HYBRID EVENT
Venue: Hybrid – Geneva Graduate Institute’s Conference Center, Petal 5.
To open Geneva Trade Week 2024, this public event will focus on how to foster urgently-needed multilateral cooperation and collective action on the nexus of trade, climate, and sustainable development at the WTO.
Building on the growing engagement of WTO members in discussions on trade and sustainability and the broad recognition of the need to forge collaboration, the focus of the panel is to spur discussion on a proactive, forward-looking agenda: How can we enhance international cooperation on trade at the WTO to drive action on the Paris climate goals in ways that support sustainable development priorities? The event will bring together a diverse group of leading international experts and Geneva-based ambassadors to the WTO to share their thoughts on both pragmatic options and unconventional ideas on ways forward.
Geneva Trade Week is hosted annually at the Geneva Graduate Institute by the Geneva Trade Platform in the margins of the WTO Public Forum. The event will be webcast live.
Agenda:
13:00 – 13:05 Welcome remarks to open Geneva Trade Week
- Mr. Dmitry Grozoubinski, Executive Director, Geneva Trade Platform
- Dr. Carolyn DEERE BIRKBECK, Executive Director, Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) (moderator)
13:10 – 13:20 Opening remarks and setting the scene
- Mr. Jean-Marie PAUGAM, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization (TBC)
13:20 – 13:50 Expert views on pragmatic options and unconventional thinking
- Dr. Rachel KYTE, Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (online )
- Dr. Henry Huiyao WANG, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), China
- Dr. Inu MANAK, Fellow for Trade Policy, The Council on Foreign Relations, United States
- Mr. Ignacio BERCERO, former Director, DG Trade, European Commission, Brussels (online)
- Dr. Jan Yves REMY, Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services, University of the West Indies
- Ms. Bernice LEE, Hoffmann Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House, United Kingdom (online)
13:50 – 14:35 Roundtable of Ambassadors
5-minute reflections each from a diverse group of Geneva-based Ambassadors to the WTO, including:
- H.E. Mr. James BAXTER, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Australia to the WTO
- H.E. Mr. Matthew WILSON, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Coordinator of the WTO Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group
- H.E. Ms. Clare KELLY, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the WTO
- H.E. Mr. Ali Sarfraz HUSSAIN, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the WTO
- H.E. Mr. Erwin BOLLINGER, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO
- H.E. Mr. Raul CANO RICCIARDI, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the WTO
- H.E. Ms. Nella Pepe TAVITA-LEVY, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
- H.E. Mr. LI Chenggang, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of China to the WTO
14:35 – 14:40 Concluding Remarks
- Closing remarks
