The Future of EU Trade Policy: Objectives and Challenges ahead скачать в хорошем качестве

The Future of EU Trade Policy: Objectives and Challenges ahead

Join us in this discussion with the Director of Multilateral Affairs in DG TRADE at the European Commission, Mr. Ignacio Garcia Bercero, and the Special Advisor to HR/VP Josep Borrell and Senior Analyst of Elcano Royal Institute (ranked 2nd best Think Tank in Western Europe), Dr. Federico Steinberg. Our guests will be speaking on the EU’s objectives to adapt and reorient its trade policy to address the challenges shaping the world today. Faced with an increasingly volatile international system, sustained US-China competition, growing unilateralism and geoeconomic tensions, as well as the imminent menace of climate change, the EU needs to assert itself if it wants to safeguard its influence in the world and ensure it finds itself on the good path to achieve its ambitions to support a green, digital economy and a more fair, sustainable globalization based on rules and a revitalization of multilateralism and of the WTO. The event will be chaired by LSE Assistant Professor in International Political Economy, Dr Robert Basedow, and will be open to questions from the audience. More on the Speakers: Mr. Ignacio Garcia Bercero is director of Multilateral Affairs, Strategy, Analysis, Evaluation at the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG TRADE). He was Chief Negotiator for the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and had coordinated the EU-US High Level Working Group on Growth and Jobs. In the past he was coordinator of the EU WTO policy, leading negotiations on trade and competition and was posted in the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York to work on WTO Dispute Settlement and Trade Barrier Regulations. He also worked in trade-related aspects of Sustainable Development as well as bilateral trade relations, acting as Chief Negotiator for the bilateral negotiating process with South Korea and India. Dr. Federico Steinberg, LSE alumnus, is Special Advisor to EU High Representative and Vice President Josep Borrell, Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute and Economics Professor at Madrid’s Universidad Autónoma. In the past he worked in various development projects for the World Bank in Washington DC, Ghana and Bolivia, as well as at the Executive Office of the Secretary General at the United Nations headquarters in New York. He has extensively published about the new dynamics of international trade and rise of protectionism, the current global geoeconomics balance of power and the roots and backlash against globalization and liberal world order, various aspects of global economic governance, the eurozone crisis and the role of the euro.