Experts

Ado Koffi, Ph.D.

Koffi Ado holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Bern , Switzerland.  He has a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Leicester, UK, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Sociology from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.  He also has a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Administration from the Deutsche Angestellten Akademie, Ingolstadt , Germany. He has acted as advisor to the African Union office in Geneva on trade issues, in particular on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). He has also been a consultant to the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He was until mid-June 2007 an international policy advisor with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Mongolia and UNDP Mongolia office. Mr. Addo has published a number of articles on international trade issues.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (legal aspects)

Björkdahl Annika, Ph.D.

Annika Björkdahl is an Associate Professor of Political science at Lund University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Lund University. She extensive teaching experience in cross-cultural negotiations that covers international political economy and the relations between the “North” and the “South”, conflict resolution, diplomacy, negotiation and mediation. Her research interests include Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, Just and Durable Peace, Norms in International Relations, International Organizations, and Cosmopolitan Approaches to Conflict Resolution, State, peace and democracy-building. She has published and consulted widely in these areas.

Courses at trapca: TRP 303 and TRP 508: International Trade Negotiations and Cooperation

Bossche Peter Van den, Ph.D.

Peter Van den Bossche is Professor of International Trade Law and Co-Director of Studies of the Magister Iuris Communis Programme. He studied Law at the University of Antwerp (Lic. jur., 1982), the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LL.M., 1986) and the European University Institute, Florence (Dr. jur., 1990). He worked at the European University Institute as a research associate (1988-90) and at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg, as référendaire of Advocate-General W. Van Gerven (1990-92). In May 1992, he joined the Faculty of Law of the Universiteit Maastricht. From 1993 to 1996, he served as Director of Studies of the Magister Iuris Communis programme. From 1997 to 2001, Peter Van den Bossche was Counsellor to the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, Geneva. In 2001, he served as Acting Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat. He is consultant to UNCTAD on international economic dispute settlement, visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, member of the International Faculty of the World Trade Institute, Bern, and member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of International Economic Law.

Courses at trapca: TRP 502: Legal Foundations of International Trade and Development

Chinyanga Clement, Ph. D.

Clement Chinyanga is a professor working with the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). His specific areas of expertise include strategic management, planning and managing projects as well as e-commerce. Professor Chinyanga holds a Ph. D. from PWU, USA and a Master degree from Walse, UK.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (IT Skills)

 

Choukroune Leila, Ph.D.

Leila Choukroune holds a PhD from Sorbonne University. She is a qualified Lawyer to the Paris Bar. She currently works as Assistant Professor in international economic law at Maastricht University. Where she hold the position of Academic Coordinator for Project Implementation of IGIR and Deputy Director of Studies of the Advanced Masters in International and European Economic Law. Previously she worked as an Assistant Professor at HEC Paris School of Management, Law Department. Prior to HEC she worked in Hong Kong as Research Fellow for the French Centre of Research on Contemporary China and, in Paris, as Lecturer in International Law at Sorbonne University and Consultant for the OECD. Leila Choukroune specialises in the interactions between economic globalisation, trade and international human rights with a particular interest for Asia, China and India. She has published and co-edited several books on China and International Law and her articles appear in international scientific journals as well as in media.

Courses at trapca: TRP 502: Legal Foundations of International Trade and Development

Dieye Cheikh Tidiane, Ph.D.

Dieye Cheikh Tidiane holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Master in Development Studies from Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (UGB, Sénégal). He is currently working as a programme coordinator for the NGO Environment and Development Action in the Third World. Previously he has worked for the African Institute for Economic Development and planning which is a subsidiary to United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development

 

El Hadji Diouf, Ph.D.

El Hadji Diouf is Manager for ICTSD’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and Regionalism Programme. Dr. Diouf holds a PhD in law from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He obtained a Masters in International Economic Law from the University of Geneva and a Maîtrise de Droit Public from the University of St Louis, Senegal. He also holds a Masters in Communication and Media Sciences from the University of Geneva. Current areas of work and research include among others: development issues in international trade, agriculture, cotton, legal issues in international trade (WTO, EPA and Regional integration), article XXIV of GATT, GSP and bilateral agreements within Africa. Prior to joining ICTSD, he worked for several NGOs in Geneva on human rights issues, participating intensively for three years at the UN Sub-commission on human rights. Later, he joined the law firm Suter et Associés in Geneva working on WTO issues, before spending a short period at the WTO’s Legal Division. Dr. Diouf has been working for ICTSD since July 2002.Dr. Diouf is a citizen of Senegal.

Courses at trapca: TRP 102: Regionalism

Gappah Petina, Ph.D.

Petina Gappah is a Counsel, Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL), an international organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a doctorate from the Karl-Franz University in Graz, Austria, a Master of Laws degree from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Laws Honours degree from the University of Zimbabwe. Ms Gappah was a lawyer in the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organisation, which provides support to the Members of the Appellate Body. She also worked with several individual Appellate Body Members appointed as arbitrators to determine the reasonable period of time for implementation and participated in technical assistance missions and trade policy courses.

Courses at trapca: TRP 302: International Trade Law

Gathii James, S.J.D., Ph.D.

James Thuo Gathii is the George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law at the Albany Law School, USA. He holds doctoral and Master’s degrees from Harvard University, USA, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has taught and published widely in his areas of specialization, including commercial law, public international law, trade law and human rights.

Courses at trapca: TRP 302, TRP 502 (International Trade Law)

Häberli Christian, Ph.D.

Christian Häberli studied law in Zurich, Geneva and Basel where he graduated in 1977 with a Ph.D. on the subject of African Investment Law; he also studied development sciences (1973-75) and obtained a degree at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Développement in Geneva. After a short stint with Swissair, Geneva, as an Air Transport Employee (1977-78), his professional career started in 1978 at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with 2 years each in Madagascar and Thailand, followed by 3 years with the Swiss Development Cooperation in Nepal. As from 1986 he worked at the Swiss Federal Department (Ministry) for Economic Affairs: At the Foreign Economic Affairs Office until 1999 (UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNCED, OECD and GATT/WTO), and until 2007 at the Agriculture Office (WTO, OECD, EU – as chair of the Swiss-EC Joint Agriculture Committee). In WTO, he chaired the Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session) and served or serves in a number of panels, namely in EC - Bananas, Japan - Apples, EC - Biotech and China - Trading Rights. Numerous publications on legal and political aspects of trade, development, commodity and environmental issues, ethics, agriculture, non-trade concerns, and WTO. In WTI/NCCR, he works as a Senior Consultant on various trade, agriculture and development policy issues. Course at trapca: TRP 305: Trade Remedies and Dispute Settlement

 

Herran Roberto Rios, Ph.D.

Roberto Rios Herran is a graduate of the University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico where he studied law and holds a masters degree in Public Administration from the American University, Washington D.C. and a Ph. D in law from the Sorbonne in Paris. Prior to joining RRO, Roberto was director of legal studies and research at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland. After qualification, Roberto worked as lawyer for the major oil and engineering construction company in Mexico after which he joined Baker & McKenzie. Working in both the firm's Warsaw office and its European law centre in Brussels, Roberto's practice was focused on mergers and acquisitions, energy, EU and World Trade Organization matters. In addition to work for clients, Dr. Rios writes and lectures internationally on energy and WTO related issues. He is a visiting professor at HEC in France, Instituto de Empresa in Spain, WTI in Switzerland, and Capital University in the USA. He is also a member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).

Course at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (Negotiations)

Kaggwa Moses

Moses Kaggwa holds a Master in Law from University of Florida and a Bacelor in Law from Makerere University. He is currently working as the Commissioner for the Micro Finance Department at the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Uganda. Previous to this he worked as Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, and Senior Finance Officer for the Tax Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Uganda.

Courses at trapca: TRP 312: South-South Regional Integration

Katende Esther

Esther Katende graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University, Uganda, and later obtained a Master of Laws qualification in International Trade and Investment Law from the University of Western Cape, South Africa. She currently works as an Advocate in Kampala and teaches trade law subjects at the Makerere University School of Business.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (Dispute Settlement and moot negotiations)

Kessie Edwini, S.J.D.

Edwini Kessie works as Counsellor in the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Technology, Australia. He also holds Masters’ degrees in law from the University of Toronto, Canada and the Free University of Brussels, Belgium and a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Ghana.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100, TRP 309, TRP 504 (International Trade Law and Legal aspects of Trade in Agriculture)

Kindiki Kithure, Ph.D.

Kithure Kindiki is Associate Dean of the School of Law University of Nairobi. He previously served as Head, Department of Public Law and Senior Lecturer of International Law in the same University. He holds a doctoral degree in International Law from the University of Pretoria. He also holds a Master’s degree specializing in International Law and a Bachelor of Laws degree. He has taught and published widely in his area of specialization and is a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System among other professional societies.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100, TRP 302, TRP 502 (International Trade Law)

Kwakwa Edward, S.J.D.

Edward Kwakwa is the Legal Counsel for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as Visiting Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, USA, and also at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and the International Law Institute in Kampala, Uganda. He obtained his doctorate and a Master’s degree in international law from Yale University, USA. Previously, he had obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and before then a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Ghana, Legon, and Accra, Ghana. He is widely published on various aspects of international law.

Courses at trapca: TRP 302, TRP 502 (International Trade Law)

Lyewe Martin

Martin Lyewe works with the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). His specific areas of expertise are human resource management, office administration and management and conflict management. Mr. Lyewe holds a MBA degree from ESAMI, Tanzania and a Bachelors degree from Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (paper writing and presentation skills)

Mangeni Francis, Ph.D.

Francis Mangeni holds a Doctorate and a Master of Laws Degree from the London School of Economics in International Economic Law. Dr. Mangeni has taught law courses in Uganda at the Law Development Centre, Makerere University, and Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi; and in the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics. He has worked and consulted extensively on the multilateral trade system and economic integration. He was Legal Advisor to the Minister of Commerce and Industry of the Government of Malawi; a diplomat at the Permanent Delegation of the African Union to the United Nations and other International Organization based at Geneva, Switzerland; and has since 2005 been the Regional Trade Policy Advisor at the Commission of the African Union. He has written books and a large number of papers, reports, negotiation briefs, and advisory notes on economic integration in Africa and the multilateral trade system. He has been an advocate of the High Court of Uganda since 1994.

Courses at trapca: TRP 507: Regional, Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Policies

Mbobu Kyalo

Kyalo Mbobu holds a Master Degree in International Business Law from Georgetown University Law Center Washington D.C. He teaches International Trade Law at undergraduate level and International Commercial Arbitration Law at post-graduate level at the Nairobi University School of Law. He is currently involved in the compilation of the materials on student texts on Law of Evidence in Kenya, likely to be published later in 2009. He has been an Advocate in the High Court of Kenya for 22 years with good standing. His main interests are in Commercial Law and Civil Litigation as well as Arbitration of Commercial Disputes. He also advises several banks, financial institutions and insurance companies on various issues related to financial disputes, transfer of property, insurance claims and compensations.

Course at trapca: TRP 509: Drafting and Interpretation of Trade Agreements

Mukhisa Kituyi, Ph.D.

Mukhisa Kituyi is currently the Executive Director of the Kenya Institute of Governance. Previous to this he served as Minister for Trade and Industry in Kenya and as a member of the Kenyan Parliament. Dr. Kituyi holds a PhD in Social Anthropology, a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies and a Diploma in Science, Comparative Production Systems, all from the University of Bergen, Norway. He also holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Makerere University. Dr. Kituyi has also worked as Director at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Nairobi and as Programme Officer at the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD).

Courses at trapca: TRP 506: Political Economy of International Trade

Mumba Joseph, Ph. D.

Joseph Mumba is a professor working with the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). His academic qualifications include a Ph. D. from Strathclyde, Scotland and a Bachelors degree from University of Malawi. Professor Mumba’s specific areas of management expertise include energy project planning, environmental management and natural resource management.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (economic aspects)

Mwape Bonard, Ph. D.

Bonard Mwape is a professor of public sector management and the Director General of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). His specific areas of management development expertise include policy and public sector management, human resources management and leadership skills development. Mr. Mwape holds a Ph. D from Pittsburgh, USA and a Master degree from London, UK.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100 and TRP 508: Leadership in trade and Cooperation

Ngangjoh-Hodu Yenkong, LL.D.

Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu holds a doctorate degree in law from the University of Helsinki. He is currently a lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Manchester School Of Law. Before coming to Manchester in 2008, he was the programme coordinator on Global Trade and Regional Integration at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala-Sweden. He is also currently the head of NAI's Trade and Globalisation programme. He lectures and supervises PhD students in International Trade law broadly defined, intellectual property law and public international law. He regularly provides consultancy services upon request to African governments seeking to enter into RTAs, NGOs and international organizations and to related stakeholders on trade and investment-related areas. His specific research interests include the law and economics of the world trading system, Intellectual Property Rights Law, Public International Law, international development law, regional integration, SINO/African trade and African trade relations with the EU, and the US. He has published widely in these areas.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100 and TRP 509: Trade law, Drafting and Interpretation of Trade Agreements

Otieno-Odek James, S.J.D.

James Otieno Odek is a professor of intellectual property and currently the managing director of Kenya Industrial Property Institute. He is the chairman of the Paris Union. He holds a doctorate in juridical science from the University of Toronto, a master of laws and a bachelor of laws. He has an extensive and solid experience in international law and has published widely in this field. He was involved in the drafting and write-up of the popular WTO book, The Legal Texts: The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations.

Courses at trapca: TRP 302 and TRP 510: Trade Law and Intellectual Property

Pannizon Marion, Ph.D.

Marion Panizzon is an Assistant Professor of law at the University of Bern and a faculty member of the World Trade Institute's MILE programme. During the NCCR phase 1 (2005-2009), Marion was the alternate leader of the services group and a visiting scholar at COMPAS, Oxford University. Next to leading a four-year NCCR Trade project on the treaty law of economic migration (2009-2013), Marion was awarded a multi-year Swiss National Science Foundation funding to explore transnational migration partnerships. Marion received a bilingual law degree from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a PhD in law from the University of Bern. She spent two years in the US, first for an LLM at Duke University and thereafter as a research assistant at Georgetown University Law Center.

Courses at trapca: Labour Migration and Trade

Patek Stanislaw, Ambassador

Stanislaw Patek has 40 years of experience working in various positions from the Swedish Government and in international organisations. He has been highly involved in negotiations of trade agreements, joint commissions on trade and industrial co-operation. Ambassador Patek holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from University of Uppsala, Sweden. Courses at trapca: TRP 303: International Trade Negotiations and Cooperation

Poretti Pietro, Ph.D.

Pietro Poretti works for the European Free Trade Association, Geneva, Switzerland, where he specializes in international trade and investment matters. He holds a PhD from the World Trade Institute/University of Berne and a LL.M. in European law from Saarbrücken University in Germany. Pietro Poretti studied law at University of Fribourg.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100, TRP 302 and TRP 310: Trade Law and Trade in Services

Sabune Sheila

Sabune Sheila has a Master’s in International Law & Economics from the World Trade Institute and a Bachelor’s in Law from Makerere University. She is currently working as Legal Technical Officer for the World Health Organization in Geneva. Previous to this she has worked as Legal/Economic Affairs Officer for the WTO, Programme Officer for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva and as Legal Officer for the Permanent Mission of Uganda to UN.

Courses at trapca: Labour Migration and Trade

Pierre Sauvé

Pierre Sauvé is a Visiting Fellow in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE), in London, U.K., where he also serves as a Research Associate of the School's International Trade Policy Unit. He is also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland, where he directs a Swiss National Science Foundation research project on trade regulation in services. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques' (Sciences-Po) in Paris, France, in 2003-04. Since January 2003, he has served as a Paris-based consultant with the World Bank Institute, working on a range of trade-related capacity-building projects. He served as a senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993-2002, a period during which he also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1998-2000). Prior to joining the OECD, he served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations (1991-93). He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) as well as the Bank for International Settlements, in Basle, Switzerland (1987-88). Mr. Sauvé was educated in economics and international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in Canada and at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom.

Courses at trapca: TRP 509: Trade in Services

Woolcock Stephen, Ph.D.

Stephen Woolcock received his B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Brighton Polytechnics, an M.A. in European Governmental Studies from the University of Edinburgh and obtained a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He was Paul Henri Spaak Fellow at Harvard University in 1983-84.He is Associate Research Fellow at the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges. He is also Programme Director for the Masters in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, where he teaches international political economy, the political economy of international trade and economic diplomacy. He also heads the LSE’s International Trade Policy Unit, which coordinates research on trade topics, runs training programmes for practitioners and organises seminars that bridge the gap between academic research on trade and policy. His previous posts included Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (1988-94) and Deputy Director for international affairs and the Confederation of British Industry (1985-1988). He has worked as consultant and advisor to a number of international organisations including the EU and national governments. His research interests include: international trade policy; regional integration; economic diplomacy (including in particular European economic diplomacy).

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development (moot negotiations)

Zunckel Hilton, Ph.D.

Hilton Zunckel is a director and trade practitioner with Trade Law Chambers. He is also an external associate with the World Trade Institute Advisors (Geneva). He has previously formed part of South Africa’s representation to the WTO Committee on Agriculture, the International Grains Council, the International Food Aid Convention and Southern African Customs Union (SACU) negotiating forums. Hilton has also contributed meaningfully to capacity building in Africa while serving as a senior researcher with the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (tralac). He continues to serve as an external faculty member to several Southern African universities, and contributes to academic and analytical studies on trade issues. Hilton holds a Masters degree in International Law and Economics from Switzerland’s World Trade Institute. He completed his grain trade training with the Canadian International Grains Institute in Winnipeg. Hilton is originally a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) South Africa, in financial accounting and law.

Courses at trapca: TRP 100: International Trade and Development

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