High-level IIA Conference 2019 - Speakers and Co-chairs
Statements > (click on the country or organization to see the statement)
CHIEF NEGOTIATORS AND COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES > (click to see the pictures)
- H.E. Dr. Sahar Nasr, Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Egypt
- Angola, José Chinjamba, Executive Director, Agency for Private Investment and Promotion of Exports
- Australia, Patricia Holmes, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission to the WTO
- Austria, Caroline Wörgötter, Head of Unit, Multilateral Foreign Economic Relations, External Trade Strategy, CSR, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Samira Sulejmanovic, Head, Department for Bilateral Trade Relations, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations
- Burkina Faso, Mahamady Koussoube, Director, Investment Facilitation, Burkina Faso Investment Agency
- Cambodia, Sar Senera, Director, Department of Legal Affairs and Investment Law, Council for the Development
- Canada, Shamali Gupta, Deputy Director, Investment Trade Policy Division Global Affairs Canada
- China, Chenghua Jiang, Deputy Director General, Department of Treaty and Law, Ministry of Commerce
- China, Zixuan Zhou, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission to the WTO
- Cote d'Ivoire, Salomon Akré Bieffo, Director, Strategy Planning, Studies and Statistics
- Croatia, Irena Alajbeg, Director for Trade and Investment Policy, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
- Denmark, Mads Lunde, Senior Advisor, Trade Policy Department, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ecuador, Claudia Salgado Levy, Director, National Directorate of International Affairs and Arbitration
- Ecuador, Carlos Aguirre, First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the WTO
- European Union, Carlo Pettinato, Head of Unit, Investment Policy, European Commission
- European Union, Colin Brown, Deputy Head of Unit, Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy, European Commission and Head of the EU Delegation to UNCITRAL WGIII (ISDS Reform)
- Germany, Achim Hartig, Managing Director, Germany Trade and Invest
- India, Supriya Anand, Assistant Director, IITF Section, Investment Division, Ministry of Finance
- Indonesia, L. Amrih Jinangkung, Director, Legal and Treaties on Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Mexico, Yara Fosado, Counsellor, Permanent Mission, Geneva
- Mongolia, Undrakh Bold, Officer of Investment Promotion Division, National Development Agency
- Montenegro, Jovana Krunic, Head, Department for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Economy
- Namibia, Angela Pretorius, Deputy Director, Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development
- Nepal, Yam Kumari Khatiwada, Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
- Nepal, Dinesh Bhattarai, Joint Secretary and Head, Industrial and Investment Promotion Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies
- Netherlands, Caroline Kollau, Director, Trade Policy and Economic Governance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Nigeria, Yewande Sadiku, Executive Secretary and CEO, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission
- Saudi Arabia, Ayedh H. Al-Otaibi, Deputy Governor, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority
- Serbia, Jasmina Roskic, Head, International Agreements and Foreign Trade Department, Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications
- South Africa, H.E. Xolelwa Mlumbi-Peter, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO
- South Africa, Mustaqueem de Gama, Counsellor, Permanent Mission to the WTO
- Sri Lanka, Champika Malalgoda, Director General, Board of Investment
- Switzerland, Felix Imhof, Deputy Head of Division, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
- United Kingdom, Anuj Mathew, Senior Economic Adviser and Head, Investment Promotion and Policy Analysis, Department for International Trade
INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS> (click to see the pictures)
- African Union, Roslyn Ng’eno, Senior Investment Expert, AfCFTA Unit, Department of Trade and Industry
- CARICOM Secretariat, Chantal Ononaiwu, Trade Policy and Legal Specialist, Office of Trade Negotiations
- Commonwealth Secretariat, Opeyemi Abebe, Adviser, Trade Competitiveness
- EESC, Tanja Buzek, Member
- Energy Charter, Alejandro Carballo, General Counsel and Head of the Conflict Resolution Centre
- ICSID (video), Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General
- OECD, Ana Novik, Head, Investment Division
- OECD, David Gaukrodger, Senior Legal Adviser
- OHCHR, Lene Wendland, Chief, Business and Human Rights
- PAM, H.E. Gerhard Putman Cramer, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva
- South Centre, Daniel Uribe Terán, Program Officer, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Programme
- UNCITRAL (video), Corinne Montineri, Senior Legal Officer
- UNECA, David Luke, Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre
PRIVATE SECTOR > (click to see the pictures)
- AFEP, Marc Poulain, International Trade Negotiations Director
- BDI, Christoph Sprich, Speaker, Foreign Trade Policy
- GBI, Andrea Shemberg, Chair
- USCIB, Shaun Donnelly, Vice President, Investment and Financial Services, United States Council for International Business
- WEF, Matthew Stephenson, Policy and Community Lead, International Trade and Investment
CIVIL SOCIETY > (click to see the pictures)
- Both ENDS, Burghard Ilge, Policy Officer
- CCSI, Lise Johnson, Head Investment Law and Policy
- CEO, Pia Eberhardt, Researcher, International Trade and Investment
- CIL, Jansen Calamita, Head Investment Law and Policy
- GIZ, Christian Pitschas, Advisor, Sector Project on Tradeand Investment for Sustainable Development
- IIED, Thierry Berger LLM, Associate, Legal Tools Team
- IISD, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Senior Director, Economic Law and Policy
- IISD, Joe Zhang, Senior Law Advisor
- ITD, Duangthip Chomprang, Director, International Cooperation
- ITUC, Maite Llanos, Assistant Director
- TWN, Kinda Mohamadieh, Senior Researcher
- TWN, Sanya Reid Smith, Legal Advisor and Senior Researcher
ACADEMIA > (click to see the pictures)
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Dafina Atanasova, Lecturer, Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement
- King's College London, Federico Ortino, Reader, International Economic Law and Member of the Executive Council, Society of International Economic Law
- The London School of Economics and Political Science, Andrea Saldarriaga, Visiting Fellow
- Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Julia Levashova, Assistant Professor
- Universitas Indonesia, Yetty Komalasari Dewi, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Legal Center, International Trade and Investment
- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Markus Krajewski, Professor, Public Law and Public International Law
- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Rhea Tamara Hoffmann, Research Associate, Public Law and Public International Law
- Université de Bourgogne, Sebastien Manciaux, Professor, International Law and Member of the Research Center on Investment and International Trade Law
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Nicolas Angelet, Professor, Public International Law
- Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS-CERSA
- University of Amsterdam, Geraldo Vidigal, Lecturer, International Economic Law
- University of Arkansas School of Law, Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Professor, Law and Former Co-Chair, International Investment and Development Committee, American Bar Association Section of International Law
- University of Geneva, Makane Moïse Mbengue, Professor, International Law
- University of Geneva, Rafia de Gama, Faculty of Law
- University of Liverpool, Mavluda Sattorova, Reader, School of Law
- University of Southern Denmark, Steffen Hindelang, Professor WSR, Department of Law
- University of Wollongong, Markus Wagner, Associate Professor and Executive Vice-President, Society of International Economic Law
* The statements are available in the language in which they were received