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Emma Aisbett

Associate Professor, School of Law, Australian National University

Per Andersson

Head of Secretariat, Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT)

Sumbue Antas

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva 

Bernardo Arce Fernandez

Research Officer, ODI Global

Imelda Bacudo

Manager, ASEAN Climate Resilience Network

Richard Baron

Director of the Trade Programme, European Climate Foundation (ECF)

Diana Barrowclough

Research Professor of Financing Sustainable Development, SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance

Yuvan A. Beejadhur

Senior Adviser to the Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Christophe Bellmann

Head of Policy Analysis and Strategy, Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS)

Ellie Belton

Senior Policy Advisor, Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G)

Ujal Singh Bhatia

Former WTO Appellate Body Member, Former Ambassador of India to the WTO

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Kimberley Botwright

Deputy Head, Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics, Head, Responsible Trade & Governance, World Economic Forum

Clara Brandi

Head of Programme, Transformation of Economic and Social Systems, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Bruce Byiers

Associate Director, Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Development Cluster, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Sven Sylvain Callebaut

Senior Trade Policy Consultant, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Chantal Line Carpentier

Head, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Umberto Celli Junior

Professor, Ribeirão Preto Law Faculty, University of São Paulo

Elena Cima

Senior Lecturer, International Environmental Law, University of Geneva 

Dominic Coppens

Professor of International Economic Law, Maastricht University

Aaron Cosbey

Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Thomas Cottier

Professor Emeritus of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern

Anthony Cox

Senior Policy Advisor, Ecologic Institute

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck

Executive Director and Founder, Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS)

Daniel C. Esty

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of the Environment and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School

Angela Francis

Director of Policy Solutions, WWF-UK

Clovis Freire

Chief, Commodities Research and Analysis Section, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Henry Gao

Professor of Law, Singapore Management University

Arunabha Ghosh

Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

Thomas Hale

Professor of Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Anne Hammill

Associate Vice-President, Resilience, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Sandra Hanni

Global Policy Lead for Trade and Climate, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Yasmin Ismail

Senior Policy Advisor, Trade, Climate, and Sustainable Development, Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS)

Lee Ann Jackson

Head of Programmes, Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS)

Stephen Karingi

Director, Regional Integration and Trade, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Poorva Karkare

Policy Officer, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

Atul Kaushik

Fellow, Global Development Centre, Center of Geoeconomics for the Global South (COGGS)

Jodie Keane

Principal Research Fellow, ODI Global

Fahmida Khatun

Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Marit Y. Kitaw

Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Nagesh Kumar

Director, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)

David Laborde

Director of Agrifood Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization on the United Nations (FAO)

Aik Hoe Lim

Director, Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Nicolas Lockhart

Partner, Sidley Austin

João Aguiar Machado

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the WTO

Tsotetsi Makong

Director Coordination and Programmes, AfCFTA Secretariat

Gabrielle Marceau

Honorary Professor of International Public Law and International Organization Law, University of Geneva

Andrei Marcu

Executive Director, Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)

Kennedy Mbeva

Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge

Amina Mohamed

Chairperson, Trade Negotiations and Investment Forum, former Cabinet Secretary (Minister) for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Kenya

Johann Mulder

Chief, Sustainable Trade Unit, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Anis Nassar

Lead, Circular Economy Innovation and Business Engagement, World Economic Forum

James J. Nedumpara

Professor and Head of the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Carlijn Nouwen

Co-Founder, Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A)

Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other Economic Organizations in Geneva

Valeria Piñeiro

Director Technical Cooperation, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

Daudi Sumba

Chief Conservation Officer, WWF International

Trevor Sutton

Senior Research Associate, Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy

Alice Tipping

Director, Trade and Sustainable Development, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Elisa Tonda

Chief, Resources and Markets Branch, Industry and Economy Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Hari Tulsidas

Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

David Unterhalter

Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa; Professor of Law, University of Cape Town

Kurt Van Dender

Acting Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Brendan Vickers

Policy Director, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), United Kingdom

Christina Voigt

Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law

Erika Watanabe Patriota

Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the WTO

Matthew Wilson

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Coordinator of the WTO Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group

Colette van der Ven

Founder and Director, Tulip Consulting

Vicente Paolo Yu

Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law

Nimrod Zalk

Chief Research Officer, Climate and Development, University of Cape Town

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