Course Mentors

Dr. Arthur E. Appleton, Appleton Luff - International Lawyers

Dr. Appleton is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers (www.appletonluff.com) a boutique international trade and arbitration firm with offices in Brussels, Geneva, Singapore, Warsaw and Washington, D.C. Dr. Appleton has more than 20 years of experience in the field of international trade (GATT/WTO) law dating back to the late 1980s when he advised a prominent Asian country during the Uruguay Round negotiations. He works with businesses, sovereign States, international organizations and non-governmental organizations on international trade and arbitration matters and has appeared as lead counsel before the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He has published two books and more than 30 articles on trade and arbitration issues, and is a co-editor (with Patrick Macrory and Michael Plummer) of “The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis”, a multi-volume work that appeared in spring 2005. Dr. Appleton serves on the Board of Directors of the World Trade Institute, and on the Steering Committee of the International Trade Law Center of the International Law Institute (Washington, D.C.). He is also on the Board of the International Business Lawyers Association (Geneva), and the Editorial Board of Legal Issues of Economic Integration. Dr. Appleton has been recognized in the International Who’s Who of Trade and Customs Lawyers since the year 2000. Prior to forming Appleton Luff, Dr. Appleton was Counsel with White & Case and Of Counsel with Lalive & Partners.

Prof. Thomas Cottier, University of Bern

Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law. He directs the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence) located at the WTI. He is an associate editor of several journals. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and also currently teaches at the Europa Institut Saarbrücken, Germany, and at Wuhan University, China. He was a member of the Swiss National Research Council from 1997-2004 and served on the board of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) Rome during the same period. He served the Baker & McKenzie law firm as Of Counsel from 1998 to 2005.

Simon J. Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In addition to his research on the determinants of international commercial flows, Professor Evenett is particularly interested in the relationships between international trade policy, national competition law and policy, and economic development. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. Professor Evenett has been a (non-resident) Senior Fellow of the Economic Studies Programme in the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Previously, he taught at Oxford University and Rutgers University as well as serving as a World Bank official.
 

Christian Häberli works as a Senior Research Fellow in WTI / NCCR / WP4 on trade, agriculture and development issues. In 1977 he graduated with a Ph.D. on African Investment Law. He also completed studies in development sciences in Geneva (1973-75) and in theology at Bern University (2007-09). His professional career started in 1978 at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with 2 years each in Madagascar and Thailand, followed by 3 years with the Swiss Development Cooperation in Nepal. From 1986 to 2007 he worked at the Swiss Federal Department (Ministry) for Economic Affairs. In the WTO, he chaired the Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session) and served in four dispute settlement panels, namely in EC – Bananas, Japan – Apples, EC – Biotech/GMO and China – Trading Rights.

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer is a SNF professor of international law at the University of Basel and a senior research fellow at the WTI. A native of the USA, Ms. Nadakavukaren Schefer received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. After moving to Switzerland, she received both her Doctorate in Law and her Habilitation from the University of Bern. Currently she is researching the topic of positive duties of states in international law and international economic law. Having written and co-authored on a range of WTO topics, Ms. Nadakavukaren Schefer's main area of interest is the relationship between general international law and WTO law.

Dr. Olga Nartova, World Trade Institute/NCCR

Olga Nartova is a research fellow at the World Trade Institute since 2007. She is a co-leader of Working Package 5 on Trade and Climate Change in Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR Trade Regulation) and prior to this Olga was an acting alternate leader of the research project on Energy in WTO Law. Olga is a qualified lawyer in Russia (2002), she received her law degree from Moscow State Academy of Law. She also obtained a master’s degree in international law and economics (M.I.L.E.) (summa cum laude) from the World Trade Institute in Berne and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics. Olga completed her doctoral thesis on “Energy Services and Competition Policies under WTO Law” at the University of Berne. She is an external consultant at WTI Advisors and International Business & Legal Consultants, and has also been an advisor at the ICTSD. Olga is a co-editor of “International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate Change: World Trade Forum (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009), she has published and lectured on trade and climate change, energy law, and trade law and policy of Eastern Europe.


Prof. Marion Panizzon, University of Bern

Marion Panizzon is assistant professor in international economic law at the University of Berne. Since 2005, she is the Alternate Leader of the NCCR Trade Regulation Services Project (IP8) and since 2007 a Member of the MILE faculty at the WTI. Marion received her bilingual (German/French) law degree from the University of Fribourg and a Masters in Law (LL.M.) from Duke Law School, Durham, NC. After working as a research assistant  for Professor John H. Jackson at Georgetown University Law Center Marion completed her doctoral thesis on 'Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the WTO' (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2006) sponsored by a van Calker scholarship of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne.

Marion is the co-editor of "GATS and the International Regulation of Trade in Services (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008) and Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition, and Sustainable Development (Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor, 2001) . She co-led the international project “Rights to Plant Genetic Resources” sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.  She has done policy-oriented work for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, ICTSD and iDEASCentre. In 2008 Marion spent some time as a visiting scholar at Oxford University's Center on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS). A selection of Marion's publications can be downloaded from SSRN.


Mr. Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute

Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute (WTI), in Berne, Switzerland, where he teaches in the WTI’s MILE programme and directs a Swiss National Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries (2005-9). He is a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, U.K., and also holds a Visiting Professor appointments in the International Relations Department at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium and at the University of Barcelona Law School, whose LLM programme in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) he advises. Since 1999, he has taught in the Academy of International Law’s annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), in Brussels, Belgium, since its launch in October 2006. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), in Paris, France, in 2003–04 and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank since January 2003. From 1998–2000, he taught at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during which period he was also appointed Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C.  He served as Canada’s services negotiator in the North American Free Trade Agreement and was a staff member at the Bank for International Settlements, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the OECD Trade Directorate. In 2007, he was a member of the Warwick Commission on the future of the multilateral trading system. Pierre Sauvé’s research interests focus on the evolution of rule-making for services trade and investment and the impact that regional integration agreements exert on the design and operation of the multilateral trading system.