Alberto Alemanno is a Legal Secretary at the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg where he clerks for Professor Enzo Moavero Milanesi. Before joining the European Courts, he has been teaching assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is also a member of the New York bar and sits in the Executive Committee of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe. He teaches and publishes in the areas of EC and International Trade Law. ,

Bart Driessen is a member of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union. He has also worked as a lawyer in private practice and in the European Commission. He has published widely on both international and European Union law.

Caroline Fournet obtained her Law Degree in 1997 from Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III (France), and in 1998 she obtained a Maîtrise en Droit Public (Mention Bien) from this same University. The same year, having been awarded a grant as an ERASMUS student, she also passed with distinction a Master of International Law from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund (Sweden). Her Master thesis is entitled: “Nuremberg and its Aftermath: Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity – Case Study: France”

Christopher Greenwood, CMG, QC has been Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics since 1996. Between 2004 and 2006 he was Head of the Law Department. He is Joint Editor of the International Law Reports and the author of some 70 other articles.

Conor Gearty is a Barrister and the founding member of Matrix Chambers. He specialises in human rights law and frequent advises to judges, practitioners and public authorities on the implications of the Human Rights Act. His notable cases include Secretary of State for Defence v Rusling (2003), Sengupta v Holmes & Ors (2002), In re S (minors) (2002), and Matthews v Ministry of Defence (2002).

David Nersessian is the Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession and Center for the Study of Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry. He earned his D Phil (PhD) in Law from Oxford University (St. Catherine’s College), where his research concentrated on international criminal law and genocide. He earned his JD magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1995.

Donald Kaniaru is a lawyer and advocate in Kenya. Kaniaru formerly served as the Director of the Division of Environmental Policy and Implementation and the Division on Environmental Conventions during a 28-year career with the United Nations Environment Programme.

Donald Lewis is Director of EAIEL and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on China’s WTO accession, Administrative governance in China and Dynamics of cultural and economic development.

Edward Brans is an Attorney at Pels Rijcken and Droogleever Fortuijn, The Hague; formerly, lecturer in private and environmental law and senior researcher at the law faculty of the Vrije University Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His field of expertise is tort law, in particular environmental liability. His work, research and publications focus on (comparative) tort law, (international) environmental liability, standing and assessment of damages for injury to natural resources. Publications include the prize winning book: Liability for Damage to Natural Resources. Standing, Damage and Damage Assessment (Kluwer Law International, November 2001).

George William Mugwanya is an advocate of Uganda’s Courts of Judicature, and currently a Senior Appeals Counsel at the Office of the Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda, he holds a Ph.D in law from Notre Dame Law School (United States); and LL.M degrees from the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and the University of Pretoria (South Africa).

Geert A. Zonnekeyn, partner with Monard D’Hulst, has been practising WTO law and competition law for more than a decade and is included in the roaster of panellists of the WTO. He is also an academic consultant at the European Institute of the University of Ghent. He has published widely on various subjects and is a regular speaker at conferences.

Gerrit Betlem is Professor of EU Law, University of Southampton, where he teaches European Union law, European private law and international business law courses. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Groningen and obtained his L.L.D. from the University of Utrecht in 1993 for a prize winning thesis Civil Liability for Transfrontier Pollution. His research interests lie in comparative tort law, European private (international) law and the private enforcement of Community law. Website: www.eulaw.soton.ac.uk.

Henry Gao is Deputy Director of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy (EAIEL) Program, the Academic Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Regional Trade Policy Course jointly organized by the WTO and the University of Hong Kong.

Intan Murnira Ramli is a Senior Federal Counsel in the International Trade and Finance Unit, International Affairs Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers of Malaysia. She is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and is also a Certified Mediator.

Jacques Bourgeois holds a Iuris Doctor degree from the University of Gent and studied economics at the University of Louvain and comparative law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was a Jean Monnet professor at the University of Bonn Law School. He has written extensively and lectured in many countries on EC trade law, the GATT/WTO and WTO dispute settlement.

Jaime Granados has been a consultant since 1998 with the Integration and Regional programs Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. co-ordinating the technical support that the IADB provides to the FTAA negotiating process. In 1997-98, he was Director for International Trade Negotiations at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica.

James Crawford is Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge, Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He was a Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1982-1991 where he worked on the recognition of Aboriginal customary laws, foreign state immunity and admiralty jurisdiction.

Jeremy Streatfeild completed a bachelor’s degree in history and economics at Bowdoin College and a Masters in International Law and Economics (MILE) at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Director for the Summer Program on WTO Studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) in Geneva.

Julio Lacarte - Former Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body, Mr. Lacarte has been Ambassador of Uruguay in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, the European Communities, Ecuador, the United States, India, Japan and Thailand. He has also been Permanent Representative of Uruguay before the OAS, GATT, the Cuenca de la Plata Accord, ALADI, and the Geneva-based international organizations twice.

Junji Nakagawa, editor, is Professor of International Economic Law at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. His recent publication include: Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy, London: Routledge, 2006; and Anti-Dumping of China, Tokyo: Japan Export Trade Organization, 2004.

Keisuke Iida is Professor of International Relations at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. He has earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University, and has formerly taught at Princeton University, in New Jersey, USA. His areas of interest include the political economy of international trade and monetary relations, as well as the politics of international organizations.

Mads Andenas is the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (since 2000), General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Oxford University Press), of the European Business Law Review (Kluwer Law International) and is on the editorial boards of some 12 other law journals and book series. His publications include some 40 books.

Marco Slotboom is a partner with the international law firm Simmons & Simmons. He is head of the EU & Competition Law department of the Brussels office and advises governments and industries in issues involving international trade law, competition law and EC State aid law.

Michael Bohlander was a member of the German judiciary from 1991 – 2004. He sat as a civil and criminal trial and appellate judge, and as Vice-President of the Judicial Disciplinary Tribunal of the State of Thuringia, in East Germany. From 1999 until 2001 he served as the senior legal officer of Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He joined the Department of Law at the University of Durham in September 2004. Professor Bohlander is the director of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

Philip Allott is Professor of International Public Law at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College. From 1960 to 1973 he was a Legal Counsellor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was the Legal Adviser, British Military Government, Berlin (1965-8) and, as such, a member of the Higher Executive Authority of Spandau Prison.

Pradeep S Mehta is the founder secretary general of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity & Trust Society, one of the largest consumer groups in India. He serves on several policy making bodies of the Government of India, related to trade, environment and consumer affairs, including the National Advisory Committee on International Trade of the Ministry of Commerce and its working groups.

Robert Howse is an internationally recognized authority on international economic law and is also a specialist in 20th century European legal and political philosophy, particularly the thought of Alexander Kojeve and Leo Strauss. Professor Howse received his B.A. in philosophy and political science with high distinction, as well as an LL.B., with honours, from the University of Toronto, where he was co-editor in chief of the Faculty of Law Review. He also holds an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School.

Roman Grynberg is Department Head and Deputy Director, Trade and Regional Integration of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. His main achievements in this capacity have included the creation of a global program (€17 million) for trade policy technical assistance for African, Caribbean and Pacific states, assisting all ACP regions with the Economic Partnership Agreements with the EC, facilitating the development of regional representational facilities in Geneva for Commonwealth Small States and developing a program with the World Bank to expand the capacity of the Caribbean to train and ‘export’ teachers and nurses on a short-term basis under bilateral Mode IV arrangements

Shanker Singham is Chairman of the International Trade and Competition Policy Roundtable and the leader of Squire Sanders and Dempsey LLP’s market access/WTO practice. He is one of the world’s leading lawyers in this area, and has written over fifty articles and book chapters on related topics. He is widely quoted on these issues in the media including being interviewed by CNBC on the Doha Development round of WTO negotiations, and being quoted in the Financial Times, Times, Reuters, the Economist, Wall Street Journal and New York Times, as well as Time and Wired Magazines.

Simon Lacey completed a joint bachelor’s degree in law and European law at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is currently visiting scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore as well as a Director for the Summer Program on WTO Studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) in Geneva. Before joining both these institutions, he worked for several years at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland, where he held various positions, including Director of Studies and Director of Training Programs.

Sufian Jusoh is an NCCR Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland. He is also a Barrister (England & Wales) and an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

Thomas A. Zimmermann is a research associate at the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, where “The Reform of the DSU” has been written. He is co-editor of “WTO News” and he teaches international economic relations at the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy) as well as in management seminars.

Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, is Professor of European and International Economics Law at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law.

Todd Weiler is a pioneer of investment arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement who has lectured widely on a broad array of international trade and investment law issues. Todd Weiler acts as counsel; expert consultant; and arbitrator on investment treaty claims worldwide and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., and as a Global Faculty Member at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy at the University of Dundee, in Dundee, Scotland.

William J. Davey was from 1995 to 1999 the Director of the WTO’s Legal Affairs Division. He is the holder of the Guy Raymond Jones Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he has taught courses in international trade law, European Union law, international business transactions, and corporate/securities law since 1984.