Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting on Trade remedies in green sectors: the case of renewables 3 – 4 April 2014 Geneva, Switzerland List of speakers Victor Manuel Aguilar Perez Head of the International Trade Practices Unit (UPCI) Ministry of Economy of Mexico Víctor Manuel Aguilar Pérez is currently the Head of the International Trade Practices Unit (UPCI) at the Ministry of Economy of Mexico, which is the investigating authority on trade remedies. He held several positions within the public sector: Deputy Director General of Injury and Safeguards Investigations at the UPCI; Economic Counselor of the Representative Offices of the Ministry of Economy at Washington, D.C. and Brussels, Belgium; Economic Counselor of the Embassy of Mexico at Brazil; Coordinator of the Advisory Office of the International Cooperation and Economic Relations Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also appointed as representative of the Government of Mexico before the World Customs Organization, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the North America Steel Trade Committee and the World Trade Organization. During his time serving at the Representative Offices at Washington and Brussels, and at the Embassy in Brazil, he provided highly qualified technical advice to both the offices of the Ministry and the Mexican exporters involved in trade remedies investigations initiated in the US, Europe and Brazil. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and his Master of Economics at El Colegio de México (COLMEX). Geraldine Ang Policy Analyst, OECD Geraldine Ang has been a Policy Analyst at the OECD since October 2011. She works jointly within the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs and the Environment Directorate on issues related to green investment. She is currently working on a project to identify best practices for creating a level playing field for international investment in green energy. Previously, she helped develop elements of a green investment policy framework to mobilize private investment in green infrastructure (Corfee-Morlot et al., 2012). She has also been focusing part of her research on transport infrastructure and is co-authoring a paper on Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport. Prior to joining the OECD, she conducted research on the economics of climate change mitigation for the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and consulted for the US Mission to the UN on climate change and sustainable development. She also served as Senior Editor of Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs. Previously, she worked for three years at Lagardere Active in New York, as Associate Manager, and for one year at the French Senate. Geraldine holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2011), and a Master of Science in Management from HEC Paris (2006). Mukesh Bhatnagar Professor, Centre for WTO Studies Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Mr. Mukesh Bhatnagar is currently working as Professor in the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. His area of specialization is WTO Trade Remedy Measures and Dispute Settlement. He has an overall experience of about 30 years in handling international trade issues including trade remedies, WTO disputes and various policy instruments of government for promotion of exports. Prior to joining the Centre for WTO Studies he worked in the Trade Policy Division of Department of Commerce for 5 years from 2007-2012 where he handled Rules Negotiations in the Doha round. During this time he also handled several important disputes where India was either a complainant or a respondent. He took part in the negotiations of the Negotiating Group on Rules in the area of Anti- dumping and Subsidies including Fisheries Subsidies. Prior to that he has worked for 5 years in the Directorate General of Anti-dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) which is the Indian investigating authority for anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations. He has experience of handling about 25 investigations and various kinds of reviews under the Anti-dumping Agreement. He has also handled negotiations of bilateral FTAs in the area of Trade Remedies and Dispute Settlement. He had joined the Government of India’s, Indian Trade Service in 1984 and has served in different capacities, the last being as Additional Director General of Foreign Trade in the Department of Commerce, Government of India. 1 While working in different offices of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade he was associated in formulation and implementation of government’s various schemes relating to foreign trade. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Hull, UK and did his graduation in B.Com (Hons.) from Delhi University. Aaron Cosbey Associate and Senior Climate Change and Trade Advisor International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Aaron Cosbey is an environmental economist specializing in the areas of trade and sustainable development, international environmental governance, and climate change. He works on two of IISD's program areas: trade and investment, where he serves as Associate and Senior Advisor, and climate change and energy, where he serves as Associate. He manages IISD’s program of work on trade, investment and climate change. He is a past Member of International Trade Canada's Market Access Advisory Group, past Member of the Deputy Minister for International Trade's Academic Advisory Council on Canadian Trade Policy, and of the Minister for International Trade's Environmental Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade, where he chaired the SAGIT's Working Group on the FTAA. Thomas Cottier Managing Director World Trade Institute Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He directs the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR 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 to 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. Oliver Ehrentraut Senior Programme Officer Prognos Dr. Oliver Ehrentraut studied Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2001 to 2008 he worked as Researcher at the Institute of Public Finance and the Research Center for Generational Contracts, Freiburg University. In 2006 he completed his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.), in which he analyzed the effects of the demographic change on the German Pension System. He joined Prognos in 2008. Since 2011 he is responsible for the Department of Labor Market and Social Security and mainly involved in topics related to employment and fiscal policy. Gaston Maria Funes Minister Counsellor for Agricultural Affairs Embassy of Argentina to the European Union Mr. Funes was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, on 11th June 1969. He obtained his degree on Veterinary Medicine in April 1993. From November 2009 to date he has the position of Minister Counsellor for Agricultural Affairs at the Embassy of Argentina to the EU. Main tasks of this position are related to EU policies, legislation and trade on agricultural, agri-food and agri-industrial products. He was working before for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) from June 2006 to November 2009 as Head of the Regional Activities Department. Before joining the OIE, Mr. Funes worked for the Argentine National Service of Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA) from 1993 to June 2006, where he held different positions such Risk Analysis Coordinator, and finally the position of Director of Epidemiology until he moved to Europe. Yong Han Division Director, Bureau of Fair Trade for Imports & Exports (BOFT) Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China Mr. Han Yong started working in the field of trade remedy in 1998, as an investigator dealing with the first antidumping investigation of China. Since then he has been actively engaged in buildup and improvement of the legal system of trade remedy of China and practicing with enormous efforts. As Chief negotiator of China, Mr. Han had been participating in the rules negotiation of Doha Round for ten years and was ever designated by the Chairman of the Negotiation Group on Rules as “Friend of Chair” to provide necessary assistance to the Group on his personal capacity. Currently, Mr. Han is Division Director of Bureau of Fair Trade for Imports & Exports (BOFT), Ministry of Commerce of P.R. China. His responsibility is mainly to help Chinese companies respond to trade remedy investigations initiated 2 by North American and Oceana countries and monitor their practices. He has Master of Business Administration of Australian Graduate School of Management of both University of New South Wales and University of Sydney, and Bachelor of Law of University of International Business and Economics. Bernard Hoekman Professor and Research Director, Global Economics European University Institute Bernard Hoekman is the Director of the research strand “Global