Alicia Frohmann, Gender, Social Inclusion and Trade and ECLAC, Consultant

Alicia Frohmann is a senior trade policy expert, with experience both as a negotiator and policy maker in the Chilean government and as an international consultant to developing countries. She is Professor in trade policy at the University of Heidelberg Center in Santiago, and at the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile. She is also Senior consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), delivering technical assistance on gender and trade to developing countries (Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay) and the Pacific Alliance. She has served as Lead Labour negotiator and Technical Coordinator of Chile’s free-trade negotiations with the US, and as Director of ProChile, the international trade promotion network. As a consultant, she has advised several Latin American governments on issues related to trade and sustainable development issues, as well as gender-specific trade policies. She is Team leader, Project on Gender and Social Inclusion in Trade and Investment Promotion in Paraguay, BKP, EDM/Canada (2021-2022) and Senior expert for the TAF2+ (UKAid) project on Gender, Social Inclusion, and Trade Network (2019-2021).

Anu Peltola, Acting Head of Statistics and Information, UNCTAD

Anu Peltola coordinates UNCTAD’s work on SDG indicators and oversees projects to develop new statistics and strengthen countries’ statistical capacity, e.g., to measure

gender equality in international trade. In a joint project with UNECA and UNECE, UNCTAD supports interested countries wishing to measure the impact of international trade on gender equality and analyse the related impacts of COVID-19 using official statistics and building on existing data and capacity of each country. The methods and analysis are developed in collaboration with countries, the EU Commission DG Trade, UN Women and other partners. Amelia Santos-Paulino, UNCTAD, Chief of the Investment Research Section

Dr. Amelia U. Santos-Paulino is Chief of the Investment Research Section Chief of Investment Issues Section at UNCTAD’s Division on Investment and Enterprise, and Deputy Editor of the Transnational Corporations Journal. Previously, she was a Senior Economist at UNCTAD’s Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes Division. Before joining UNCTAD, she was Research Fellow and Project Director in the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Research Fellow in the University of Sussex’s Institute of Development Studies, and Senior Research Economist in the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. She served as Senior Adviser of the Dominican Republic’s Government on International Trade and Investment for the negotiations of the US-DR-CAFTA Free Trade Agreement, amongst other full-time posts within the civil service and academia of the Dominican Republic. She has also held visiting posts at the University of California, Davis, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo. Her work has been published in journals including the Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and World Development, and has also edited books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. She holds PhD and MA degrees in Economics from the University of Kent in the UK.

Amrita Bahri, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), WTO Chair for Mexico

Dr. Amrita Bahri is Associate Professor of International Trade Law at ITAM and Co-Chair Professor for WTO Chair Program (Mexico). Amrita has published in the areas of international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, capacity-building in emerging economies, trade and gender. She has authored the monograph Public Private Partnership for WTO dispute settlement: Enabling Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2018). Her academic articles are published in prestigious journals including Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, Trade, Law & Development, Global Trade & Customs Journal, and Journal of International Trade Law & Policy. Working with ITC’s team, Amrita has designed the very first framework to measure gender-responsiveness of free trade agreements. She explains this framework in ITC’s policy paper titled “Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements”. Anoush der Boghossian, WTO, Gender Policy Advisor, Head of Trade and Gender

Ms. Anoush der Boghossian is the WTO Gender Policy Adviser and the Head of the WTO Trade and Gender Unit. She was appointed as the WTO's first trade and gender expert by former Director-General Roberto Azevêdo in 2017. She is one of the Co-Authors of the WTO/World Bank report on "Women and Trade" and has published many articles and working papers on trade and gender. With 4 other experts, she organised and delivered a panel at SIEL 2021 Milan Global Conference on

"Mainstreaming Gender in Trade and Investment Agreements: Best Practice Examples & the Missing Elements". She is also the Chair of the WTO Gender Research Hub. Anoush is a senior staff member of the WTO with 15 years' experience in the Organization. Prior her current responsibilities, Anoush worked as the French Language Spokesperson ofthe WTO, as the press officer to the former Director-General Pascal Lamy and to the former Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza, focusing on media operations in Africa. She also served the WTO as the NGO Liaison Officer and managed the WTO Public Forum for 4 years. Cerme Balaban, OECD, Junior Trade Policy Analyst

Cemre Balaban recently joined the OECD’s Trade in Services Division within the Trade and Agriculture Directorate as a Junior Trade Policy Analyst. She holds a Master’s degree in political science and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in European Law from the University of Zurich. Prior to joining the OECD, Cemre Balaban worked at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the WTO and EFTA (UNCTAD, UNECE, ITC) in Geneva and the State Secretariat for Migration in Berne. Her current research focuses on trade and gender in the context of development and Aid for Trade.

Edison Yap, Interntational Trade Centre, Associate Economic Affairs Officer

Edison is at the SheTrades Initiative, the International Trade Centre’s flagship programme on women and trade. He coordinates projects related to gender and multilateral trading system, competitiveness and digitalization of women-led businesses, and communications.

Elisa Fornalé, World Trade Institute, Professor

Elisa Fornalé is Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern. Since 2021, she is the Principal Investigator of the SNSF project “Gender Equality in the Mirror (GEM)” which explores women’s participatory rights. In 2018, she was appointed as the WTI’s Gender Coordinator, with the mandate to implement the Gender Action Plan at the WTI. Within this framework, she created the Gender Team “Know the GAP”, which conducts activities to promote awareness and discussion about gender equality, diversity, and resilience to inequalities within our academic community and in a broader context. Against this background, prof. Fornalé initiated the “Gender Lecture Series – Know the GAP” in 2019 and the Summer Course on “Gender and Trade” in 2021. In parallel, she is implementing the SNSF project “Framing Environmental Degradation, Human Mobility and Human Development as a Matter of Common Concern” (www.climco2.org). The project aims to identify the climate-mobility nexus change through a pilot case study in the Small Pacific Island States- In May 2021, she has been appointed as Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on sea level rise and international law.

Jane Korinek, OECD, Trade Policy Analyst

Jane Korinek is an Economist and Trade Policy Analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her recent policy research has examined how trade impacts women and men differently, and how trade policies can support women’s economic empowerment. She is presently researching how trade impacts women in New Zealand in a joint project with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her other policy research has been in areas such as the benefits of good regulation in the extractive industries, global value chains, services competitiveness, impacts of regional trade agreements, trade costs, short-term trade finance and an early study (2005) on trade and gender. Jane is a Canadian and American national. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Duke University and graduate degree in International Economic Policy from Stanford University.

José-Antonio Monteiro, WTO, Research Economist

José-Antonio Monteiro is Research Economist in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Besides providing economic advice to dispute settlement panels, he conducts research on international trade issues, including sustainable development and inclusiveness. Among other things, he co-authored the WTO/UNCTAD "Advance Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model". He was also the coordinator and lead author of the joint WTO/World Bank Report on "Women and Trade", the World Trade Report 2017 on "Trade, Technology and Jobs" and the World Trade Report 2021 on "Economic Resilience and Trade". Before joining the WTO, he worked at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the Trade and Labour Programme, with a particular focus on labour provisions in regional trade agreements. He holds a PhD in economics in the area of trade and environment from the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), as well as a Master on economics and finance from the University of Geneva (Switzerland).

Judit Fabian, University of Ottawa, Visiting Scholar

Judit Fabian is a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. For more than two decades she has studied, advocated for and published on the inclusion of gender as a legitimate subject of global trade governance. She also studies and publishes on the theory and architecture of global economic governance. This includes her Ph.D. dissertation, “Towards a Theory of Democratic Global Economic Governance: Hybridization of Soft and Hard Law in the Case of Gender within the World Trade Organization,” completed in political science at Carleton University.

Judith Fessehaie, International Trade Centre, Senior Programme Officer

Judith is Senior Programme Officer, SheTrades Initiative, at the International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of UNCTAD and the WTO. In this capacity, she manages projects related to trade policy and women’s economic empowerment at global and regional levels; gender-disaggregated data collection and analysis; and technical support to national trade and trade-related policy reforms.

Lolita Laperle-Forget, WTO, Trade and Gender Officer

Lolita Laperle-Forget is Trade and Gender Officer at the World Trade Organization in the Trade and Gender Unit. Her research focuses on trade and gender issues, with a particular interest for the incorporation of gender provisions in trade and investment agreements. She has developed a framework to analyze the commitments for gender equality undertaken by African states in trade agreements in the publication Gender Provisions in African Trade Agreements: Commitments for Reconciling Gender Equality and Trade. She has also published in the area of international public law, WTO law, and the United States-China trade relations. Prior to joining the WTO, Lolita worked at the Trade Law Centre in South Africa where she contributed to a capacity-building programme for women involved in trade governance and conducted an extensive research project on gender mainstreaming in African trade and investment agreements. Marianne Matthee, University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science

Marianne Matthee is a full-time faculty member and research director of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa. Her research focus is on the field of international trade, particularly exports. Marianne’s interest in trade and gender research is centred on understanding the gender wage gap within exporting firms and possible transmission mechanisms of the gap.

Renata Amaral, Women inside Trade, American University, Trade Policy Expert

Dr. Renata Vargas Amaral is an experienced international trade lawyer, with an extensive and proven record of successful engagement at the WTO, bilateral and regional trade negotiations, domestic trade policy and market access. She currently serves as Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law, where she co-directs the certificate program on WTO and US Trade Law and Policy. Dr. Amaral is Founder and President of Women Inside Trade, a non-profit international organization created in 2017 that aims to contribute to the empowerment of women through its global network of professionals, specialized training and leadership development. She holds a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the title of Doctor of Laws from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Her current research in the field of trade and gender focus on the development of gender provisions in trade and investment agreements.

Sanaz Javadi Farahzadi, lawyer, lecturer and international adviser

Sanaz Javadi Farahzadi is a lawyer, lecturer, mentor and international adviser to United Nations agencies, European Union, governments, academia, and the private sector on technical assistance projects on intellectual property, international trade and gender equality in Europe, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. She holds a master in Intellectual Property Law, LLM in International Trade Law, Doctoral Researcher in Law. She has been working with the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, the South Center, UNIDROIT, UNCTAD, International Trade center, the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Cambridge University and Women in International Affairs Network (WIAN). She is the Vice President of the Organization of Women in International Trade, OWIT, Geneva.

Silke Trommer, University of Manchester, Senior Lecturer

Dr Silke Trommer is Senior Lecturer and PhD Programme Director in the Politics Department of the University of Manchester, UK. She has published widely on the international political economy of trade and is, among others, author of Transformations in Trade Politics: Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa (Routledge, 2014) and co-author of Expert Knowledge in Global Trade (Routledge, 2016). Her current research focuses on the spread of gender as a policy norm in trade governance, gender mainstreaming in global trade, and on the links between trade, health and gender.

Susan Joekes, University of London, Research Associate of the Department of Economics

Susan Joekes is an independent researcher, currently a Research Associate of the Department of Economics, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). She was for many years a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and has been on the staff of the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). At IDRC she managed global and Middle East and North African regional programming on gender and development, trade, employment, SMEs and entrepreneurship, and competition policy. Latterly she has worked on two gender and trade projects for the UK FCDO, advising low income countries on the development, design and implementation of inclusive trade policy.

Victor Stolzenburg, WTO, Research Economist

Victor Stolzenburg is a Research Economist with the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO. Before joining the WTO, he has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, UNIDO, and the ILO. He has obtained his PhD from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His research interests are in international trade and development with a focus on global value chains and gender equality. His research studies the interlinkages between trade and gender wage and education gaps in developing economies. Adam Jakubik, International Monetary Fund, Economist

Andrew Silva, Graduate Institute of Geneva, Assistant Professor

Dorotea López Giral, University of Chile, WTO Chair for Chile

Elisabeth Vanlieshout, OECD, Trade Policy Analyst

Erin Hannah, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Associate Professor Felipe Muñoz, University of Chile, Professor

Heidi Stensland Warren, World Bank Group, Senior Private Sector Specialist

Jan Yves Remy, American University Washington College of Law, WTO Chair of Barbados, Adjunct Professor Janneke Pieters, Wageningen University, Associate Professor

Javiera Cáceres, Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, Instructor

Jennifer Poole, American University, Associate Professor

Léa Rouanet, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank Group, Economist

Mariya Brussevich, International Monetary Fund, Economist

Nadia Hasham, UNECA, Trade Policy Expert,

Pierre Sauvé, World Bank Group, Senior Trade Specialist

Roberta Piermartini, WTO, Chief of Section, Research Economist

Sarah Mohan, International Trade Centre, Programme Officer

Simonetta Zarrilli, UNCTAD, Chief of Programme

Theresa Carpenter, University of Sussex, Affiliated Faculty

Valentina Rollo, International Trade Centre, Economist