The Trade and Public Policy Network is here to connect you with experts in various areas of UK trade and public policy.
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Emily Jones, TaPP Co-Director
Associate Professor in Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Expert in: Digital trade, trade negotiations, digital economy, governance and scrutiny
Emily is a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons' International Trade Committee. She directs the Global Economic Governance Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, which fosters research and debate on how to make the global economy inclusive and sustainable. Emily's academic research is on the political economy of global trade and finance and she is currently leading a project on digital trade. Emily teaches graduate and executive courses on international political economy and negotiation strategy. She is a member of the UK Department of International Trade's Thematic Working Groups on sustainability and international development.
Emily’s recent policy outputs include a policy paper on UK digital trade and a written evidence submission on digital trade and data to the UK Parliament.
Gregory Messenger, TaPP Co-Director
Professor of Trade Law & Policy, University of Bristol
Expert in: Economic diplomacy, public health, sustainable development, dispute settlement, trade negotiations
Greg is a specialist in world trade law and policy. His research focusses on economic diplomacy and its interface with key policy areas including public health, sustainable development, climate policy , and dispute settlement.
Greg frequently engages with policy professionals, having spent four years working on trade law and policy in the UK government (2018-2022), giving evidence to Parliament, and consulting for governments, international organisations, and agencies. Additionally, he sits as TaPP representative on the the UK's Trade & Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group: an independent body, tasked with monitoring and advising the UK government on issues relating to the implementation of the trade and sustainable development chapters of the UK’s trade agreements..
Jun Du, TaPP Co-Director
Professor of Economics, Aston Business School
Expert in: Competition policy, Digital economy, Food and agriculture, Foreign investment, Impact assessments, Industrial policy, Intellectual property, Services, Supply-chain management, Automotive, global value chains
Jun Du is a Professor of Economics at Aston Business School and the Founding Director of the Centre for Business Prosperity. She leads the Internationalisation research at the Enterprise Research Centre and is a recognised expert in UK trade, firm internationalisation, innovation, and productivity. Her current focus is on the empirical and policy issues related to UK trade and productivity post Brexit in the context of evolving global value chains. Her research is widely supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Leverhulme Foundation, NESTA, and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, UK government agencies, including the Department for Business and Trade and the Scottish Government. Jun is a valued member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Grant Assessment Panel and serves on the Council of Experts for the Innovation and Research Caucus. She holds key advisory roles with the British Chamber of Commerce Global Britain Challenge Group, the Business Commission West Midlands Advisory Panel, and the Midlands Engine Observatory Program Board.
Susan Ariel Aaronson
Research Professor and Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, Co-PI NSF-NIST Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society, The George Washington University
Expert in: Digital trade, AI and trade, trade and human rights, protectionism, data governance and history of trade liberalisation
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a leading scholar of digital trade and data governance and the founder/Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. The Hub educates policymakers and the public on data driven change, data governance, and digital trade and has created the world's first metric on comprehensive data governance (policies, structures and strategies). We are now revising the metric into a metric of data governance for AI. Aaronson is the author of numerous articles and policy briefs on trade issues and has advised US, UK, and Canadian officials on trade and data governance issues.
Titilayo Adebola
Director, Centre for Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen
Expert in: International Economic Law, Intellectual Property Law, Food and Agriculture Law, Development
Titilayo Adebola is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen where she is the Theme Coordinator for Intellectual Property Law and Director, Centre for Commercial Law. Her research and teaching interests are in International Economic Law, particularly, Intellectual Property, Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law and New/Emerging Technologies. Dr Adebola is a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. She sits on the editorial/advisory boards of Afronomicslaw.org, Flora IP and Journal of International Economic Law.
Prachi Agarwal
Senior Research Officer at the International Economic Development Group, ODI
Expert in: Free trade agreements, Regional trade, Regional value chains, Rules of origin, Trade-in services
Prachi is a Senior Research Officer at the International Economic Development Group, ODI. In the last decade, she has worked extensively on empirical analysis of trade policy, digital trade, regional trade agreements, and sustainable growth to inform better policies globally. Her recent research work includes the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on trade, and value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as countries in Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Prachi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Donatella Alessandrini
Professor of Law, University of Kent
Expert in: Trade and development, trade and gender, global value chains, inequalities, WTO, labour rights
Donatella specialises in international economic law, with a focus on trade and development theory, trade and inequalities, and law and feminist political economy. Her recent work investigates the claims of international economic institutions (such as the World Bank and the WTO) about the development potential of global value chains. Her research explores the relations between international legal arrangements and socio-economic inequalities. Donatella regularly works with NGOs on development, investment, labour and gender issues relating to value chain trade.
Donatella's recent policy outputs include a brief on global value chains, trade and inequalities.
Billy Melo Araujo
Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast School of Law
Expert in: Trade in Services, Sustainable Development, Labour, Gender, Governance and scrutiny
Dr. Billy Melo Araujo’s research focus on international trade law and EU external trade relations. He has published on issues such as trade in services, trade and sustainable development and the democratic legitimacy of trade agreements. He has advised, on a consultancy basis, the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy on trade law related matters and provided training to the governments of Northern, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on international trade law. He has also given evidence to the International Trade Committee of the House of Commons as well as the Finance and Constitution Committee of the Scottish parliament.
Danae Azaria
Associate Professor (UCL, Faculty of Laws)
Expert in: Security exceptions, countermeasures, energy trade, GATT, Dispute settlement
Dr Azaria is Associate Professor at UCL, Faculty of Laws. She is the Director of the research project ‘State Silence’ funded by the European Research Council. She is a laureate of the Guggenheim Prize in Public International Law (2017), Book Reviews editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, member of the Advisory Panel of Public International Law of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Submarine Pipelines and Cables, and member of the ILA Committee on Use of Force. She has held prestigious fellowships including as Senior Humboldt Fellow (von Humboldt Foundation).
Shamel Azmeh
Lecturer, Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester
Expert in: Trade agreements, digital trade, World Trade Organisation, development, foreign investment, industrial policy, labour rights
Shamel Azmeh is a lecturer at the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the University of Manchester. His work focuses on global economic governance, international trade agreements, and digital trade
Karishma Banga
Assistant Professor in Digital Economy at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
Expert in: Development, Digital Economy, Foreign Investment, Industrial Policy, Trade Negotiations
Karishma's ongoing research examines Industry 4.0, digital trade negotiations, and Global Value Chains (GVCs) with a focus on development implications. She is also the Digital Trade Policy Advisor at the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network, UK. Prior to joining King’s, Karishma led and collaborated on a range of projects with international and multilateral organisations like the UNECA, Commonwealth Secretariat, UNCTAD, Afreximbank, the African Union, and the WTO.
She has published in high-quality journals, including The World Economy, Review of Development Economics, European Journal of Development Research, and the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. She has been invited to present her research to the UK Government, the African Union, the OECD-G20 working group, and the Chief Economic Advisor of India. Her research has been extensively covered by media outlets including BBC World, BBC Africa, Hindu Business Line, Voice of America, and The Conversation. Karishma has held research positions at the Institute of Development Studies (Brighton), the International Economic Development Group at ODI (London), and the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (Geneva). She has a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Lorand Bartels
Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
Expert in: Dispute settlement, public policy exceptions, free trade agreements, trade preferences for developing countries, mutual recognition, non-discrimination, quotas, digital economy, environment, food and agriculture, foreign investment, gender, governance and scrutiny, health, human rights, industrial policy, labour rights, national security, services
I am Professor in International Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall, where I teach trade law and public international law, and I also practise in trade law as Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. I am a general editor of the Cambridge monographs series on Trade and International Economic Law, and an editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade, and Legal Issues of Economic Integration, among others. I have advised several governments on trade law issues, including the UK on its FTA negotiations and certain legal disputes, and the European Commission on its recent proposed revisions to its generalised system of preferences. I was also responsible at Linklaters LLP for designing the UK's main expert level program for training trade negotiations from 2017-2021.
Caroline Bertram
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cambridge
Expert in: Trade-Climate Nexus
Caroline is a Carlsberg postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy. Her research is focused on the EU’s trade and sustainability agenda, mainly the interaction between trade policy and climate change. Still, she is broadly interested in the overlap between international environmental and economic governance, international institutions, and international political economy. Caroline has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and has previously been a visiting scholar at Ghent University. Also, she has been part of Oxford University’s Europaeum Scholars Programme for doctoral candidates. Prior to her academic career, Caroline held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Danish Parliament, and the Ministry of Taxation in Denmark, working on EU affairs, trade policy, and international climate and fiscal policy.
Carolyn Deere Birkbeck
Director, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)
Expert in: Multilateral trade policy, trade and environment, sustainable development, intellectual property, food and agriculture, governance and scrutiny, health, human rights, impact assessments, industrial policy, labour rights, public services and government procurement
Dr. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck is the Director of the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), a partnership of UNEP and the Graduate Institute, housed at the Geneva Trade Platform. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Global Governance Centre, where she leads a research project on transforming the global plastics economy, supported by the Swiss Network of International Studies. She is an Associate Fellow of the Chatham House and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Global Economic Governance Programme.
Enrico Bonadio
Reader in Law, City, University of London
Expert in: All areas of intellectual property, and their intersection with international trade
Enrico Bonadio is Reader in Law at City, University of London. He teaches, researches, and advises in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. His research agenda is wide-ranging, having recently focused on international trade aspects of IP, the intersection between IP and technology and IP protection of non-conventional forms of creativity, amongst other areas. Enrico has been delivering classes and talks in more than 130 universities and research institutions in six continents and frequently appears in the media as IP expert.
Carla Bonina
Associate Professor (Reader) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Expert in: Digital transformation, Single Windows, governance, trade facilitation, digital economy, international development
Carla Bonina is a globally recognized expert at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and policy, focused on driving impactful change for sustainable development. As a social scientist and author, she leverages her research to empower leaders in the tech industry and public sector to harness digital innovation, platforms, and responsible AI for transformative outcomes. Carla is currently Associate Professor (Reader) at Surrey Business School, and holds a PhD in Management from the London School of Economics, an MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy from CIDE, and a BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.
Ingo Borchert
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Expert in: Services trade, Digital economy.
Ingo Borchert is a Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School, Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO), and a Member of the Leadership Group of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP). His research focuses on policies affecting services trade and structural gravity modelling of services trade costs. He has co-created the global “Services Trade Policy Database”, published jointly by the World Bank and the WTO, and the “International Trade and Production Database.” He has been an invited speaker on services policies at the OECD, WTO, APEC, and has advised the UK House of Lords on services trade.
Mike Brookbanks
Research Fellow, Surrey Business School
Expert in: Customs Border Operations, Digital Economy, Regulatory Frameworks, Standards, Risk Management
Mike Brookbanks is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Digital Economy [CoDE], Surrey Business School. His research is currently focused on trust, risk, responsible innovation, supply chain visibility, and new governance models in the digital economy.
He is an advisor to the UK Government and the City of London on the digital transformation of the UK border, drawing on his experience leading the Reducing Friction in International Trade programme, which fosters collaboration between Government, Industry, and Academia. His recent projects include: EPSRC’s “Responsive Additive Manufacture to Overcome Natural and Attack-based disruption [RAMONA]”, which aims to develop resilience in 3D printing supply chains (RAMONA: EP/V051040), and the EPSRC Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECADE) [EP/T022485/1].
He combines academic rigour with 25 years of experience in industry, predominantly in Financial Services and Government.
He is a Fellow of the British Computing Society; a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering of Technology, and he is also a Chartered Engineer. He has co-authored several books, articles, and papers in international journals and holds several patents
Mira Burri
Professor of International Economic and Internet Law, University of Lucerne
Expert in: Digital trade, trade and data protection, trade in services, copyright
Mira Burri is Professor of International Economic and Internet Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She teaches international intellectual property, media, internet and trade law. Mira’s current research interests are in the areas of digital trade, culture, copyright, data protection and data governance. Mira is the principal investigator of the project ‘Trade Law 4.0’ (ERC Consolidator Grant 2021–2026). She consults the European Parliament, UNESCO, the WEF and others on issues of digital innovation and cultural diversity. Mira has co-edited the publications Trade Governance in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press 2012) and Big Data and Global Trade Law (Cambridge University Press 2021). She is the author of Public Service Broadcasting 3.0: Legal Design for the Digital Present (Routledge 2015). Mira’s publications are available at: http://ssrn.com/author=483457
Nicolette Butler
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester
Expert in: International Trade Law/WTO, International Investment Law, Trade and Health, UK Trade Policy Post-Brexit, UK/US Trade and Investment, Dispute Settlement, Foreign investment, Human rights, Impact assessments, Services, Trade negotiation, Trade facilitation.
Dr Nicolette Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester. Her research interests lie broadly within the sphere of International Economic Law (including International Trade Law and the International Law of Foreign Investment), and Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms. Nicolette is a Scientific Advisor for the European Public Health Alliance (Brussels) on matters of trade and investment policy.
Julia Calvert
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Edinburgh.
Expert in: Foreign investment investor-state arbitration Latin American trade policy inclusive trade policy
Julia Calvert is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on international economic law and the impact of international investment law on policy space, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Her book, The Politics of Investment Treaties in Latin America (2022, OUP) looks at the drivers of investment treaty infringement and reform in South America.
Liam Campling
Professor of International Business and Development, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London
Expert in: Trade, environment and development, trade and labour standards, fisheries trade, global value chains, the political economy and geopolitics of FTAs, WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations, food and agriculture, labour rights, trade negotiations
Liam is a political economist working on the relationship between international trade, global production and environmental change. Between 2004 and 2012 he worked on EU-African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) fisheries trade relations, global value chains and socio-economic development, including feeding into Economic Partnership negotiations and implementation on behalf of the East African Community, Eastern and Southern Africa grouping and Pacific Group. He has also worked with the Pacific Islands Forum Geneva office in their negotiations at the WTO on fisheries subsidies; and researched the negotiation and implementation of labour standards in EU free trade agreements, with a particular focus on South Korea and its automotive industry.
Kathleen Claussen
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Expert in: U.S. trade law and policy, trade agreements, trade and labour, sustainable development, dispute settlement and procedure, national and cyber security, trade law exceptions, WTO, foreign investment, digital economy, environment, human rights
Kathleen Claussen is Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Previously, she was Associate General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and prior to that, she was Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. She has served as arbitrator or counsel in more than a dozen trade and investment disputes. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law, and active in the governance of the American Society of International Law, among other leadership roles. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Queen’s University Belfast where she was a Mitchell Scholar.
David Collins
Professor of International Economic Law (City University of London)
Expert in: WTO and free trade agreements, international investment law, dispute settlement, digital trade, services
David is Professor of International Economic Law at City, University of London where he teaches WTO and international investment law and leads the City Law School’s Digital Trade Research Group. He is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal International Trade Law and Regulation and Series Editor for Routledge Insights on International Economic Law. David was nominated to to the roster of panellists for NAFTA (USMCA) binational trade remedies disputes by the Government of Canada. He has given evidence to the International Trade Select Committee of the UK parliament and serves on the Academic Advisory Councils of Politeia and the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Meredith A. Crowley
Reader in International Economics, University of Cambridge
Expert in: World Trade Organization, safeguards, antidumping, dispute settlement, trade agreements, firms in trade, competition policy, development, food and agriculture, impact assessments, industrial policy, services, trade facilitation
Meredith A. Crowley is a Reader in International Economics and Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She is a Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR - London). Her research, which focuses on international trade, has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review. Prior to arriving at Cambridge in 2013, Crowley worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She received her MPP from Harvard University and her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chad Damro
Professor of European Politics, University of Edinburgh
Expert in: Competition policy, trade negotiations, dispute settlement
In addition to Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, Chad is Academic Convenor of the FUTURES Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is also Co-Director of the Europa Institute and Dean International - Europe at the University of Edinburgh.
Agata Daszko
Early Career Fellow in International Economic Law, University of Edinburgh
Expert in: investor–State dispute settlement, environment, impact assessments, investment screening, foreign investment
Agata Daszko is an Early Career Fellow in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh and a Doctoral candidate at the University of Göttingen. Her PhD research concerns environmental impact assessments in international investment law and arbitration. She lectures in international investment law, international trade law and the law of energy transition. She is the Assistant General Editor of the Commentaries on World Trade Law (Brill), Academic Assistant at the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), and a consultant at the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University and a BA in Law with German and German Law from the University of Nottingham.
Arwel Davies
Associate Professor, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University
Expert in: Dispute settlement, public procurement, trade remedies, foreign investment
Associate Professor, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University. Dr Davies' research and teaching expertise are in the fields of world trade law and international investment law.
Mark Dayan
Brexit and Trade Programme Lead, Nuffield Trust
Expert in: Health, life sciences, medicines, medical devices, public health, foreign investment, public services and government procurement
Mark Dayan is Brexit and Trade Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, an impartial health and social care research charity. He works on the long-term implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark currently holds a Health Foundation grant for an ongoing Health and International Relations Monitor, tracking how the UK’s shifting arrangements with other countries affect the health service, medical supplies, care and the health of the public. He is currently working on trade governance and health, medicines supplies, and the CPTPP trade negotiations.
Sylvia de Mars
Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University
Expert in: General WTO law, EU free movement law, the CCP, public procurement dimensions of trade, public services and government procurement, governance and scrutiny, dispute settlement
Dr. Sylvia de Mars is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University, where she specializes in EU law and public international law. Her most recent work has focused on the trade dimension of Brexit, and particularly how it affects Northern Ireland. Alongside her academic commitments, between 2018 and 2020, Sylvia worked as a Senior Researcher in EU and International Law and Policy for the House of Commons Library.
Megan Dee
Lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling
Expert in: Trade strategy, trade negotiations, WTO, EU trade policy, governance and scrutiny.
Megan is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling. She teaches graduate courses on international negotiation, with specialism in multilateral trade negotiations. Her academic research addresses trade strategy, performance, and the politics of trade within bilateral, regional, and multilateral negotiation contexts, with particular interest in the EU, UK, and the WTO. Prior to joining Stirling, Megan worked on the FP7-funded project GR:EEN focusing on the EU’s trade performance and position in the emerging global order. Megan is an occasional media commentator on topics including international negotiation, security, foreign policy, trade, and Brexit.
Christian Delev
Lecturer in International Economic Law at University of Bristol Law School
Expert in: RTAs, WTO, dispute settlement, economic security, trade law exceptions, foreign investment, digital trade and investment policies, SPS, TBT, global value chains
Dr Christian Delev joined the University of Bristol Law School as Lecturer in August 2023. He was an Associate Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada between 2021-2024. Dr Delev previously taught international law and European Union law at various colleges at the University of Cambridge, and coached the University of Cambridge Jessup team.
Dr Delev’s research focuses on international economic law and international dispute settlement, drawing on doctrinal and economic approaches to legal research. Currently, he is working on projects concerning global value chain governance, green industrial policy competition, digital trade norms, and the structure of international trade law. He currently sits on the UK Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group as a representative of the Trade and Public Policy Network.
Mustapha Douch
Associate Professor, Economics, Edinburgh University Business School
Expert in: Trade Agreements, Tariffs, Non-tariff Barriers, Services trade, Goods trade, Firm dynamics, Firm heterogeneity, Productivity, Uncertainties
T.Huw Edwards
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Expert in: General equilibrium, Firm-level trade, Nontariff barriers, Trade and productivity, Trade and inequality.
I have been researching the economics of globalisation, international economic relations and international business for many years now. I also have interests in energy economics, and the interactions between globalisation, international development and governance indicators (such as human rights). I am particularly interested in issues which are policy relevant, but also extend our theoretical knowledge. I am active in research collaborations, and have for a number of years been involved in running and setting up conferences and workshops, as well as in editing special issues for journals.
Michelle Egan
Jean Monnet Professor and Co-Director, Transatlantic Policy Center, School of International Service at American University
Expert in: General trade policy, FTA, technical barriers to trade, standards and conformity assessment, single markets (EU, US, Canada), trade and federalism, governance and scrutiny, industrial policy, and general interest in industrial subsidies.
Michelle Egan is Professor and Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center in the School of International Service at American University. She is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, a think-tank in Washington DC. She specializes in international political economy, focusing on trade policy, governance, regional trade agreements, technical barriers to trade, standards, and regulatory cooperation. She is the author of two single authored books including Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (Oxford University Press). She has written about various trade agreements (EU, CETA, TTIP), trade policy, economic integration, federalism and trade, compliance, and is currently working on projects (EU-Australia FTA, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, and impact of trade policy on subnational politics in Europe and the US). She has briefed US Ambassadors designate to various European countries and participated in policy briefings with various US and European government agencies, including Commerce, NIC, USTR, European Commission, European Parliament Liaison Office, among others
Tracey Epps
International Lawyer and Trade Policy Consultant
Expert in: Trade in services; Trade and agriculture; Digital trade; FTAs; Trade negotiations; Trade and environment; Trade and climate; Development
Dr. Tracey Epps is an international lawyer and trade policy consultant based in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Epps has worked across academic, government and private practice. She previously headed the International Trade Practice at Chapman Tripp, a leading NZ law firm. She was also a senior legal advisor with the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs where, among other things, she was NZ’s lead counsel in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (now CPTPP). She teaches International Trade and International Investment Law at the University of Otago and serves on the Executive Council of the Society for International Economic Law (SIEL).
Ilaria Espa
Associate Professor of International Economic Law at USI Lugano
Expert in: Trade and environment, trade and climate change, trade and energy, trade and natural resources, sustainable development, subsidies and trade remedies, export restrictions, dispute settlement, food and agriculture, industrial policy, trade and climate law constraints
Senior Assistant Professor of International Economic Law at USI Lugano; Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI); Lead Counsel of the Natural Resources Programme of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan; Secretary-General of the Swiss Energy Law Association.
Nick Fahy
Senior Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford
Expert in: Health policy, health systems, EU trade, public services and government procurement
I am a researcher and consultant in health policy and systems, looking at how health systems work; what we can learn by comparing health systems across countries; and how to bring about constructive change in health systems.
Filippo Fontanelli
Professor of International Law and Practice, University of Edinburgh
Expert in: WTO law, free trade agreements, EU external economic action, Brexit, Investment protection and arbitration
Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law, Law School, University of Edinburgh. Adjunct Professor at LUISS (Rome) and Universidad La Sabana (Bogotà). Previously, academic fellow on international trade law with the Scottish Parliament's Information Centre and adviser to the Europe and External Affairs Committee (2018-2020). Filippo acts as counsel and legal expert before international courts and tribunals, and upon appointment by international institutions, including the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission.
Christopher Foster
Presidential Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Expert in: Digital trade, digital economy, e-commerce, development, industrial policy, services
Chris is a Presidential Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. His research focusses on the global impact of digital technologies and the implications of digital innovations on the global distribution of production, work and labour.
Martina Francesca Ferracane
Associate Professor in Digital Trade, Teesside University
Expert in: Digital trade, data flows
Martina is passionate about policy-making and technological innovation. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Trade at the School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies of Teesside University, and she is also affiliated with the European University Institute, where she manages the Digital Trade Integration Project. Her research covers digital trade, data governance, and creative digital education. Martina founded and manages FabLab Western Sicily, a non-profit organisation that brings creative digital education to Sicilian schools and she was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30. She acts regularly as a consultant for several institutions including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the World Bank.
Clair Gammage
Professor of Law, University of Bristol
Expert in: Trade and development, human rights, gender, labour standards, sustainable development, FTAs, WTO, labour rights
Clair is Professor Law at the University of Bristol. She is a generalist of trade law and development with a specialist interest in the linkages between trade and gender, human rights, labour standards, environment and sustainable development. As a socio-legal scholar, Clair is interested in the relationship between trade and human flourishing and her work focuses on the dynamics between power, (in)equality and (in)justice in international trade law. Much of her work analyses legal phenomenon through political economy lenses to analyse blindspots in international trade law. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming development in international trade agreements, with an emphasis on the way(s) in which trade law can lead to, and undermine, social and environmental change. She is currently writing a monograph on Trade and Women and this forms part of the longer-term research agenda to articulate an ethics for trade law.
In addition to her academic role, Clair has acted as a consultant with government institutions in the UK and she has provided expert evidence before both the UK and EU Parliaments on trade and development. Most recently, Clair authored a Briefing for the European Parliament on ‘Human Rights Clauses in EU Agreements with Third Countries: Exploring New Mechanisms and Best Practices’ (2024).
Dev Saif Gangjee
Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Oxford
Expert in: Intellectual property, TRIPS, geographical indications, trade marks, copyright
Dev Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Oxford. His research focuses on Intellectual Property (IP), with an emphasis on Branding and Trade Marks, Geographical Indications and Copyright law. He has advised the UK Government on IP trade policy and acted as an expert for the European Commission before the WTO.
Maria Garcia
Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Bath
Expert in: Geopolitics, trade negotiations, environment and social standards in free trade agreements, gender, sustainable development, EU, Brexit, transatlantic relations, trade policy governance
Maria specialises on the geopolitics and dynamics of trade negotiations and how these shape trade agreements, including in transatlatic trade relations and the Pacific region. Her work has also explored the inclusion of on labour, environmental and gender standards in trade agreements. Her recent research also covers UK trade policy, and she has led a GW4 project on business preparation and Brexit. She has given evidence to various parliamentary committees in the House of Commons and Welsh Assembly, and has consulted for the European Parliament on EU agreements with Latin American countries. She was a special advisor to the House of Commons International Trade Committee (2020-22), and member of DBT's first domestic advisory group for the implementation of sustainability chapters in FTAs.
Lindsey Garner-Knapp
Research Fellow, CITP, University of Sussex
Expert in: Intergovernmental relations, informality in policymaking, trade policymaking, UK devolved and Canadian provincial governments in international trade
Lindsey holds two postdocs with the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy spreading her time between the University of Sussex and Cardiff University. She's investigating the formal and informal fora and formats that exist within the UK trade policymaking apparatus through which various interests are represented. Lindsey has a keen interest in the concept of informality and co-edited Informality in Policymaking (2025) to problematize the concept as it emerges in policymaking. Using a novel ethnographic approach to study trade policy, Lindsey has worked with the UK devolved administrations and the Canadian provinces to explore the everyday activities of policy work. She also has practitioner experience as a policy analyst and advisor to the Scottish Government, Alberta Government, and the City of Airdrie (Canada).
Elitsa Garnizova
Founder and Director, LSE Consulting’s Trade Policy Hub (TPH)
Expert in: Political economy of trade, Non-tariff measures, EU Trade policy, UK-EU-US trade, Trade and regulation, Impact Assessments, Trade negotiations, Gender, Human rights
Dr. Elitsa Garnizova is the Founder and Director of LSE Consulting’s Trade Policy Hub (TPH). She leads on trade-related policy research, impact and policy evaluations, and stakeholder consultations. Elitsa has worked on a range of projects for public and private institutions on barriers to trade and investment and regulatory issues in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Mercosur and the US. She has written on vulnerabilities of the UK supply chains post-Brexit, US-UK-EU relations, implementation of trade agreements and sustainability issues. She holds a PhD in IPE from LSE, an MA in European Studies from KU Leuven, Belgium, and a BSc in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University, Italy.
Michael Gasiorek
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Expert in: Impact assessment, firms and trade, free trade agreements, rules of origin, GSP, modelling, development, industrial policy, trade negotiations
Michael Gasiorek is a Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex, Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory and Managing Director of a University spin-out company, InterAnalysis. Michael Gasiorek is a specialist in international trade policy and regional integration with a keen interest in the policy relevance of his work. He has extensive experience in modelling the impacts of changes in trade policy and recent research has focussed on how firms engage in international trade, the impact of Brexit on UK manufacturing, and on the impact of GSP preferences on developing country trade. He has published widely in both books and journals, such as the European Economic Review, World Economy, Economic Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Applied Economics and the European Economy; and has been responsible for the delivery of numerous reports and training programs on trade related issues inter-alia for the European Commission, the World Bank, and the UK government
Markus W. Gehring
Professor of European and International Law, University of Cambridge
Expert in: Sustainable Development, WTO Law, Climate Change, Dispute Settlement, TBT, SPS, EU Trade Law, Investment, FTAs, State Trading Enterprises
Dr Markus Gehring, J.S.D. (Yale), MA (Cantab), LLM (Yale), Dr iur (Hamburg), is Professor of European and International Law at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor in several law faculties around the world and held a Jean Monnet Research Chair ad personam in Sustainable Development Law at the University of Ottawa Law Faculty in Canada. He is also an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy, a Founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG). He holds a J.S.D. and LL.M from Yale and a Dr iur from Hamburg. A member of the Frankfurt/Main and Ontario Bars, he practiced European and international trade law with Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He serves as Lead Counsel for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies and co-edits the book series on Implementation of Sustainable Development Treaties with Cambridge University Press and is author of several publications on EU, International and Sustainable Development Law.
Alessandra Guida
Senior Lecturer in Law (Associate Professor), Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and UK Trade and Agriculture Commissioner
Expert in: WTO Law, sustainable development, climate change, agriculture & pesticides, dispute settlement, TBT, SPS, FTAs
Dr Alessandra Guida is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast–School of Law and UK Trade and Agriculture Commissioner. Before her appointment at Queens, she was a Research Assistance at UNSW Sydney, Sydney, where she worked on the international Mining the Deep Ocean project. She was also a sessional teaching academic at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, where she had teaching responsibilities in several areas, such as International Trade and Finance and International Law. Her primary research interests include International Trade Law and International Environmental Law, especially in relation to the international trade in new technologies and its impact on biosafety.
Doğan Gültutan
Lecturer in Law, City University of London
Expert in: International investment; Economic law
Dr Dogan Gultutan joined The City Law School (City University) in September 2022 as a Lecturer in Law. Dogan is also a practising solicitor, currently working for a city law firm as a Senior Associate and Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings). Dogan's research interests revolve around international investment law, international (commercial) law and dispute resolution. His PhD thesis, undertaken at The City Law School and completed in 2021, focused on the awarding of moral damages under international investment law, which thesis was recently published by Kluwer Law International as part of its International Arbitration Law Library. Dogan has also published several articles concerning international arbitration and public international law matters.
Oliver Hailes
Assistant Professor of Law, LSE
Expert in: International law, foreign investment, dispute settlement, State responsibility, environmental protection, energy transition, critical minerals
Oliver Hailes is Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he lectures public international law, international arbitration, international investment law, and transnational environmental law. He works at the interface of dispute settlement and general international law, with a focus on reconciling investment arbitration and climate change. He recently defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge on the sovereign rights of regulation, expropriation, and taxation. He is Assistant Editor of the ICSID Reports and co-edited a symposium of the Journal of International Economic Law on the energy transition.
Sarah Hall
1931 Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge
Expert in: Services trade, financial services, professional services, professional services mobility and migration, industrial policy, digital economy
Sarah Hall is the 1931 Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and the specialist trade policy advisor to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee. Her research centres on services trade, particularly financial and related professional services, with a focus on post Brexit UK. This includes the different regional implications of changes in services trade within the UK. She has provided evidence and insight to a range of trade bodies and policy makers. Her research has been covered my leading media outlets including The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph and Wired magazine. She was appointed an Editor of Geoforum in 2013 and held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship (2015-2017).
Han-Wei Liu
Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Expert in: Digital trade; platform governance; financial regulations; dual-use control
Dr. Han-Wei Liu is a Senior Lecturer at Monash where he focuses on law and technology and its implications for international economic law and financial regulations. Han-Wei earned his PhD, summa cum laude, from the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and law degrees from Columbia Law School and Oxford University. In addition, Dr. Liu held visiting posts at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools. Han-Wei’s work has appeared in top-rated law journals, such as Harvard International Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Journal, Cornell International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Journal of International Economic Law, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Journal of World Trade, Sydney Law Review and UNSW Law Journal. His papers have been cited by the Australia Productivity Commission, Australian Law Reform Commission, Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission, Japan’s Ministry of Finance, and used by in experts’ testimony before US Congress.
James Harrison
Professor (School of Law, University of Warwick)
Expert in: Trade and labour, trade and environment, trade and human rights, impact assessment
James Harrison is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. He teaches and researches on issues of international economic law and the transnational regulation of corporate activity. He has a particular interest in analysing the broader social and environmental impact of economic laws and regulations.
Tony Heron
Professor of International Political Economy, University of York
Expert in: UK trade policy, food and agriculture, the regulation and governance of trade, development, environmental sustainability, governance and scrutiny
Tony Heron is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of York. He is currently serving as a Parliamentary Academic Fellow to the House of Commons International Trade Select Committee. Tony is the author of three books and numerous articles and book chapters on different aspects of trade politics. Tony’s current work is centered on the UK’s independent trade policy, interdisciplinary global food systems research, private environmental standards in global value chains, and the politics of agricultural liberalisation. Tony is co- editor of the journal New Political Economy.
Tamara Hervey
Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, City University of London
Expert in: European Union law, EU-UK trade law, health and trade, EU external trade law
Tamara is a legal scholar with over 30 years expertise in the law of the European Union, and especially in European Union health law and policy. Since 2016, she has also developed expertise in what the UK's trade relations (both with the EU and with other countries/entities) mean for health. She understands 'health' broadly, to include matters such as NHS staffing, regulation of and access to medicines, devices, equipment or substances of human origin, health infrastructure, cross-border healthcare services, and broader determinants of public health.
Holger Hestermeyer
Professor of International and EU Law, King's College London
Expert in: Dispute settlement, non-discrimination, exceptions, free trade agreements, UK agreements, level playing field, intellectual property, human rights, health, national security, governance and scrutiny.
Holger is a Professor of International and EU Law at King's College London. He advises on these areas of law, has served as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords EU Select Committee, has given expert testimony to committees of the House of Commons, House of Lords, Bundestag and the Scottish Parliament and has frequently been cited on legal matters in the press, including appearances on the BBC and Euronews. In the past, Holger served as Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law and was a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the EU.
Peter Holmes
Director, InterAnalysis
Expert in: Trade and competition, software patents, dispute settlement at the WTO, TBT and SPS rules and MRAs, Brexit, Freeports, Border Carbon Adjustments, UK-US Relations, regionalism, UK-China relations, competition policy, environment, impact assessments, industrial policy, intellectual property, public services and government procurement
BA and PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. He taught Economics at the University of Sussex from 1974 to 2020 and is now an Honorary Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory and a director of InterAnalysis (www.tradesift.com) He taught at the College of Europe (Bruges and Warsaw) and lectured in China. He is a specialist in European Economic Integration and global trade issues, including the EU's relations with the WTO. He is interested in the relationship among the complex of policies on trade, competition, regulation, and technology; he has collaborated with lawyers and political scientists. He has written reports for the European Commission and the World Bank and given evidence to UK parliamentary committees.
Kateryna Holzer
Senior Researcher with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy, and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland
Expert in: Trade and environment, Trade and energy, Trade and climate change, Border carbon adjustment, Product technical regulations and standards
Dr. Kateryna Holzer is Senior Researcher with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy, and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, where she leads a project on regulatory cooperation on carbon standards (RECOSTA) and teaches a course on international economic law and green transitions. Kateryna Holzer holds a PhD in Law from the University of Bern and a PhD in Economics from Ukraine. She has many years of experience in climate change and energy research, teaching and consultancy, with a focus on trade rules and measures supporting sustainable development.
Gary Horlick
Expert in: Subsidies; GATT/WTO dispute settlement; Trade negotiations; Food safety; Climate change
It was all a matter of chance. After studying international law at Cambridge and Yale, I worked 3 years in development projects in South America, mainly Chile and Colombia. I then returned home to start work in a Washington law firm with an international trade law practice. where I worked on an early large GATT case and numerous trade disputes,, including many for British Steel. This led to work as the lead trade staffer for the US Senate, and then a senior job in the Commerce Department responsible for antidumping [AD]and countervailing duty cases, including developing the first methodology for evaluating and measuring subsidies. When party politics ruled out any further future there, I returned to private practice, fortunately for Canada for its FTA with the US [leading to 9 more, including the UK and a TPP country], and work for a free trading coalition of companies in the Uruguay and then Doha Rounds, and much more. I have chaired 3 WTO panels and 1 Mercosur panel and litigated many more.. as well as WTO fights about trade and environment. I have taught courses at Yale, Georgetown and Columbia law schools on WTO, subsidies, the international trade law of the internet, Brexit, and similar themes and published numerous articles in JIEL, JWT, International Lawyer and other journals.
Alexander Horne
Visiting Professor of Law, Durham University
Expert in: Governance, disputes, treaty mechanisms, parliamentary scrutiny, human rights, Brexit, EU law.
Alexander Horne is a barrister and academic. He is Counsel at Hackett & Dabbs, a Visiting Professor of Law at Durham University and currently serves as Special Adviser to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee. Prior to his return to private practice, between 2003-21, he was an employed barrister at the UK Parliament. He was legal adviser to both the House of Lords European Union Committee and the International Agreements Committee.
Stephen Hurt
Associate Professor in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University
Expert in: Trade and development, post-Brexit UK trade, labour rights, civil society, EU, FTAs
Stephen is a critical international political economist with a longstanding interest in the intersection of trade and development. This has formed a major part of his research on EU-Africa relations, the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa and the response of labour movements to free trade. His most recent work considers the UK’s independent trade policy and in particular UK-Africa trade after Brexit. Stephen has provided written evidence to select committee inquiries in both the House of Commons and House of Lords and was the lead author of a policy briefing for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Africa.
Sina Joneidy
Senior Lecturer, Digital Enterprise, Teesside University
Expert in: Digital Trade, Digital Governance, Data protection.
Sina is interested in making sense of digital trade regulatory reforms, including the Online Safety Bill, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill, and the governance of AI, through the application of Dooyeweerd's philosophy and his theory of modal aspects to clarify and understand complex situations in international trade and to guide policy and practice by the normative content of the aspects. Sina was one of the key members of the team that concluded the commercial research report for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which informed the formation of the Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation. He is a senior lecturer in digital enterprise at Teesside University and a digital sector lead at Teesside University International Business School.
Jodie Keane
Senior Research Fellow at ODI
Expert in: Development, Sustainability, GVCs, Industrial policy, Investment
Dr Jodie Keane is a Senior Research Fellow at ODI and leads on trade, climate change and development. Between 2015-2020 she was economic adviser to the international trade policy unit of the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has taught research seminars on the Political Economy of Trade, for the Department of International Relations, at the London School of Economics (2017-2020) and Comparative Growth in Africa and Asia, SOAS, University of London (2011-2013). She has a PhD from SOAS on comparative GVCs, trade and growth, and extensive knowledge of WTO and bilateral trade agreements, provisions of special and differential treatment, trade/environment/climate issues.
Sangeeta Khorana
Professor of Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship, Aston Business School
Expert in: FTA negotiations, economic modelling, regulatory cooperation, trade policy governance, EU, trade and development, GVCs, development, impact assessments, public services and government procurement, trade negotiations, trade facilitation, governance and scrutiny.
Sangeeta Khorana is Professor of Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School. She was previously University Professor at Bournemouth University. She has a PhD from the University of St. Gallen, a summa cum laude Masters’ (MILE) degree in trade law and economics from World Trade Institute, Switzerland and MA Economics from India. She has published several books, book chapters and journal articles as well as featured in the media. She leads research and advises governments on trade negotiations and public procurement liberalisation. She has successfully completed projects for Department for International Trade, ESRC, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission, InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB), World Bank-ITCILO, UNCTAD-India, among others.
Andrew Lang
Chair in International Law and Global Governance, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Expert in: Services, SPS, TBT, recognition, financial services, trade remedies, dispute settlement, exceptions, non-discrimination, level playing field, sustainable development, digital economy, environment, food and agriculture, foreign investment, health, human rights, impact assessments, industrial policy, labour rights, national security
Professor Andrew Lang joined the Edinburgh School of Law in 2017 as the Chair in International Law and Global Governance. Prior to that, he was Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. He is an expert in Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law and the Law of the World Trade Organization. He has a combined BA/LLB from the University of Sydney, where he was a double University Medallist, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge, supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. From 2004-6, Professor Lang was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, before teaching at the London School of Economics from 2006 until 2017. Professor Lang consults on legal matters related to international trade and investment, including most recently for the Bank of England, HM Treasury, Department for International Trade, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Financial Conduct Authority, European Commission, the European Parliament, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He has recently completed a commentary on the provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services relating to financial services.
Arabella Lang
Head of Research, Public Law Project
Expert in: Parliamentary treaty scrutiny, governance, treaty implementation, devolution and treaties, human rights, MoUs/non-binding international arrangements
Arabella's expertise on treaty scrutiny has been recognised in frequent formal and informal appearances before UK parliamentary committees, invitations to expert conferences and roundtables, and numerous published articles, blogs and book chapters. She is currently Head of Research at the Public Law Project and previously established and ran the Parliament and Treaties Hub at the House of Commons, after a long period as international law and human rights specialist in the Commons Research Service. She often works in partnership with her extensive networks in civil society, parliament and the academy.
Jessica C Lawrence
Senior Lecturer (School of Law, University of Essex)
Expert in: Trade and Environment, Trade and Human Rights, Investment and Environment, Investment and Human Rights
Jessica Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Essex. Her research focuses on international economic law and its impact on human rights, environmental protection, and social norms.
Rafael Leal-Arcas
Professor of Law and Public Policy, KAPSARC School of Public Policy
Expert in: Trade and climate change, trade and energy, EU trade law and policy, RTAs, development, environment, foreign investment, governance and scrutiny, human rights, labour rights, services
Professor of Law and Public Policy at KAPSARC School of Public Policy (Saudi Arabia). Formerly, Professor of European and International Economic Law, a Jean Monnet Chair holder (awarded by the European Commission), Program Director of the LLM in International Economic Law, and former Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of Queen Mary University of London. He was also a visiting professor at NYU Abu Dhabi in the UAE and the Inaugural Lee Kong Chian International Visiting Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law, Singapore. Dr Leal-Arcas’s research is funded by the EU Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, most notably a grant of EUR14 million as part of a consortium of 21 institutions to work on trade, renewable energy and smart grids.
Dr Leal-Arcas' recent policy work includes contributing to the Report 'Global Rules for Mutually Supportive and Reinforcing Trade and Climate Regimes' and authoring a report on Energy Transit Activities.
Desirée LeClercq
Assistant Professor of Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center
Expert in: Trade and labor governance, fundamental labor rights, International Labor Organization, multilateral trade policy, sustainable development, gender rights, human rights, U.S. administrative law, trade negotiations, dispute settlement
Desiree LeClercq is Assistant Professor of Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of International Labor Law at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations, and Director for Labor Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and, earlier, she was a legal officer for the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sohyun Zoe Lee
Expert in: Economic diplomacy, South Korea, Japan, China, Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific, Indo-Pacific, EU/UK-East Asia trade relation
My scholarly interests include international relations, international political economy, free trade agreements (FTAs) and regional economic integration in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. I am particularly interested in the processes and practices involved in FTA negotiations through the examination of interactions between various domestic stakeholders. I also work closely with policymakers and provide expertise in trade policies. My work has appeared in the Pacific Review and Contemporary Politics, among others. I joined Queen's as Lecturer in International Political Economy in 2020. From 2018 to 2021, I served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of International Relations, China Foreign Affairs University.
Giulia Claudia Leonelli
Assistant Professor of Law, LSE Law School, London School of Economics and Political Science
Expert in: Trade and environment, trade and climate change, carbon border measures, climate clubs, sustainable development provisions in trade and investment agreements, level playing field, public policy exceptions, EU and US risk regulation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, public health
Dr Giulia Claudia Leonelli is Assistant Professor of Law in the LSE Law School. Her research lies at the intersection of trade and environmental law, with a particular focus on carbon border measures, climate clubs, TSD/environmental chapters in FTAs, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, critical raw materials, and environmental subsidies. She has published extensively in leading academic journals. She regularly contributes written evidence to inquiries of the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee and the House of Lords International Agreements Committee, and in October 2023 she was invited to give oral evidence to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee regarding the UK accession to CPTPP. Dr Leonelli's research on carbon border measures and climate clubs has fed into policy discussions regarding the G7 blueprint for climate club arrangements.
Phoebe Li
Co-Investigator on the ESRC Sussex Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
Expert in: Intellectual property, Industrial property, Technology regulation, Digitisation,
Phoebe Li is a Reader in Law and Technology at the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology, University of Sussex. Her expertise revolves around intellectual property, technology regulation, and international trade. She works with partners around the world on complex issues in digital transformation. She is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC Sussex Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, examining the social, economic and legal implications of digital service trade negotiations post-Brexit. She is also a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS): Regulation and governance node, examining comparative approaches to regulating AI and the use in healthcare.
Henry Lovat
Lecturer in International Law and Politics, University of Glasgow
Expert in: Multilateral institutions; Devolution; Dispute Settlement; Governance and scrutiny; Public services and government procurement; Trade negotiation.
Henry Lovat is a Lecturer in International Law and Politics at the University of Glasgow. He was formerly a legal adviser with the UK Government and British Business Bank, prior to which he was in private practice as an English-qualified solicitor. Henry has also worked as a consultant with the Council of Europe, various United Nations bodies, and UK and international NGOs, and will be a UKRI FCDO Fellow in International Trade during 2022-23. Henry studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD, International Relations), University of Toronto (LLM), McGill University (MA Political Science), and the University of Manchester (BA (Hons) Philosophy and Politics).
David Luke
Strategic director, London School of Economics
Expert in: Intra-African trade; The AfCFTA initiative; Africa’s multilateral and bilateral trade relationships; Trade, industrialisation and structural transformation; Trade, inclusion and gender; Trade and public health; Trade and climate change.
David Luke is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of Economics Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa where he oversees the Africa Trade Policy Programme. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
Federico Lupo-Pasini
Associate Professor, Durham Law School
Expert in: Trade in financial services, Free Trade Agreements, Northern Ireland, ASEAN, trade in services
Federico Lupo-Pasini is Associate Professor at Durham Law School. He is an expert in trade in financial services and international financial law. He has extensive experience advising governments on the law and policy of Free Trade Agreements and services liberalization. From 2018 to 2021 he has advised the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy on the trade implications of Brexit for Norther Ireland.
Emily Lydgate
Professor of Law, University of Sussex and Co-Director, UK Trade Policy Observatory
Expert in: Trade and environment, trade and climate, trade and agriculture
Emily Lydgate is Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory and Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons EFRA Committee. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between international trade law and environmental problems and problem-solving. She is currently working on an EU Horizon 2020 project on the integration of Sustainable Develpoment Goals into EU Free Trade Agreements. She is an instructor on Whitehall's Advanced Trade Policy programme. She has previously consulted at UN Environment's Economics and Trade Branch, where she acted as a WTO liaison and was the programme officer for the Clean Trade Project.
Timothy Masiko
Assistant Professor in Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham
Expert in: Regional economic integration in Africa, flexible regional economic integration, trade in services, trade and sustainable development (labour and the environment)
Tim is a regional trade expert, focusing on the African integration process. He teaches International Trade Law and the Global Economy at the University of Nottingham, and his research considers the use of flexible and incremental integration to achieve broader integration goals. He has advised the EAC, SADC and COMESA on treaty development, implementation and review, predominantly on cross-border trade in services. He has also advised on and played a leading role in the development of Uganda’s trade in services policy. Tim is a member of the DBT’s Trade in Services Academics Advisory Group, and his expertise extends to trade and sustainable development, with specific focus on trade and labour, and trade and the environment.
Courtney McNamara
Lecturer in Public Health, Newcastle University
Expert in: Health; Employment; Labour Conditions; Income; Work; Health Impact Assessment
Dr. Courtney McNamara is a Lecturer in Public Health within the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. Dr. McNamara's research examines how international trade impacts on health and health equity.
Max Mendez-Parra
Senior Research Fellow, ODI
Expert in: Trade in goods, services, investment, trade agreements, agriculture, Africa, South America.
Max is a trade economist with more than 21 years of experience in analysing trade and trade policy in developing countries. He was a trade official at the Ministry of Agriculture in Argentina where he provided analytical support in the multilateral and bilateral negotiations. He worked for the Inter-American Development Bank in the impact analysis of multilateral and bilateral negotiations in Latin America. He has an extensive knowledge of the WTO and bilateral agreements. He has provided research and analytical support in the EU GSP Mid-term review, including the assessment of the use of preferences by beneficiaries. More recently, he has been leading the Sustainable Impact Assessment of the EU Mercosur agreement. He has extensive expertise in the assessment of trade policies in developing countries in Africa and Latin America. Recently, Max has led a serious of research programmes involving trade and investment in the UK and with the UK and developing countries. He is frequently consulted by the media and he has given evidence in many Parliamentary enquiries on Brexit and the UK trade policy. Max is member of the UK Department of International Trade Working Group on Trade for Development. Max is currently the technical lead of the Supporting Investment and Trade in Africa (SITA) programme that aims to support the negotiations and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). In this role, Max works closely with the AfCFTA Secretariat and other institutions in supporting the investment protocol negotiations. He is currently Principal Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute where he leads the Trade team. He is currently the technical lead of the Supporting Investment and Trade in Africa Programme. He has obtained his Phd from the University of Sussex.
Alistair Milne
Professor of Financial Economics, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University
Expert in: Digital trade
Alistair is Professor of Financial Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University. Previously he worked at Bayes Business School, Bank of England, University of Surrey, London Business School, HM Treasury and for the Government of Malawi. He has a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. His research spans financial technology, money and central banking, bank capital and risk management and financial regulation. He is the author of a comprehensive account of the 2007-08 crisis “The Fall of the House of Credit”.
In recent years the focus of his research and policy analysis has been on the economics of data technologies in money and financial services. Much of this work is on payments and digital currencies. He has written several papers on technology in global capital markets and payments for the SWIFT institute. He was the principal investigator of the TECHNGI project www.techngi.uk on AI and insurance, part of the UK £20mn Next Generation Services Research Challenge. He has also worked recently on disaster risk finance and on the potential application of insurance solutions to the current Covid-19 and future pandemics.
His primary interest in the TAPP network and in research on international trade is on the digital facilitation of trade. Specifically, his interests here are in: the creation and adoption global standards to support automation of operational processes in trade, including payments and insurance; and in addressing the co-ordination, business and regulatory barriers to automation of trade processes
Ming Du
Director of Centre for Chinese Law and Policy, Durham Law School
Expert in: Trade in goods, Trade in services, Free trade agreements, China trade policy, Trade negotiations, Foreign investment, Dispute settlement, National security, Trade facilitation, Industrial policy, Digital Economy, Food and agriculture.
Ming Du is professor of law and Director of Centre for Chinese Law and Policy at Durham Law School. He received a DPhil from University of Oxford and LLM from Harvard Law School. He has published extensively on international economic law, public international law and Chinese law. His recent monograph 'The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law' was published by Hart in 2020.
Neha Mishra
Assistant Professor, International Law, Graduate Insitute
Expert in: Digital Trade; Trade in Services; Digital Economy; Trade and Data Governance
Neha Mishra is currently an assistant professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. She was previously postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore. Neha holds a doctorate degree in law from the University of Melbourne. Neha has also held visiting research positions at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and the World Trade Organization. She completed her undergraduate degree in law from National Law School Bangalore (India), LLM in Public International Law from London School of Economics (UK), and Master’s in Public Policy from National University of Singapore (Singapore). Neha is a dual-qualified lawyer (UK and India) and has previously practised law with Herbert Smith Freehills LLP in London and Economic Laws Practice in Delhi.
Tibisay Morgandi
Associate Professor of International Energy and Natural Resources Law, Queen Mary University of London
Expert in: Energy security and energy law, sustainable development, trade and environment, foreign investment, climate policies and law, supply chains, dispute settlement and procedure, human rights and labour rights
Tibisay Morgandi is Associate Professor of International Energy and Natural Resources Law at Queen Mary University of London (School of Law). She is a general international lawyer with over a decade of experience teaching, publishing and practising in the areas of energy, environmental and climate law, investment and trade law, business and human rights (including ESG and sustainability matters) and the law of the sea. She has acted in international disputes before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). She has advised governments in Europe and Latin America, as well as inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, including the European Commission, Client Earth and Chatham House. She serves on the editorial board of Global Energy Law and Sustainability(GELS) and is an active member of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). She is listed as an arbitrator by the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (EDAC) and is admitted to the Bar in Italy. She holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD and a Masters in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Law Degree from the Catholic University in Milan.
Minako Morita-Jaeger
Senior Research Fellow in International Trade, Department of Economics, University of Sussex
Expert in: Free trade agreements (FTAs), WTO, trade policy in Asia-Pacific Region, trade and investment, services trade, trade policy and business, regulatory cooperation, development, digital economy, industrial policy
Minako is a Senior Research Fellow in International Trade in the Department of Economics and a Policy Research Fellow, UKTPO, University of Sussex. Prior to her current work, she served as a research fellow of the International Trade Policy Unit, LSE; an economic affairs officer at the UNCTAD in Geneva; a WTO services trade negotiator at the Japanese Delegation to the WTO in Geneva; and a principal trade policy analyst at the Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) in Tokyo. She has a multi-disciplinary background of international political economy, economics and law. She received a PhD in International Relations from the LSE.
Yenkong Ngangjoh H
Professor, University of Manchester Law School
Expert in: Trade in goods, dispute settlement, trade in services, regional integration, competition policy, development, food and agriculture, foreign investment, intellectual property, public services and government procurement, trade facilitation
Yenkong is a Professor at the University of Manchester Law School. He is one of the few internationally recognised Professors in the area of international economic law whose expertise is highly sought after by Governments around the world, UN Agencies, WTO and other NGOs for legal advice. His specific areas of expertise includes but not limited to, the law and policy of WTO, international investment law, international monetary law, international energy law, the law and policy of regional integration as well as public international law broadly speaking. He has written many books and over three dozen articles in these areas.
Tonia Novitz
Professor of Labour Law and Co-director of the Centre for International Law, University of Bristol
Expert in: International and EU trade, international and comparative labour laws, sustainability, migration and the protection of human rights
A graduate of the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Balliol College, Oxford, Tonia Novitz has held fellowships at the International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva), the European University Institute (Florence), the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland. She has been a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol since 2008. Her research interests include international and EU trade, international and comparative labour law, sustainability, migration and the protection of human rights. Her most recent book, Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving no one in the world of work behind was published by Edward Elgar in April 2024.
Jeremmy Okonjo
Assistant Professor, University of Warwick School of Law
Expert in: Development, Digital Economy, Foreign Investments, Financial Services, Governance and Scrutiny, Industrial Policy, Services Trade, Trade Facilitation
Jeremmy is an academic and legal practitioner with particular interest in the intersections between international trade, finance and investments law, and the digital economy, especially in the context of global north-global South economic partnerships. His current research interests include the role of data, and new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Ledger Technologies, and Smart Contracts in international economic law, international commercial law, and financial regulatory compliance (RegTech) and supervision (SupTech). In addition to teaching International Economic Law, International Commercial Law, and Financial Services Regulation at Warwick Law School, Jeremmy is currently engaged in research projects examining the role of digital technologies in the private financing of global South development, the role of international economic law and private law in constituting global value chains (GVCs), and also climate finance law. Jeremmy has previously contributed to Kenya case studies in World Bank reports on benchmarking of Public-Private partnerships (PPP) law and policy. He has also advised Kenya’s Ministry of Justice on the design of law reform programs.
Jeremmy’s recent policy outputs include a policy brief on global value chains, trade and inequalities.
Federico Ortino
Professor of International Economic Law, King's College London
Expert in: International economic law, WTO law, international investment law and arbitration, dispute settlement, services
Professor of International Economic Law at King's College London, Federico specialises in WTO and foreign investment law. Recent publications: The Origin and Evolution of Investment Treaty Standards: Stability, Value, and Reasonableness (OUP, 2019); Establishing a New Role for Antidumping Policy: Protection of an Unestablished Industry (Morocco-Hot Rolled Steel (Turkey)) in World Trade Review (2021).
Joshua Paine
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School
Expert in: Investment protection, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Investor–State Dispute Settlement, State–State Dispute Settlement (WTO and FTAs), sustainable development provisions in trade and investment agreements, exceptions.
Joshua (Josh) Paine is an international lawyer with expertise in international investment law (all aspects of investment treaties and Investor–State Dispute Settlement) and some aspects of international trade law (dispute settlement, exceptions, trade and sustainable development chapters). His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals; his latest article is ‘Autonomy to Set the Level of Regulatory Protection in International Investment Law’ International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2021). His ongoing research includes a project on ‘The UK as a Trade and Investment Law Innovator’ (with Dr Clair Gammage). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade.
Mona Paulsen
Assistant Professor of Law, Department of Law, LSE
Expert in: WTO agreements, dispute settlement, national security, international investment, GATT history, trade, development, national security
Dr Mona Paulsen is Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, Department of Law. Her research focuses on international trade and foreign investment law and policy, particularly the history of international dispute resolution and economic diplomacy, as well as the intersection of the global economy and national security.
Krzysztof Pelc
Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Expert in: dispute settlement, trade adjustment, institutional design, negotiations, trade remedies and flexibility provisions, US trade policy, trade and security, industrial policy
Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. Prior to Oxford, he spent his postdoc at Princeton, and over a decade at McGill University, in Montreal. His research is situated at the juncture of international political economy and public international law, and examines how the design of rules affects the odds of cooperation between states. He is interested in international adjudication, legal secretariats, judicial bias, flexibility provisions, labor adjustment, and the intellectual history of trade theory.
Ana Peres
Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex & Parliamentary Academic Fellow, House of Commons Library
Expert in: Digital trade Sustainable development, Emerging economies, Trade negotiations, Trade and investment, WTO, FTAs
Ana is an interdisciplinary legal researcher using a sociolegal approach to understand the participation of emerging countries in the global economy. She is interested in how those countries are redesigning the legal and institutional frameworks in the current geopolitical context. Ana focuses on multilateral and plurilateral trade negotiations on topics such as sustainable development, investment, and digital trade. She uses her research to shape public policies while striving to connect to different stakeholders, such as trade negotiators, government officials, civil society, and the private sector.
Ludivine Petetin
Professor of Law, Cardiff School of Law and Politics
Expert in: Agricultural trade, Agreement on Agriculture, Environment, SPS, TBT, Agri-food, WTO, Multi-level Governance, Devolved Nations, The UK Internal Market
Dr Ludivine Petetin is a Professor of Law at the School of Law and Politics of Cardiff University. Her expertise lies in the areas of agri-food-environmental issues and international trade from multilevel and multidisciplinary perspectives. She is the theme leader of ‘Negotiating a Turbulent World’ for the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP). And she currently is a TaPP Network member of the UK Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group. In 2022, she co-authored ‘Brexit and Agriculture’ (Routledge).
She regularly engages with governments, legislatures and stakeholders (including civil society organisations) across the UK and beyond on these matters.
Amy Porges
Adjunct Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Global Policy Program
Expert in: WTO, GATT, GATS, CPTPP; FTA negotiations; market access; digital trade; industrial policy; trade and environment; trade and taxation; national security; agricultural trade; procurement trade
Amy Porges practices international trade and customs law. In private practice since 2000, she has advised on trade strategy, trade law and trade and investment disputes under the WTO, free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. She now manages a boutique law firm. Earlier, she was a lawyer in a government, the GATT Secretariat, and major international law firms. She teaches trade policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. Her publications can be found here.
Lauge Poulsen
Professor in International Relations & Law, University College London
Expert in: Development, Dispute Settlement, Foreign investment, Governance and scrutiny, Impact assessments, National security, Services
Lauge Poulsen is Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons' International Trade Committee and co-lead on Whitehall's Advanced Trade Policy programme. He is Chair of OECD’s Investment Treaty Future programme (‘Track 1’) and served as Academic Advisor on trade policy to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2017 to 2020. Most of his academic work focusses on economic diplomacy, with emphasis on foreign investment, dispute settlement, and international economic law.
Raj Rajarajan
Founding Director, Institute for Cyber Security, City University of London
Expert in: Data Privacy, Identity and Access Management, Authentication, Trust Management, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
Emily Reid
Professor of International Economic Law and Sustainable Development, University of Southampton
Expert in: Sustainable development, just transition, trade and environment, trade and human rights, trade and labour standards
Emily’s expertise in international trade law has a particular focus upon the relationship between economic, environmental (including climate) and human rights interests and law. It also extends to regulatory decision making processes, risk assessment, risk regulation, and how these interact with trade law. Emily has provided expert evidence to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, Internal Market Sub-Committee on Future UK-EU transport arrangements (particularly focusing upon the maritime sector), and has worked with the UK FCDO on the development of an e-learning unit, ‘Trade, Labour and Human Rights’, for the Trade Policy & Negotiations Faculty. She has published widely and has taught several topics on trade law, WTO law, regional economic integration, EU trade law (including relations with third states), and globalisation.
Ben Richardson
Reader in International Political Economy, University of Warwick
Expert in: Food and agriculture, labour rights
Ben specialises in the international political economy of trade. His recent research has focused on the global sugar industry and on labour rights in EU trade policy.
Stephanie Rickard
Professor at the London School of Economics
Expert in: Subsidies, Public procurement, WTO, FTAs, Trade shocks, Compensation, Economic geography
I am a Professor at the London School of Economics. My research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of politics and international economics.
Niccolò Ridi
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public International Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
Expert in: Dispute settlement, public international law, foreign investment, human rights, national security
Niccolò is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public International Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, as well as a Research Fellow at iCourts, the University of Copenhagen. His work deals with international law (public and private) with a special focus on international economic law and dispute settlement.
Michail Risvas
Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton
Expert in: WTO, Trade in Goods, Trade in Services, Trade Remedies, Non-discrimination
Dr Michail Risvas joined Southampton Law School in 2021 and he is Co-Director of the Centre for International Law and Globalisation. He specialises in public international law, WTO law, and international arbitration. Dr Risvas’s experience includes acting as counsel in investment and commercial arbitration cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, and ICC rules. He is included in the different lists of arbitrators including the lists of the European Commission for disputes under EU trade agreements. Dr Risvas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Athens, and a doctorate and two Master’s degrees in international law from the University of Oxford. His book on “Discrimination in International Investment Arbitration” was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
Samuel Roscoe
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, University of Sussex Business School
Expert in: Global value chains, global supply chains, global production networks, digital economy, trade facilitation, industrial policy
Tzameret Rubin
Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes Business School
Expert in: Digital Transformation; Advanced Professional Services (FinTech, InsurTech); Accelerators; Financing innovation; Data Ownership
Dr Tzameret H. Rubin is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University UK. Tzameret has been working on several ESRC multi-million pound FinTech research projects, funded by the UK Government's Next Generation Services (NGS). She previously worked at the prestigious Australian Government-funded Research Institute, NICTA. Her area of expertise is the economic impact of innovation and digital transformation, in particular, Knowledge Space, business incubators and accelerators, and technological ecosystems to foster economic growth. Before her PhD, Tzameret worked for nearly a decade in the Israeli hi-tech sector.
Luca Rubini
Associate Professor in International Law, University of Milan; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, School of Law
Expert in: Subsidies and State aid; SOEs; industrial policy; competition; climate change; energy; PTAs; unilateral action; EU trade policy; trade negotiations; international law; history of trade law
Luca Rubini is Associate Professor in International Law at the University of Milan, Italy, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previously he held positions at the Law Schools of the University of Turin, 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 Universität Berlin and visiting fellow to the Centre of European Law of King’s College London. Sometime in the past he served as legal secretary in the cabinet of Advocate General Jacobs at the European Court of Justice. Luca has a special interest in the governance and regulation of the State intervention in the market, in particular subsidies, at both the international and European levels. He has published extensively on these (and other) topics. His 2010 monograph The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid: WTO law and EC law in comparative perspective (OUP) was recently translated into Chinese. Luca regularly advises IOs, governments, NGOs and private parties on trade and other legal matters. He is included in the European Commission’s pool of individuals eligible for appointment as both arbitrators for trade and sustainable development (TSD) experts in bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third countries. Luca has law degrees from the Catholic University in Milan (“laurea in giurisprudenza”) and King’s College London (MA in Advanced European Legal Studies; PhD).
Bettina Rudloff
Agricultural Economist, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
Expert in: Agriculture, Food safety and security, Sustainability, Development, EU trade policy towards third countries
Bettina Rudloff holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and began her career as an assistant professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. She then advised policy actors on trade and food policy at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht, the Netherlands. In this context, she also led a training course for WTO negotiators from developing countries on behalf of the EU Commission. Currently, she works for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin and is a member of several advisory boards, e.g. for the German Ministries for Economic Cooperation and for Agriculture.
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge
Expert in: Intellectual property, international intellectual property protection, TRIPS, FTAs, investment protection, public health, IP and development, investor-state dispute settlement, WTO cross retaliation, digital economy, foreign investment,
Working primarily as an academic at Cambridge University, Henning’s research, training and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, public health, world trade and investment law. Henning has published widely on the above topics. He has been training UK government officials on IP and trade since 2018, and frequently teaches international IP Law at specialised IP Master Programmes around the World. Henning has advised international organisations, NGOs as well as developing- and developed country governments on international IP, WTO and investment law issues and has worked as a legal expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on IP and development on several occasions.
Henning's recent policy work includes a handbook on negotiating development oriented intellectual property provisions in trade and investment agreements and a study on utility model protection in Pakistan.
Amrita Saha
Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Expert in: Political Economy of Trade Policy, UK-India trade, Trade and Poverty, Development, Food and agriculture, Gender, Human rights, Governance and scrutiny, Industrial policy, Impact assessments, Trade facilitation, Trade negotiation.
Amrita Saha is a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She is an economist, working on the political economy of trade policy and inclusive trade. Amrita has led and been involved on various projects and consortia funded by the FCDO UK, ESRC, International Trade Centre, and other international organisations. Her most recent work is focused on international trade and development, focusing on UK-India trade, South-South trade cooperation, agricultural commercialisation, and trade and innovation. Her work has been widely published, for instance in journals such as World Development, European Journal of Political Economy and Economics and Politics.
Albert Sanchez-Graells
Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School
Expert in: WTO Government procurement agreement, public procurement, competition, subsidies, state aid, digital governance, digital trade
Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently a member of the UK Cabinet Office’s Open Contracting Advisory Group and the NHS England’s Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel. Before that, Albert was a Member of the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. His most recent monograph is Digital Technologies and Public Procurement. Gatekeeping and experimentation in digital public governance (OUP 2024). Most of Albert's working papers are available at http://ssrn.com/author=542893. His analysis of current legal developments is published in his blog http://www.howtocrackanut.com.
Sunayana Sasmal
Research Fellow in International Trade Law, UKTPO, University of Sussex.
Expert in: International trade law; WTO law; climate and trade; regional trade agreements; trade negotiations; fisheries subsidies
Sunayana Sasmal currently serves as a Research Fellow in International Trade Law at the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex. Previously, she has held research roles with the Indian Government’s trade-advisory think tank Centre for WTO Studies and with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. She has interned at the WTO Legal Affairs Division and has also been a consultant for the World Bank and Tulip Consulting. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, where she was a Jagdish Bhagwati Fellow, and a B.A., LL.B. (International Trade and Investment Law Hons.) from National Law University, Jodhpur. Trade, climate and sustainability interlinkages have been her predominant interests in the recent past.
Mavluda Sattorova
Professor in International Economic Law, University of Liverpool
Expert in: Investment protection, investment facilitation, investment and sustainable development, dispute settlement, foreign investment, health
Mavluda specialises in international economic law, with particular focus on international investment law and investor-state arbitration. Her most recent work examines the interplay between international investment law and national policy-making and governance. She is member of the Steering Group of the Academic Forum ISDS, working closely with the UNCITRAL WGIII; director of the Liverpool Economic Governance Unit (LEGU); and convener of the Asian Society of International Law's International Investment and Economic Law group. Since 2019, Mavluda has worked as a research fellow at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, having previously worked in an expert capacity with the UNCTAD Investment Division and the World Health Organisation.
James Scott
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Political Economy, King's College London
Expert in: The WTO, China in the WTO, development, governance and scrutiny
Dr James Scott is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. He works primarily on trade governance, particularly with regard to developing countries in the World Trade Organisation. James did his bachelor’s degree in physics and philosophy at New College, Oxford, before moving to the University of Manchester to undertake an MA in Development Studies and subsequently a PhD in International Political Economy. His recent work has focused on areas including China in the WTO, the organisations providing expert knowledge on trade, and economic nationalism within the WTO.
Yujie Shi
Research Fellow, Aston University
Expert in: Non-tariff measures (NTMs), Post-Brexit UK-EU trade relations and regulatory divergence, SME internationalisation and export strategy, Digital technologies and their impact on trade and productivity
Yujie Shi is a Research Fellow at Aston University, working closely with Professor Jun Du on UK trade policy and international trade. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Liverpool, and her research focuses on trade policy, non-tariff measures, digital technology, and SME performance and innovation. She has been involved in several policy-relevant projects, including those funded by the Department for Business and Trade and the Trade and Productivity Institute. She co-authored the report Unbound: UK Trade Post Brexit, which was cited in Parliament and featured by the Financial Times and BBC. Yujie Shi regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals such as The World Economy and Open Economies Review, and is an ONS-accredited researcher.
Michael Short
Professor, Control Engineering & Systems Informatics, Teesside University
Expert in: Digitalization, AI, Automation, Systems, Interoperability
Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Expert in: Trade negotiations, impact assessments, services, foreign investment, regulatory cooperation, governance and scrutiny, EU, transatlantic trade, Brexit, health
Gabriel is a political economist with a long-standing focus on the politics of trade and investment negotiations, notably in relation to the EU and UK's trade policies and transatlantic trade relations. He has examined the politics of economic modelling; negotiations around services/investment liberalisation and regulatory cooperation; and the governance of trade talks. He is currently working on a National Institute for Health and Care-funded research project on challenges to health promotion regulation at the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Committee. Gabriel also co-lead a work package on the ‘Reconfiguration of transatlantic trade after Brexit’ as part of a recent Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics and is a participant of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Network on Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics (EUFOG). Gabriel has been a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons International Trade Committee (2021-22), having previously served as a Parliamentary Academic Fellow (2017-19). He was also a Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy to the European Public Health Alliance (2016-24) and was recently conferred a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Gabriel's recent policy work includes papers on the governance of UK trade policy from a public health perspective, on UK-US trade relations and on the performativity on UK trade policy post-Brexit.
Regis Simo
Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Expert in: Trade and Development, Trade in Services, Sustainable Development, Dispute Settlement, Trade Facilitation,
Adrian Smith
Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London
Expert in: Trade and labour governance, industrial policy, labour rights
Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. He has worked for many years on trade and global production networks in the clothing industry (with a focus on Eastern Europe and North Africa), and more recently on trade policy, global labour governance, labour standards and global value chains.
Fiona Smith
Research Professor, UK Trade Policy Observatory, University of Sussex
Expert in: agriculture, food systems, ultra-processed food, sustainability, global value chains, traceability
Fiona Smith is Research Professor at the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on international trade law, particularly agrifood trade, global supply chains and the impacts of agrifood trade on the climate and human health. She has spoken about her research around the world and worked extensively with government (UK and EU), and the third sector advising on aspects of international agrifood trade. She is a member of the UK Department of Business and Trade’s Expert Steering Group on the UK’s trade strategy in the G7, G20 and the WTO.
Marta Soprana
Digital IR Project Associate, LSE IDEAS
Expert in: Digital trade, digital economy, digital governance, artificial intelligence, free trade agreements, trade in services, WTO
Dr Marta Soprana is a Digital IR Project Associate at LSE IDEAS. Previously she worked as a Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she taught courses on the political economy of trade. She has extensive experience acting as consultant for international organisations – including FAO, ITC, UNCTAD, UNESCAP, World Bank and WTO – and national governments, and supporting private firms’ efforts to access and operate in foreign markets. Her main areas of expertise are trade in services, digital trade, and the regulation of emerging technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Her work has been published in the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade, Diritto del Commercio Internazionale and Trade, Law and Development, among others. With a multi-disciplinary background in international relations and law, she specialises in interdisciplinary research. She holds a PhD in Legal Studies from Bocconi University, a Master in International law and Economics (MILE) from the World Trade Institute (University of Bern), and a MA in International Relations and Diplomatic studies from the University of Bologna.
Peter-Tobias Stoll
Professor, Göttingen University
Expert in: Trade, investment, EU trade policy, sustainable development, dispute settlement
Tobias is a Professor at Göttingen University and publishes and teaches widely on international trade, investment and sustainability. He is a General Editor of the Commentaries on World Trade Law, 2nd. ed.) and co-chairs the Interest Group on International Economic Law of ESIL. He freuqently advises EU, national governments, IOs and NGOs and is listed as a person suitable as arbitrator/ TSD expert for dispute settlement under EU trade and investment agreements.
Jasem Tarawneh
Lecturer in Commercial & Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary - London University
Expert in: Trade, investment, intellectual property, dispute resolution, law and economics, impact assessment, health, services, trade negotiations.
Dr Jasem Tarawneh is a Lecturer in Commercial & Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, London University. Jasem worked for a number of years as a corporate lawyer and legal advisor in Europe and Middle East before joining academia. He currently teaches International Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property Law. His main areas of research are Law and Economics, Intellectual Property Law and in a global context as well as Alternative Dispute Settlement Mechanisms with an emphasis on International Arbitration and Artificial Intelligence. Jasem has a number of publications in those areas of the law and his latest project is a book that primarily focuses on Trade Marks and their impact on market access, regulation and innovation. Dr Tarawneh worked and continues to work with a number of distinguished international organisations. He currently holds the position of a Legal Academic Associate at Kings Chambers. Jasem is also the co-principal investigator on a number of projects focused on the automation and commercialisation of legal services, as well as the international framework for trade and investment.
Anne Thies
Senior Lecturer in International and European Law, University of Glasgow
Expert in: International trade law, WTO law, European Union law, EU external relations law, trade and gender, international dispute settlement
Anne Thies is Senior Lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching spans EU and international law, with a particular focus on international trade law, EU external relations law and international dispute settlement. She has published on issues such as the effects of WTO law in the EU legal order, trade and gender, and the role of EU principles, values and objectives in the legal framework for EU external action, including trade policy and agreements. Anne is a qualified lawyer in Germany, holds an LLM from the University of London (LSE) and a Dr. iur. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
Silke Trommer
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Public Policy, University of Manchester
Expert in: International political economy of trade, gender and trade, trade and development, trade and civil society, trade negotiations, trade governance
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.
Pratyush Nath Upreti
Reader in Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Expert in: Intellectual property law, international investment law, free trade agreements, industrial policy, law and development, digital economy, food and agriculture
Pratyush Nath Upreti is Reader in Law at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. He specializes in the intersection of intellectual property (IP), international trade, and investment law. Pratyush’s current research interests are in the area of intellectual property chapters in free trade agreements, dispute settlement and sustainable development. He has acted as a consultant in private sector development projects focusing on IP, trade, and investment for the European Union-funded projects. He has also represented an international organization at the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). He also serves as an expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Anne van Aaken
Professor of Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of Hamburg
Expert in: Trade and Sustainability; Business and Human Rights; Behavioral Treaty Drafting Options
Dr Anne van Aaken is Chair for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of Hamburg (2018-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Professor). Previously, she was professor at St. Gallen University and Senior Researcher at two Max Planck Institutes. Anne was Vice-President of ESIL and chaired the EUI Research Council. She taught in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, is general editor of JIDS and is/was a member of the editorial boards of AJIL, EJIL, International Theory and JIEL. She has been consultant for the IBRD, OECD, UNCTAD and the UN. Her over 100 publications concentrate on international law with a special focus on economic law, business and human rights, behavioural economics & psychology, and legal theory.
Harro van Asselt
Hatton Professor of Climate Law, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Expert in: Trade and environment, climate change, fossil fuel subsidies
Dr Harro van Asselt is Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the Department of Land Economy and Fellow with Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, Visiting Research Fellow with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He has more than 20 years of research experience, and is an expert on interactions between international climate and trade policy. Harro has also worked at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of Oxford, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is Editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL).
Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg
Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
Expert in: Foreign investment, dispute settlement, business and human rights, regulation of corporations, treaty law, impact assessments, labour rights
Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg’s research, for which she received the 2019 SNIS Award, focuses on regulation of collective non-state entities, such as corporations, through international law. This work engages issues of international investment law, business and human rights, international labor law, law on environmental liability, law of the sea, international institutional law and international dispute settlement. She has particular expertise in investor and employer obligations under international treaties and in procedural aspects of investment disputes. Dr Van der Ploeg is also a dual-qualified attorney-at-law who has advised States and private parties on a wide range of public international law and international dispute settlement matters.
Anna Ventouratou
Lecturer in International Trade Law, University of Sheffield
Expert in: Trade Restrictions on Non-Economic Grounds incl. Trade Sanctions, Gender and Trade, Trade in Services, Dispute Settlement
Anna is a Lecturer in International Trade Law at the University of Sheffield. She has studied law at the University of Oxford (DPhil; MPhil; MJur), the University of Athens (LLM in Public International Law; LLB), and Columbia Law School (Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Scholar), and she is admitted to practice law in Greece. Before joining Sheffield, she taught Public International Law as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and tutor in law at the University of Oxford, and she worked as a researcher on several projects relating to diverse areas of public international law. She completed her legal traineeship at a leading criminal law firm in Athens, Greece and she worked as a trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission (CFSP and external relations team). Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford was on 'General Defences in International Adjudication' and explored the applicability of the defences enshrined in Part I, Chapter V of the Articles of the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts in disputes before the ICJ, the WTO dispute settlement system, and investment arbitral tribunals. Her current research projects focus on the legality of economic sanctions and on issues relating to gender and trade.
Geraldo Vidigal
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Expert in: WTO Law, Regional Trade Agreements, Dispute Settlement, Trade and Sustainable Development, Trade and Environment, Trade and Climate, Trade and Security, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Trade and Domestic Regulation, Regulatory Equivalence, Food and Animal Trade, Mercosur, EU-Mercosur Trade, International Standardization, Services Trade, Trade and Human Rights, Trade Governance, Investment Governance
Geraldo Vidigal is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates the LL.M. in International Trade and Investment Law. He is the Managing Editor of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer), Theme Developer for International Economic Law at Oxford International Organizations, and a member of the WTO's roster of dispute settlement panelists. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Master’s in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School and a Bachelor’s in Law from the University of São Paulo.
Markus Wagner
Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law and Policy Centre, University of Wollongong
Expert in: International trade law, public health, sustainable food systems, environment, national security, weaponised trade, regional trade agreements, international investment law, dispute settlement
Markus Wagner is Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong. He joined the School of Law in 2018 from Warwick Law School, and has previously worked at the University of Miami.
He is the immediate past Executive Vice-President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), has advised governments, international organisations and the private sector and has presented at numerous academic and professional conferences. He has published widely at the intersection of law and geopolitics, on weaponisation of trade relations, trade and investment law and international dispute settlement. He has held visiting professor positions at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg and the law faculties at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the University of Leipzig, the University of Hamburg and the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
Michael Waibel
Professor of International Law, University of Vienna
Expert in: Foreign investment, definition of investment, portfolio investment, international monetary law, International Monetary Fund, sovereign debt, financial services, dispute settlement and arbitration, treaty interpretation
Michael Waibel is a professor of international law at the University of Vienna. His teaching and writing focus on international law, international economic law, sovereign debt and international dispute settlement. He is an Editor of the ICSID Reports and the Journal of International Economic Law. Previously, he taught for a decade at the University of Cambridge, und was from 2015-2019 co-deputy director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Director of Studies at Jesus College.
Zheng Wang
Professor of International Economics, University of Dundee
Expert in: Political economy of trade and policy, institutional economics, migration, innovation, media economics, the economies of the UK and China, policy evaluation
Zheng Wang is Chair Professor of International Economics at the University of Dundee and an external fellow at the research centre on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham. His research focuses on international trade, political economy, and institutional economics. His most recent interest is in examining how geopolitical tensions and media markets influence policy by shaping consumer perceptions. His work appears in leading journals and has been featured in Nature and the Financial Times. He serves on the editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and holds dual PhDs in economics from the University of Nottingham and Zhejiang University.
Rebecca Wilde
Reader, Head of Business Innovation, Supply Chain and Trade, Warwick University (WMG)
Expert in: Environment; Impact Assessment; Trade facilitation; Trade negotiations; Labour mobility, Supply Chain Management
Rebecca is currently head of the International Business and Trade discipline group at Warwick University (WMG). As an economist, her teaching and research interests lie in the field of International Economics and Trade with a keen focus on trade policy and trade agreements; trade engagement and barriers; and international labour mobility. Rebecca is also an academic advisor for the UK Department of International Trade's Thematic Working Groups, and a member of the Institute of Export and International Trade.
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Lisa Wilson [Short]
Professor Extraordinaire, Innovation, Digital Technology & Entrepreneurship
Expert in: Ecosystems, Smart Legal Contracts, Blockchain, AI & Data, Fintech, SMEs, Education
Professor Lisa Short is internationally renowned for a track record that engages and converges the best people, businesses, and stakeholders [both public and private] to design, develop and deploy 'end-to-end' digital technology led ecosystems that are commercially astute, resilient, impact driven, secure, trusted and as innovative solutions crucial for global economic development.
L Alan Winters
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Expert in: UK trade policy, trade and development, world trading system, regional trading agreements, services
L Alan Winters is Professor of Economics in the University of Sussex. He was the Founding Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory. He was Chief Economist DFID (2008-11), Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank (2004-07) and editor of The World Trade Review (2009-20). L Alan Winters is a leading specialist on the empirical and policy analysis of international trade, including that of Europe and of developing countries. He has published over two hundred and fifty articles and chapters and over thirty books. His current work is mostly devoted to research and policy analysis on UK trade policy following Brexit.
Haeyeon (Hailey) Yoon
Trade Economist
Expert in: Export credit support, Foreign direct investment, Multinational enterprises
As a trade economist, I am interested in questions about trade policy effects and firm behaviour in globalization. I conduct data-driven research with policy impact. One of my research projects is to find the optimal policy allocation rule to maximize trade policy objectives with limited funds. Another line of my research concerns the relationship between trade and the environment. Related projects are about the effect of environmental regulation on foreign direct investment and convergence of environmental regulations through trade. I work as a lecturer of Economics at University of Bristol and a senior researcher at Nam Duck-Woo Economics Research Institute.
Tietie “Frank” Zhang
Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Sheffield School of Law
Expert in: International arbitration, Chinese law, dispute settlement
Dr Zhang is a Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law. He received his first law degree from Peking University Law School, and later earned his doctorate from Cornell University Law School. His main teaching and research areas include international arbitration and the Chinese legal system. Dr Zhang is qualified to practice law in China and New York State. Before joining academia, he worked in a leading Chinese law firm with a focus on international dispute resolution.
Katja Ziegler
Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of Leiceste
Expert in: EU law, Autonomy of the EU legal order, EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, Brexit, human rights, Parliamentary scrutiny of agreements
Katja Ziegler is the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester and Co-Director of the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) . She is a qualified Rechtsanwältin and member of the Düsseldorf Bar, Germany. Her research spans international, European and comparative law, focusing on the interaction of legal orders; the autonomy of the EU legal order; Brexit and EU-UK relations; human rights; the balancing of economic/trade rules and non-economic interests; and comparative and EU foreign relations law. She is a member of the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. Previously, she researched and taught for a decade at the University of Oxford where she also was a Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Fellow of St Hilda’s College. She practiced law in the Brussels office of the international law firm Hengeler Mueller before returning to academia. In 2021-22 she has been seconded to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office under a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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