Davide Rovetta

Davide Rovetta is a customs and trade lawyer at Brussels based law firm Grayston and Company as well as Of Counsel at the Italian international audit and law firm Specchia & Associati acting mainly as a trial attorney with substantial experience advising and representing clients in customs and trade related matters, WTO law as well […]
Dr Peter Van Den Bossche

Peter Van den Bossche is a former Member and Chair of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (2009-2019), and is currently Director of Studies and Professor of International Economic Law at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, and President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). Van den Bossche […]
Jesse Kreier

Jesse Kreier teaches international trade law, and consults on international trade law issues for international organizations, governments and private clients. He also coaches Georgetown’s WTO John Jackson Moot Court team. He retired from the World Trade Organization as Acting Director of the Rules Division at the end of 2018 after 26 years of service. After […]
Pierre Sauvé

Pierre is a Senior Trade Specialist within the World Bank Group’s Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, where he manages interactions with Geneva-based trade institutions and the donor community and represents the Bank in key trade-governance related committees at the OECD, in Paris. He served most recently as the WTI’s Director of External Programs and […]
Valerie Hughes

Valerie Hughes is a senior fellow at CIGI, senior counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and adjunct assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. She spent 22 years with the Government of Canada in various positions, including assistant deputy minister, Law Branch, at Finance Canada; director and general counsel of the Trade Law […]
Dr Luca Rubini

Luca Rubini is Senior Research Fellow in International Law at the Law Department of the University of Turin, Italy. Previously he held positions at the Law Schools of the University of Birmingham (where he was Reader in International Economic Law) and Leicester. He is visiting professor to the World Trade Institute (Switzerland) and the Freie […]
Dr Gabrielle Marceau

Gabrielle is Senior Counsellor in the Research Division (ERSD) of the WTO Secretariat, where she has worked since May 2020. In September 1994 Mrs Marceau joined the GATT Secretariat and for several years her main function was to advise panellists in WTO disputes, the Director-General’s Office, the Secretariat and WTO Members on WTO-related matters. From […]
Dr Mira Burri

Mira Burri is a senior lecturer and managing director internationalization at the University of Lucerne. She is also the principal investigator of a research project on Big Data and trade agreements financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (NRP75). Mira convenes and teaches courses on international law of contemporary media, international intellectual property law, digital […]
Dr. Tracey Epps

Tracey is the educator for the Technical Barriers to Trade module in the Professional Diploma in International Trade Policy. Tracey is an international lawyer and trade policy consultant based in Wellington, New Zealand. She works on a broad range of trade- and investment-related issues. This includes treaty negotiations and obligations under the World Trade Organization […]