Penulis: Pierre Sauve

Pierre Sauvé Pierre Sauvé serves as a Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank Group. Previously, he served as Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships at the University of Bern”s World Trade Institute (WTI), in Switzerland. He holds visiting professor appointments at the WTI and at the University of Barcelona. He taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003-05. He served as a senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993-2002, a period during which he also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1998-2000). He served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade”s Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations (1991-93). He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) and of the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland (1987-88). Mr. Sauvé was educated in economics and international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in Canada and at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the areas of services trade, the regulation of foreign direct investment and comparative regional integration, issues on which he has published extensively. His latest book, co-edited with Martin Roy and entitled “Research Handbook on Trade in Services”, was published by Edgar Elgar 2016.   Rodrigo Polanco Rodrigo is a senior lecturer and researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luzern and a visiting professor at the University of Chile, where he also served as an assistant professor and director of international relations of the Faculty of Law. Rodrigo is a published scholar and legal practitioner with experience in both the public and private sectors. His areas of specialization are international economic law, investment law, international trade law and international environmental law, with numerous specialized publications. He holds a Bachelor and a Master of Laws from Universidad de Chile School of Law, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University (NYU) School of Law, and a Ph D from the University of Bern, specialised in international investment law. Rodrigo is a visiting professor at Universidad Externado Colombia and member of the editorial team of their Law and Economy Review (Contexto), and a visiting professor and research external evaluator of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He is also a co-founder of Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA) a Chilean non-profit environmental organisation where he serves as director of their environmental law journal (Justicia Ambiental). Jose Manuel Alvarez-Zárate Jose Manuel Alvarez-Zárate is a professor at Externado University of Colombia in the Law and Economics Department where he runs the International Economic Law (IEL)  program. He holds a degree in Administrative Law and a Ph. D. He has been visiting scholar at American University Washington College of Law, Fundación Getulio Vargas, Río de Janeiro, Brazil, and Visiting Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London. He has been teaching and practicing in the fields of trade, investment, administrative regulatory law and dispute settlement for more than thirty years and has been widely published. His legal experience includes consultancy for private and public entities in trade negotiations and international business, as well as acting as counsel before administrative courts, local and international arbitration panels and the Andean Tribunal.