Special Lecture by WTO Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard
In March 2025, Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard, World Trade Organization (WTO), will be invited to Japan by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
The Japan Association of International Economic Law (JAIEL) and the MOFA are pleased to co-host a special lecture by DDG Ellard at Waseda University. Please find below for details.
How does the WTO contribute to maintaining and expanding the rules-based free and fair economic order? What challenges is the WTO facing in the increasingly uncertain international environment? DDG Ellard addresses these questions.
DATE: Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:00
VENUE: Waseda University, Waseda Campus, Building N.14, 8th Floor, Room 801
https://waseda.app.box.com/s/sr4l9i4ub4ai87fox7akj19a0umwad65
※Please use the elevators at the southeast corner of the building to go to the venue. The elevator at the northeast corner is reserved for staff members and people with special needs. The escalators only go up to the 6th floor.
Language: English (no translation)
Audience: Researchers and students are all welcome.
Admission: Free. No registration is required.
Contact: Japan Association of International Economic Law
conference<at>jaiel.or.jp ※Please change <at> to @.
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Ms Angela Paolini Ellard has served as WTO Deputy Director-General since June 2021. She is responsible for dispute settlement/reform, trade remedies, market access/trade facilitation, and ongoing negotiations on fisheries subsidies. She supervised the Secretariat’s facilitation of the successful conclusion of the 2012 Fisheries Subsidies Agreement. She also oversees the WTO budget. Previously, DDG Ellard had a distinguished 26-year career as Majority and Minority Chief Trade Counsel in the U.S. Congress. She achieved significant bipartisan trade policy outcomes with Congressional leaders and five Presidential administrations. She practiced law, focusing on trade litigation, policy, and legislation. She is renowned for her expertise in trade and international economic policy, resolving trade barriers, and negotiating outcomes. She earned her J.D. cum laude/Tulane Law School, M.A. in Public Policy/Tulane, and B.A. summa cum laude/Tulane’s Newcomb College.
She speaks and lectures worldwide and has received numerous awards for her contributions to trade law and policy.
Source:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/dg_e/ddgs_e.htm
