Silke’s work focuses on trade negotiations, development, social movements, and gender. She is a member of the WTO’s Gender Research Hub and has provided expert testimony to trade policy-makers in the UK (DIT, DFID and House of Commons), Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has appeared on BBC World Service Radio and on BBC Radio Manchester. She has published in leading journals in International Political Economy, Development Studies and European Studies. She has taught Trade Politics and WTO Law courses. She has work experience with DG Trade of the European Commission and the International Trade Centre, a WTO-UNCTAD co-agency.
Silke’s recent policy outputs include a briefing on gender sensitive trade policy for the Women’s Budget Group and a Knowledge Synthesis Report on gendering global trade governance, which was co-sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
