NEGOTIATION MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP for the WTO Negotiations in 2017 Biographies May 31 – June 1, 2017 Mont Blanc Meeting Rooms World Economic Forum, Route de la Capite 91-93, 1223 Cologny, Geneva 1 Government of Argentina Authorities Biographies Miguel Braun Secretary of Commerce of Argentina since December 10, 2015. Before taking this responsibility, Mr. Braun was Executive Director of the Pensar Foundation, the think-tank of Pro, the political party founded by President Mauricio Macri. He was a board member of Banco Ciudad, and co-founder and executive director of CIPPEC, a public policy think tank. Mr. Braun obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics in 1996 at Universidad de San Andrés and a Master and PhD in economics at Harvard University. He co-authored Argentine Macroeconomics, a college textbook, and has taught public finance, macroeconomics, and political economy at the universities of Buenos Aires, San Andrés and Torcuato Di Tella. Nora Capello Undersecretary of International Economic Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Minister Nora Capello is a diplomat. She has served different positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for Bilateral Economic Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean; member of the Cabinet of the Secretary of International Economic Relations; Chief of Staff of the Undersecr eeetary for American Economic Integration; Counselor at the Embassy of Argentina to Chile - responsible for the Political and Parliamentary Section and the Economic and Trade Section - and negotiator of FTAA process. Minister Capello obtains his bachelor degree in law in 1994 from Universidad Católica de La Plata and was Associate professor of International Law and Civil Law at the same University. 2 Marcelo Cima Ambassador Permanent Representative Argentina Mission to the WTO anda the United Nations, Geneva. A member of the Argentine Foreign Service since 1985, Ambassador Marcelo Cima serves currently as the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Office in Geneva. He has been posted to the European Union in Brussels (1989-1994), and to the United States of America in Washington D.C twice (1998-2000, and 2003-2008). Working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he was Director General for Export Promotion, Director for Capital Goods, and Technology Export Promotion, acting Undersecretary of Investment Development. He holds a degree in Law from the Catholic University of Argentina (1983), Master in International Relations and International Economic Policy, Belgrano University in Argentina (1987-1988 no thesis), and Master in Public Management, University of Maryland in the USA (2010). He is a rugby passionate. Federico Lavopa Chief of Staff, Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, Secretary of Commerce, Argentine Ministry of Production of Argentina. Mr. Lavopa obtained a M.Sc. in Global Politics (London School of Economics) and a Postgraduate Degree in Regional Integration and International Economic Relations (Universitat de Barcelona). He holds a Degree in Political Science and Law from the University of Buenos Aires. He has been fellow of the British Council and the Carolina Foundation. He was also Academic Coordinator and Professor of the Master in International Relations and Negotiations from FLACSO / Argentina - University of San Andrés. He was an Advisor to the Directorate of Foreign Commercial Policy of the Ministry of Economy of Argentina, where he served as representative of the Ministry and Argentina in international economic negotiations related to investments, services, government procurement and intellectual property. He was also a lawyer for the WTO's Legal Affairs Division and served as a consultant at the WTO's Statistics and Economic Research Division and UNCTAD. 3 Maximiliano Moreno Director of Multilateral Negotiations, Ministry of Agroindustries of Argentina. Mr. Maximiliano Moreno is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in economic business law. He holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from FLACSO and a Postgraduate Degree in Regional Integration Processes at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina. Since 1997 he has been working in the National Directorate of International Agro-Food Relations of the Ministry of Agroindustry, holding different positions. More specifically, since August 2010 he is in charge of the Multilateral Negotiations Division. Mr. Moreno works with the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Production in the negotiations that take place under international organizations, such as WTO, G20, United Nations and OECD. He has taught regularly in different specialization courses and master's degrees in Universities such as Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Tres de Febrero and La Plata. He has lectured at various congresses and workshops both nationally and internationally, mainly on issues related to international agricultural trade and the rules of the multilateral trading system. Shunko Rojas Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, Secretary of Commerce, Argentine Ministry of Production. Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Harvard University. He graduated as a lawyer in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and holds a Master Degree in Global Politics, from London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). He was awarded both Fulbright and Chevening’s scholarships. With vast international experience on trade and investment, Mr. Rojas specialized in legal and institutional strategies for the internationalization of enterprises and the creation of public-private associations. After the ‘I Cumbre Empresarial de las Américas’ (Cartagena, 2012), from the Inter- American Development Bank (IADB) he promoted the creation of the ‘Diálogo Empresarial de las Américas’, a public-private dialogue forum with high rank leaders from the private sector and governments of the whole region. In 2016 Mr. Rojas was Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Commission (CNCE in Spanish). 4 Speakers Biographies Yonov Frederik Agah WTO Deputy Director-General and Nigeria’s former Ambassador to the WTO. Mr. Yonov Frederick Agah was appointed as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the WTO in 2005. In that capacity, he served as the Alternate Chief Negotiator for the Doha Round and Head of Nigeria's Trade Office to the WTO in the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Mr. Agah served as Chair of the WTO's General Council in 2011. He was responsible for organizing the VIII WTO Ministerial Conference, which was acknowledged to be successful despite the prevailing stalemate in the Doha Round. He previously worked as the Director of external trade of UTC Nigeria PLC. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics with a focus on International Trade from the University of Jos, Nigeria in 2007. Gustavo Beliz Director, Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL) from the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB). Mr. Gustavo Beliz was Minister of the Interior; Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights; President of the National Institute of Public Administration, Secretary of Public Function of Argentina. He served also as Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. As an IDB staff member, he served since 2005 in the offices of Washington and Montevideo. Mr. Beliz a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and holds postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics (LSE). 5 Francesca Bianchi Project Specialist Trade & Investment at World Economic Forum, Geneva. Francesca Bianchi is project specialist in trade and investment at World Economic Forum. Previously, she worked at the WEF’s Forum Supply Chain & Mobility Industries and Enabling Trade Project; as external relations intern at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; as legal research intern at Meyerlustenberger Lachenal (MLL) Attorneys in Geneva; and as intern at the Bacardi-Martini Group. She has a Master’s degree in international studies and international law from Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement of Geneva. She graduated for her Bachelor’s degree in international relations from University of Geneva. Xavier Carim WTO General Council Chair for 2017 and South Africa’s former Representative to the WTO until de launch of the Doha Round negotiations. Mr. Xavier Carim was also former Deputy Director General of the International Trade and Economic Development Division at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), South Africa from March 2007. As Deputy Director General, Mr. Carim was responsible for managing South Africa’s trade policy and international economic relations and his portfolio included leading South Africa’s trade negotiations at multilateral, regional and bilateral levels. From May 2002 until March 2007. He held the post of Chief Director for Trade Negotiations at the dti. Between 1998 and 2002. Before joining the DTI in 1994, Mr. Carim was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Southern African Studies and Lecturer in International Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Mr. Carim holds a BA Honours Degree in International Relations and Development Economics from the University of Toronto in Canada and an MA Degree in International Studies from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. 6 Sean Doherty Head of International Trade and Investment, World Economic Forum, Geneva. Mr. Sean Doherty heads the International Trade & Investment team at the