Samantha Atayde focuses her practice on international trade and investment law, as well as in arbitration.rnrnPrior to joining RRH Consultores SC, she worked at the Office of the General Counsel for International Trade, Ministry of Economy for over 13 years participating in international trade negotiations, including TPP/CPTPP, Pacific Alliance, Mexico-Peru FTA, Mexico-Central America FTA and Mexico-Panama FTA, as well as in dispute settlement proceedings (investor-State and State-State) at different stages. rnIn September 2016, she was appointed General Counsel for International Trade and participated as Lead Counsel in the negotiations for the USMCA and the Modernization of the Mexico-EU FTA, and represented the Government of Mexico in WTO disputes and several arbitration proceedings before ICSID.

Simon J. Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also founded the Global Trade Alert, the independent commercial policy monitoring initiative. He has written a little on trade policy and the multilateral trading system.