PETER ALLGEIER

Peter Allgeier served as President of the Coalition of Service Industries (CSI) from September 2012 until March 2016. CSI is the association representing the international trade and investment interests of the American service economy. Its membership includes major international companies from the banking, insurance, telecommunications, information technology, express delivery, audiovisual, energy services, and other service industries. From 2009 to 2012, Ambassador Allgeier was President of C&M International, a trade consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He previously served as Deputy US Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Before his appointment as Deputy USTR in 2001, Ambassador Allgeier served in a series of senior positions: Assistant USTR for Asia and the Pacific; Assistant USTR for Europe and the Mediterranean; and Associate US Trade Representative for the Western Hemisphere. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and the Woodrow Wilson Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has a PhD in International Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and an AB in International Relations from Brown University.

ARTHUR E. APPLETON

Arthur E. Appleton, JD, PhD is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers (www.appletonluff.com) a boutique international trade, investment and arbitration firm with offices in Brussels, Geneva, Kampala, Singapore, Warsaw and Washington, DC. His practice focuses on trade, investment and arbitration matters. He also serves as a Senior Trade and Investment Consultant for the World Bank for whom he has worked recently on projects in Kazakhstan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. Dr Appleton is an Adjunct Professor of International Trade Law at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS - Europe). In addition, he teaches at the World Trade Institute (University of Bern) where he serves on the Board, in the International Economic Law and Policy Programme (University of Barcelona), and in various programmes at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). He is regularly invited to lecture on international trade and investment matters at conferences and universities throughout the world. Arthur has published two books and approximately 40 articles on trade and arbitration issues, including “The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis” (with Patrick Macrory and Michael Plummer as co-editors).

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JUDAH J. ARIEL

Judah Ariel is in an international trade lawyer in Washington, DC. Judah previously worked as an associate at Sidley Austin LLP, and as an international trade and foreign policy advisor in the US House of Representatives. Judah has represented clients in disputes before the World Trade Organization, as well as in investment treaty arbitrations. His WTO experience includes original and compliance proceedings involving the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement, the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, and the General Agreement on Trade in Services. Judah has also advised governments, nongovernmental organizations, trade associations, and companies on a broad range of international legal and policy issues, such as trade negotiations, government procurement laws, pharmaceutical regulation, and climate change. As the senior legislative assistant to Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon), Judah helped craft and pass legislation concerning illegal logging and associated trade, US development assistance, and refugee policy, as well as negotiate the environmental provisions of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. Judah received his JD from New York University School of Law, and a BA in Sociology from Brandeis University.

STEWART BAKER

Stewart Baker is a partner in the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC. From 2005 to 2009, he was the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. His law practice covers cybersecurity, data protection, homeland security, and travel and foreign investment regulation. Mr Baker has been General Counsel of the National Security Agency and General Counsel of the commission that investigated WMD intelligence failures prior to the Iraq war. He is the author of Skating on Stilts, a book on terrorism, cybersecurity and other technology issues; he blogs about such topics on www.skatingonstilts. com. He also hosts the weekly Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast.

OLIVIA BURZYNSKA-HERNANDEZ

Ms Burzynska-Hernandez worked as a staff assistant in the US Senate and for the Polish American Congress in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in International Affairs from the Robert Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and an MA in International Affairs with a focus in Conflict and Conflict Resolution from George Washington University.

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DANIEL CANNISTRA

Dan Cannistra is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on legislative, executive and regulatory representation of domestic and international clients on a broad spectrum of international trade matters. Dan has represented domestic and foreign companies in over 75 US antidumping and countervailing duty cases before the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission under the Tariff Act of 1930. Many of these matters involved appeals to the US Court of International Trade, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, bi-national panels under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and dispute settlement proceedings before the World Trade Organization (WTO). Dan has also represented clients in anti-dumping proceedings in the European Union, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, Thailand, Singapore, Guatemala and Taiwan. Dan’s government appointments include service to the US Trade Representative on the roster of international trade practitioners to resolve anti-dumping disputes involving NAFTA members. For the European Commission, Dan provided advice and training on international trade and anti-dumping methodology and practice. In addition, Dan has served as an international trade consultant to the governments of Guatemala and Singapore.

PEGGY CLARKE

Peggy A. Clarke is the principal of the Law Offices of Peggy A. Clarke. With over 30 years experience in this practice area, Ms Clarke specialises in trade remedy and market access disputes, representing importers, exporters, domestic producers and governments. Ms Clarke also teaches US Trade Remedy Law at The George Washington University School of Law. Prior to entering private practice, Ms Clarke worked for the US Department of Commerce, Office of Enforcement & Compliance. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center, her Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, and her Bachelor of Arts Degree from The George Washington University.

DOMINIC COPPENS

Sidley Austin LLP’s associate Dominic Coppens advises governments and private stakeholders on international trade matters, with a focus on dispute settlement under the auspices of the WTO. Prior to joining Sidley, Dominic was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for International Law of the University of Leuven, Belgium. In his research, he focused on international trade law, with a particular interest in development issues and WTO subsidy disciplines. Dominic authored the book “WTO Disciplines on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures: Balancing Policy Space and Legal Constraints” (Cambridge University Press, 2014, 646 pp.). Dominic also served as an intern and Junior Legal Officer at the WTO’s Legal Affairs Division, where he worked on WTO disputes. Dominic has taught International Economic Law at the University of Kent in Brussels, regularly speaks at international conferences, and publishes on various aspects of international trade law in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is a Senior Member of the Leuven

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NEIL R. ELLIS

Neil R. Ellis is a partner in Sidley Austin LLP’s Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice in the areas of international trade regulation and antitrust. He has represented foreign and domestic companies, manufacturers, exporters and importers before the US Department of Commerce, the US International Trade Commission and the federal courts in import regulatory proceedings. For over 30 years he has represented clients in some of the most complex and controversial anti-dumping, countervailing duty, and safeguards cases. Neil also has extensive experience advising governments and companies on the use of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization to resolve trade disputes, particularly in the areas of anti-dumping and countervailing duties. He has participated in all stages of WTO litigation, including consultations, panel and Appellate Body proceedings, and compliance proceedings and arbitrations.In the antitrust area, Neil has advised a range of clients, including multi-national corporations and trade associations, regarding compliance with federal antitrust rules, and has advised US and foreign companies in the federal merger review process. He has also represented companies involved in civil investigations by the US Department of Justice and in federal and state private antitrust litigation.

TODD FRIEDBACHER

Sidley Austin LLP’s partner Todd J. Friedbacher helps clients manage the risk of doing business across borders by leveraging the powerful market access and enforcement tools provided by the WTO treaty and the hundreds of other bilateral and regional trade agreements in place worldwide. Todd has helped clients successfully address critical trade and regulatory barriers impacting their ability to move, sell and protect goods, services and intellectual property across borders. Todd co-founded Sidley’s Geneva office in 2000, and in 2015, was elected to Sidley’s Executive Committee. He is a recognised leader in international trade and WTO law, having represented clients in more than 50 distinct dispute settlement proceedings before the WTO in his 20 years of practice. He has represented commercial stakeholders and governments, complainants, respondents and third parties in all phases of WTO dispute settlement, including pre-dispute consultations and formulation of litigation strategies, original and compliance proceedings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body, and retaliation proceedings before WTO arbitrators. Todd has also assisted clients in high-stakes negotiations on changes to international trade and investment rules. He provides advice and support to stakeholders in WTO accession negotiations, as well as in the negotiation of bilateral and regional trade agreements.

SPENCER S. GRIFFITH

Spencer S. Griffith is a partner in the international trade practice of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and previously served as partner-in-charge of the firm’s office in Beijing, China. Mr Griffith focuses on international trade and general litigation matters, including WTO issues, countervailing duty cases, anti-dumping cases, trade policy, arbitrations and antitrust counselling and litigation. He has handled a variety of complex trade cases before the US Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission, the Office of the US Trade Representative and the Court of International Trade. He also has handled numerous WTO disputes for government clients. Mr Griffith has advised numerous clients in Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and other countries over the years. He practices both in China and in Washington, DC. He has represented the government of British Columbia in the long-standing lumber dispute. He has represented clients in numerous other industries including steel, semiconductors and cement.

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GARY HORLICK

Gary Horlick is an international trade attorney based in Washington, DC. He is listed by Euromoney/Institutional Investor and Who’s Who Legal as one of the world’s highest-ranked international trade lawyers, and is ranked in the top tier by Chambers. Horlick is former international trade counsel with the US Senate Finance Committee, and also served at head of Import Administration at the Department of Commerce, where he was responsible for all US anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases, Foreign Trade Zones, Special Import Progress, and the negotiation of the US-EU steel agreement. Also, Horlick has served as chairman of WTO and Mercosur panels, and has litigated cases in US courts, GATT and WTO tribunals, NAFTA tribunals, and anti-dumping/countervailing duty/safeguard cases in 17 countries. During his career, Horlick has represented US and international businesses, as well as trade associations and governments. Horlick teaches international law at Yale, Georgetown and Berne universities. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School.

CHRISTIAN LAU

Sidley Austin LLP’s associate Christian Lau counsels governments, businesses and trade associations on all aspects of international trade law, with a particular focus on WTO and EU law issues. His practice focuses on WTO dispute settlement, from developing a case, to litigating it through the panel and appeal phase, to securing effective implementation. In substantive terms, Christian’s experience covers prohibited and actionable subsidy disciplines, the GATT, agriculture and intellectual property rights, as well as the disciplines in the SPS and TBT agreements. He has counselled and represented WTO member governments in disputes before WTO panels and the Appellate Body, both in original and in compliance proceedings, as well as before WTO arbitrators determining the amount and form of retaliation rights where compliance is lacking. Christian’s experience includes managing significant aspects of several of the largest and most complex disputes that the WTO has decided thus far. Christian also assists clients in identifying and pursuing their interests in the negotiation of new international trade agreements. Christian joined Sidley as an international trade analyst in 2002, and qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2012.

JEAN-PIERRE LEHMANN

Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Professor Emeritus of International Political Economy at IMD and visiting professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Hong Kong University and at NIIT University in Neemrana, Rajasthan, India. His areas of special interest include globalization, global governance, trade and development, the role of business in reduction of poverty and inequality and the socioeconomic, cultural, and business dynamics of Asia. He acts in various leading capacities in a number of public policy institutes and organizations, as an adviser to governments and corporations, and as a frequent commentator in the international media. He is the author of several books and numerous articles and papers primarily dealing with globalization, modern East Asian history and East Asia and the international political economy. In 1995, Professor Lehmann launched the Evian Group, an international coalition of corporate, government, and opinion leaders, united by a common vision of enhancing global prosperity for the benefit of all by fostering an open, inclusive and equitable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework. The Evian Group has developed as a leading global voice on global trade and investment issues that acts as a forum for dialogue and a birthplace of ideas; it also engages actively in advocacy to counter the forces of protectionism and chauvinism.

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SIMON LESTER

Simon Lester is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on WTO disputes, regional trade agreements, disguised protectionism and the history of international trade law. He is also the founder of the web site WorldTradeLaw.net. Previously, he worked for the trade law practice of a Washington, DC law firm, and also served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization. He has written a number of law journal articles, which have appeared in such publications as the Stanford Journal of International Law, the George Washington International Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade. In addition, he has taught courses on international trade law at American University’s Washington College of Law and the University of Michigan Law School. He has a JD from Harvard Law School.

PATRICK F.J. MACRORY

Patrick F.J. Macrory has practised and taught trade law in Washington, DC, for more than 40 years. Mr Macrory is a former English barrister who was at the firm of Arnold & Porter for 22 years, 15 as a partner. From 1990 to 1997 he was a senior partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and in 1997 he became a senior consultant (part-time) to that firm. His practice was focused on the field of trade remedies and customs law. He received his BA in 1962 and his MA in 1964 from Oxford University. He practiced as a barrister in London before moving to the United States in 1968. He received his LLM from George Washington University in 1971. He is Director of the International Trade Law Center at the International Law Institute, Washington, DC and a partner in the law firm of Appleton Luff, with offices in Geneva, Brussels, Washington, DC, Singapore, Warsaw and Kampala. Mr Macrory was Co-Chairman of the International Trade Committee of the American Bar Association from 1983 to 1984. He has taught trade law at universities in London, Washington, DC, and Tokyo. Since 2002 he has several times a year run a course that he designed on trade law for the US Foreign Service Institute. Mr Macrory has written and spoken extensively on international trade law subjects. He was Editor-in-Chief of the three-volume, The World Trade Organization – Legal, Economic, and Political Analysis (with Arthur Appleton and Michael Plummer as co-editors), described by one reviewer as “the standard reference tool for trade experts and professionals”.

IAIN MACVAY

Iain MacVay is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Trade Practice. He counsels clients on EU and international trade and investment law, including WTO disputes and negotiation of trade agreements. Brexit and its impact on UK and EU companies and their supply chains is now a significant part of Iain’s practice. Iain also advises on EU law, including compliance with EU rules on export controls, sanctions, customs, anti-dumping and anti-subsidy actions. Iain represents clients before the EU institutions, especially the Commission, and Member State authorities as well as the WTO and other international institutions.

INU MANAK

Inu Manak is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at Georgetown University, Department of Government. She specializes in international political economy, with an emphasis on trade, investment and development. She is also a Fellow with TradeLab, a Geneva-based NGO that assists smaller stakeholders to reap the full development benefits of global trade and investment rules through pro-bono legal clinics and supervised practice.

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ANTHONY RAPA

Anthony Rapa is of counsel in Steptoe & Johnson’s Washington, DC office, where he is a member of the International Regulation & Compliance Group. His practice focuses on economic sanctions and export controls. Mr Rapa’s sanctions practice includes matters arising under US, EU, and UK economic sanctions regimes, including sanctions related to Iran and Russia. He has extensive experience with counselling clients on complex cross-border transactions, conducting global internal investigations, development of corporate sanctions compliance policies, conducting regulatory due diligence in support of international transactions, and submission of voluntary disclosures and license applications to the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Mr Rapa’s international regulatory compliance practice further includes matters arising under the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as similar EU and UK regulatory regimes. Mr Rapa has assisted clients in the energy, financial, and defence industries, and previously was seconded to a large international bank. He previously practiced in Steptoe’s London office, and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.

ERIC M. SOLOVY

Sidley Austin LLP’s partner Eric M. Solovy counsels companies, trade associations and governments on, and litigates disputes over, international trade and intellectual property matters. Eric focuses on litigation before the WTO, having been at the centre of some of the most complex and contentious disputes in its history. In the intellectual property area, he represents clients in litigation before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in complex patent disputes. Eric combines his experience in both international trade and intellectual property law, and frequently counsels, writes, and lectures on the international trade law and policy aspects of intellectual property protection, including with respect to intellectual property protection in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) and various Free Trade Agreements. Eric has represented governments and counselled interested private parties at every level of dispute settlement proceedings at the WTO, presenting written and oral arguments before WTO panels and the Appellate Body on multiple occasions. He has also participated in ICSID arbitration on behalf of private investors. Before joining Sidley, Eric was a law clerk to the Honourable Pauline Newman of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

MARGARET SPICER

Margaret is an associate at White & Case in Washington, DC, specialising in international trade. In addition to representing companies and governments in trade remedy proceedings before the US Department of Commerce and other federal agencies, she also works on customs and sanctions matters. Prior to joining White & Case, Margaret worked in the Washington, DC office of the Florida Governor, where she specialised in international trade policy and federal relations.

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PETER TREPTE

Peter Trepte is a practicing barrister with Littleton Chambers in London and of Counsel to Grayston & Company in Brussels. He is a Senior Fellow in Public Procurement Law at the University of Nottingham and Head of the Unit on Corruption and Public Procurement. In private practice, he concentrates on public procurement and competition law and, in the case of regulated procurement, he advises and represents public and private sector clients on issues of EC procurement rules as well as on the application of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and the effect on the procurement rules of the EC’s preferential trade arrangements. At the international level, he has extensive and wide geographical experience in public procurement reform. He was one of three dispute panellists in the procurement dispute between the US and South Korea under the WTO’s Government Procurement Agreement. Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. He has lectured and published widely on public procurement issues and is the author of Public Procurement in the EU, 2nd edition (OUP, 2007) and Regulating Procurement (OUP, 2004).

COLETTE VAN DER VEN

As an associate at Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva, Colette van der Ven counsels and represents clients on all aspects of international trade law with a particular focus on WTO law and WTO dispute settlement. Specifically, Colette’s practice focuses on disputes involving agriculture-related measures subject to the SPS Agreement and the Agreement on Agriculture. As the Geneva Coordinator, and previously interim director of Sidley’s Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Programme, Colette is actively involved in advising government officials, entrepreneurs, and small enterprises in Africa on how to overcome market access barriers. Colette holds a joint JD/MPP from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, respectively, and an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College.