various free trade agreement negotiations particularly with the European Union and the United States, and the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. He has also conducted a number of consultancies on various aspects of free trade negotiations, trade and investment policy, including for the following organizations: The SACU Secretariat; the SADC Secretariat; the World Bank; the WTO; the OECD; the UK's Department of International Development; the Australian Aid Agency; USAID; Business Unity South Africa; Business Leadership South Africa; and most recently for the ACP Secretariat where he reviewed strategic implications of the mega-regional negotiations being conducted between the US and select partners in Asia (TPP) and the US and EU (TTIP).
Peter Draper and Razeen Sally comment on international trade issues for South Africa's Classic...
ECIPE Fellow Peter Draper writes in Business Day about China and taking advantage of the opportunities the Chinese manufacturing industry...
Peter Draper takes stock in Business Day of the China's currency peg and China-South Africa economic...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow
- Member of the Swedish Society for International Affairs
- Senior Fellow of ECIPE
Peter Kleen is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a trade policy consultant. He was formerly (1992-2004) Director General of the National Board of Trade in Sweden. The Board is a governmental agency in Sweden with the main task of providing the Swedish government with trade policy analyses, strategic proposals and recommendations. Before this, he worked as Senior Trade Policy Adviser in the Swedish Ministry for For-eign Affairs (1991-1992) and as Project Manager for the Uruguay Round in the Federation of Swedish Industries (1989-1991)
Mr. Kleen has worked over 30 years in public service. During that time he served as an adviser and trade policy expert in Swedish official dele-gations to meetings in OECD, GATT, WTO and UNCTAD. He has also publicized widely on policy issues relating to i.a. multilateral trade, glob-alization and climate.
Mr. Kleen is a member of the Swedish Society for International Affairs and of the roster of the WTO indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
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- Director
- Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy
Philipp Lamprecht is Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) in charge of overseeing fundraising activities, in addition to his trade economist research work.
Before joining ECIPE, he worked as an External Consultant to the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, specifically on a project analysing trade in services. He has also worked as a Senior Consultant of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on a variety of projects for the European Commission, including several Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments of EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations (DG Trade), and a EuropeAid project focusing on capacity building in the Caribbean region for the implementation of the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement. He has gained work experience at the European Commission's DG Trade, working with trade negotiators on EU-Japan economic and trade relations. He is also a member of Tutwa Europe's economic policy expert network.
He holds a PhD from the LSE with a specialization on International Political Economy. The PhD thesis, which he finished in 2014, lays a focus on economic diplomacy and bargaining power in international and multilateral trade negotiations. He holds a double master's degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and from the University of St. Gallen. He also studied Japanese Studies at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
The paper "The Economic Impacts of the Proposed EUCS Exclusionary Requirements" by Matthias Bauer and Philipp Lamprecht is referenced in an article...
Philipp Lamprecht and Oscar Guinea ECIPE blog post about the EU digital economy reposted by Greek newspaper,...
Oscar Guinea and Philipp Lamprecht published a blog post about EU digital competitiveness and the role for the D9+ countries for the Real Instituto...
Fredrik Erixon and Philipp Lamprecht comment on the questions of what are the key areas for digital change in the near future and how can Europe make...
Erik van der Marel and Philipp Lamprecht discuss how countries can reach and extend their digital services trade potential in a Webinar organised by...
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- Senior Fellow
- Director of External Programs and Academic Partners
Pierre Sauvé is the Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships and a faculty member at the Wold Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, where his research interests focus on trade in services, the regulation of investment and the study of comparative regionalism. He holds visiting lectureship positions at the University of Barcelona's law faculty, whose LLM program in international economic law and policy (IELPO) he advises as well as at the College of Europe. He is a Fellow of the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade and the Latin American Journal of International Economic Law and serves on the Advisory Board of the WTO Academic Chairs program.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Australian National University
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- Director
- Co - Wrote a New World Economic Forum Report on Trade and.
- Commissioner at the Legatum Institute Special Trade
- Director of ECIPE
Razeen Sally is Director of ECIPE, which he co-founded in 2006. He is also Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, the main economic think tank in his native Sri Lanka. He was on the faculty of the London School of Economics for eighteen years, where he also received his PhD. He has held adjunct teaching, research and advisory positions at universities and think tanks in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia. He is on the Global Agenda Council for Competitiveness of the World Economic Forum, and was awarded the Hayek Medal by the Hayek Society in Germany in 2011. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Razeen Sally's research and teaching focuses on global trade policy and Asia in the world economy. He has written on the WTO, FTAs, and on different aspects of trade policy in Asia. He has also written on the history of economic ideas, especially the theory of commercial policy.
China's trade policy has shifted in the near-decade since it joined the WTO, argues Razeen Sally in a new study. It behaves more like a very large, complex economy and less like a small-to-medium-sized open economy. It inclines less to unilateral liberalisation and more to hard-bargaining reciprocity. China's short-term challenge is to contain protection at home, concludes Sally. Beyond that, China's challenge is to stimulate...
Razeen Sally is now a commissioner at the Legatum Institute Special Trade...
Razeen Sally on Asia's post-crisis acceleration and what it means for the West in European...
Razeen Sally gives keynote address on Malaysia, globalisation and economic freedom at IDEAS Malaysia in Kuala...
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Researcher at ECIPE
Renata Zilli is a Researcher at ECIPE. She is a graduate of the master's degree in International Economics and Latin American Studies of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. She also holds a master's degree in International Relations and International Trade and Commerce Law from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In parallel, she has undertaken additional professional development studies in world-renowned universities such as the University of Warwick, Complutense University, and El Colegio de México.
In academia, Renata served as the director of the undergraduate program in International Relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus Puebla (2017-2018), her Alma Mater. At the time of her appointment, and she became one of the youngest female professionals assigned to this position. She has been involved in research projects on issues related to economic globalisation and international affairs in different public, private and non-profit entities, such as the United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI) at the British Consulate in Sydney, Australia, and the office for the implementation of the USMCA at the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C., the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid, and the Wilson Center in Washington D.C.
As a social entrepreneur, she co-founded TradeTankMx, the first Mexican think tank by young professionals oriented to the study of international trade. Renata's opinions have appeared in different media outlets such as Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, El Universal, and El Economista.
Renata Zilli comments on the meeting between Biden and Mexican president AMLO at the White...
Renata Zilli writes for El Universal Mexico on the arguable efficacy of economic sanctions to...
Renata Zilli writes an opinion for El Universal on the diplomatic opportunity that the absence of the Mexican president to the summit of the...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Harvard University
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution Vice President for Research and Policy, the Kauffman Foundation
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor, Wellesley College / Harvard University
Robin Baker is an Economist at ECIPE. His research interests are focused on digital and services trade policy, as well as measuring the effects of trade agreements and other interventions. He is adept at working with a range of research methods, from surveys and interviews to CGE modelling, gravity equations, and other econometric techniques.
He has deployed these skills to analyse preferential utilisation rates, to quantify the impact of non-tariff measures, and to estimate the benefits of digital trade facilitation. He has worked on consultancy projects for a range of clients, including the European Parliament, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Department for International Trade.
Prior to joining ECIPE, Robin completed an MSc in International Political Economy at the LSE. He also has an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Economics from the University of Exeter, where he was awarded a Dean's Commendation for academic excellence.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Adviser
- Member of ECIPE 's Steering Committee
Roderick Abbott is a member of ECIPE's Steering Committee and Advisory Board and a Senior Adviser on trade policy at ECIPE, covering issues which go from GATT and WTO to European trade policy. Although officially retired since 2005, he remains fascinated with the trade world. He is also a part-time consultant with KREAB, a Swedish economic consultancy in Brussels.
After 10 years doing trade work with the British Government, he spent 30 years in DG Trade at the European Commission. During its time at the Commission, he was working as a central member of the European negotiating teams during two GATT negotiation rounds: the Tokyo Round (1975-79) and the Uruguay Round (1987-93).
In the early years of WTO, he was the EU Ambassador in Geneva and he was later a close collaborator with Pascal Lamy, the Trade Commissioner. After leaving the Commission, he was for three years a Deputy Director General at the WTO in Geneva. He has written about how the Doha Round might have been negotiated differently, and about dispute settlement in the WTO - with a focus on the participation of developing countries in years 1995 to 2005.
Roderick Abbott talks to Deutsche Welle Business about the art of trade negotiations, negotiating for the EU and for the U.K. and...
Roderick Abbott writes about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the Friends of Europe's blog...
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Vice - President, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Research Associate
- Research Associate at ECIPE
Stephen Ranger is a Research Associate at ECIPE. His research interests are focused on North Korea, major trends in U.S.-China Relations, South Korean political issues, and security policies in the Asia-Pacific region. From 2009 to 2013, he was a researcher for the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative project at the East Asia Institute based in Seoul, South Korea. He holds a master's degree in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
Job Titles:
- Director of the International Trade Policy Unit, London School of Economics
Stuart Harbinson had a distinguished career in public service in Hong Kong. From 1994 to 2002 he represented Hong Kong, and then the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, in the WTO in Geneva. He subsequently joined the WTO Secretariat as Chief of Staff to Director-General Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi and then became Senior Adviser to Director-General Pascal Lamy. He has rich experience as a former Chairman of a number of WTO bodies, including the TRIPS and Services Councils, and the Dispute Settlement Body. He was Chairman of the WTO's overarching body, the General Council overseeing preparations for the launch of the Doha round, and of the negotiating group handling the formative stages of the Doha negotiations on agriculture. He has also chaired a number of WTO dispute settlement panels. After leaving the WTO, he worked in the UNCTAD Secretariat and for international law firms in Geneva, and has undertaken several trade-related technical assistance projects. He currently serves as a part time adviser on international trade for Penta Group, the world's first comprehensive stakeholder solutions firm.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor Emeritus, University of Antwerp and University of Leuven
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
Vanika Sharma is an Economist at ECIPE. She is a recent Master's graduate from Sciences Po, Paris in International Economic Policy with concentrations in Global Risks and East Asia. Vanika also holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (Honors) from the University of Delhi. She has previously worked on research projects with UNDP China, Rhodium Group, and UNESCAP, and currently is a professor of Statistics at Sciences Po - Le Havre. Her research interests lie in international trade for development, with a focus on digital trade.
Oscar Guinea and Vanika Sharma write an OpEd on EU trade dependencies and calls for strategic autonomy in...