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Executive Director and Chief Trade and Policy officer, British American Business
Emanuel is responsible for the development and execution of the organisation’s wider policy advocacy and trade and& investment portfolio in both the U.S and the UK.
An acknowledged reference for governments, businesses and stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic, Emanuel has also published numerous articles and publications in the field of transatlantic trade and investment. He has coordinated business input to several major trade negotiations, such as TTIP, the Brexit talks, the UK-U.S. FTA and other bilateral agreements around innovation, mobility, aviation, tariffs and data flows.
Stephen Adams
Senior Director, Global Counsel
Stephen sSupportsing the trade, investment and financial services policy practices, with a focus on industrial and trade policy, supply chain design and corporate internationalisation. He works with senior leaders in many Global Counsel GC clients to deepen and develop their engagement with public policymaking.
Stephen has previously worked as a policy adviser on international trade and the EU single market in the European Parliament, as an advisor in DG Trade in the European Commission and an adviser to the British Secretary of State for Business. He was also an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London.
Amanda Brooks
Director General for Trade Negotiations, Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
Amanda Brooks has been Director General for Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiations in the Department for Business and Trade since June 2021. Amanda leads teams: negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs), contributing to the reset of the UK-EU relationship and providing policy leadership for work on market access, multilateral trade, and development of broader economic relationships. She has spent much of her career working on domestic and international economic policy, including serving as Deputy High Commissioner to Singapore.
Anupam Chander
Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University
Professor Chander is an expert on the global regulation of new technologies. A recipient of Google Research Awards and an Andrew Mellon grant on the topic of surveillance, he has served on ICTSD/World Economic Forum expert groups on the digital economy. He currently serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Policy, a faculty advisor to Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and as a faculty affiliate of Yale’s Information Society Project.
Sabina Ciofu
Associate Director – International, techUK
Sabina runs the International Policy and Trade Programme, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, regulatory cooperation as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD. Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.
Kathleen Claussen
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
A leader in international economic law and procedure, Professor Kathleen Kathleen Claussen has served as arbitrator, counsel, expert, public servant, and teacher. Her expertise covers several topics of international law, especially trade, investment, international business and labour; dispute settlement and international dispute bodies; national security and cybersecurity law; and administrative law issues surrounding U.S. foreign relations and transnational agreements.
Iana Dreyer
Founder and Editor of Bordelex
Iana has over fifteen years of international trade policy expertise and launched Borderlex in 2014, examining the politics shaping EU trade policy, systemic issues at the WTO, international trade disputes, the nexus between security and trade and EU-Asian trade relations.
She has worked as policy analyst for think tanks in international trade and energy policy, consulted for governments and worked with the European Centre for International Political Economy, the Institute Montaigne and the EU Institute for Security Studies.
James Dunn
Government and& Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy, DXC Technology
Focused James is focused on demonstrating DXC’s capabilities to drive digital transformation especially in the UK public sector, where DXC has decades of experience.
Prior to this, James worked for five years in the UK Civil Service, leading teams working on trade negotiations, crisis management, and social policy.
Elvire Fabry
Senior Research Fellow, Jacques Delors Institute
In charge of Geopolitics of trade and Rapporteur of the working group on EU-China relations. Her Elvire’sareas of expertise include EU bilateral trade negotiations, EU-US relations, EU-China relations, investment, global governance, WTO reform, Brexit and perceptions of globalisation. She previously conducted research on the EU’s external action policies (trade, security and defense, neighbourhood, migration…).
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Non-resident Fellow, Bruegel
Ignacio García Bercero joined Bruegel as a Non-resident fellow in September 2024. Active at the European Commission since 1987, he participated in the Uruguay Round negotiations and subsequently Chief Negotiator for the EU-Korea and EU-India Free Trade Agreements. Mr García Bercero holds a Law Degree from the Law Faculty of Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Master of Laws Degree (with Distinction) from University College, London.
Jennifer Hillman
Professor of Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
Teaching the lead courses in international business and international trade, while serving as a fellow of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Jennifer. She has also written extensively about international trade law and the WTO.
Co-director of the Center for Inclusive Trade and Development, Jennifer recently completed her term serving on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body. Prior to that, she served for nine years as a commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC).
Bernard Hoekman
Professor, Global Economics, European University Institute
A researcher at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) and Professor and Director, Global Economics, at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Bernard has held management positions in the World Bank working on international trade issues and served as an economist in the GATT Secretariat. His research focuses on trade policy and development, trade in services, public procurement, regulatory cooperation, global governance and the WTO.
Caroline Hug
Trade Reporter, Politico
Caroline has written extensively on trade policy, the World Trade Organization, and the UK’s trading relationships post-Brexit with the US, EU, and China. She previously worked as chief reporter at Citywire, specializing in UK economics, investment, and regulation. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Exeter and a master’s from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Anna Jerzewska
Consultant
Chief Content Officer at Customs Clear,
Founder of Trade & Borders, a consultancy offering bespoke advice and training on customs, international trade and Brexit to private and public sector client ands. Customs and International Trade Lead at Cbamboo, a CBAM-focused start-up. As Deputy Director at HMRC between 2022 and 2023 she advised on customs matters, border processes and trader readiness. AlsoAnna is, a member of the Department for Business and Trade UK (DBT) Customs Thematic Working Group and co-chair of the Trade Facilitation Committee at the British Chambers of Commerce in Brussels and . Anna is a Brexit commentator, associate fellow of the UKTPO. and trade adviser to the International Trade Committee.
Emily Jones
Associate Professor in Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government
Emily directs the Global Economic Governance Programme which fosters research and debate on how to make the global economy inclusive and sustainable. Her research examines the political economy of global trade and finance. Co-founder and co-director of the Trade and Public Policy (TaPP) Network, she is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, and recently served as a specialist adviser to the International Trade Select Committee in the UK Parliament.
Rem Korteweg
Senior Research fellow and Head of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach, Clingendael Institute
Rem works on Europe’s strategic role in the world, with a specific focus on the intersection between foreign policy, trade and security issues. Among his current research interests are European trade & industrial policy, the consequences of the Ukraine war, UK-EU ties, and Europe’s changing relations with global powers. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Leiden University and a masters in the History of International Relations from Utrecht University.
Andrew Lang
Professor of International Law and Global Governance, University of Edinburgh
An expert in Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law and the Law of the World Trade Organization. Previously a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics; he has a combined BA/LLB from the University of Sydney and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge.
Emily Lydgate
Professor of Environmental Law, University of Sussex
Deputy Director of CITP and Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, her research focuses on the relationship between environmental regulation and economic integration through trade. Emily is a Specialist Advisor to the EFRA Committee (UK House of Commons), and was an instructor for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's Advanced Diplomatic Academy. She is currently working on an EU Horizon 2020 grant project on EU Free Trade Agreements and leading on a report for the UK Committee on Climate Change on trade policy and emissions reduction.
Rodney D Ludema
Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Chair of the Economics Department and the Director of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service.
Professor Ludema specialiszes in international trade, with research interests including the political economy of trade policy, international trade bargaining, preferential trade agreements, trade and the environment, GATT rules and dispute settlement, and economic sanctions. He served as Chief Economist of the United States Department of State from and as Senior International Economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Greg Messenger
Professor of Trade Law and Policy, University of Bristol Law School
A specialist in trade law and policy with research interests in the practice of economic diplomacy, specifically focusing on the interface between trade law and key policy areas including sustainable development, public health, and foreign policy. Co-founder of the Trade & Public Policy (TaPP) Network, the UK's largest network of academic trade experts.
Minako Morita-Jaeger
Senior Research Fellow in International Trade, University of Sussex
Minako is a researcher at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) and has been working intensively on international trade policy across the globe for decades. She currently focuses on analysing UK trade policy and its economic and social impacts. Prior to her research work in academia, she held various roles in policy analysis, trade negotiation and economic affairs and is a frequent speaker at international conferences organised by governments, think tanks and business organisations.
Ambassador Petter Ølberg of Norway
Norwegian Ambassador to the WTO and EFTA
Current chair of the WTO General Council, Ambassador Ølberg is a diplomat with bilateral and multilateral experience. With particular expertise and experience in public diplomacy with the EU, Germany and the Middle East.
Mona Paulsen
Assistant Professor of Law, LSE Law School
Dr Mona Paulsen holds a PhD in International Economic Law from The Dickson Poon School of Law, KCL and an LLM in International Law from The George Washington University School of Law. She is on the editorial board for World Trade Review and co-chairs a seminar series on International Economic Law & Policy. Prior to joining the LSE, Mona was Teaching Fellow for the International Economic Law, Business, and Policy LL.M. Program at Stanford Law School. Before that, she was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University.
Zheng Wang
Professor of International Economics, University of Dundee
Zheng Wang is an economist working in the fields of international trade, political economy, environmental economics and their intersections. His recent research projects revolve around understanding the nexus of trade, people flows, institutions and the environment in the context of globalization. He earned his PhDs, both in economics, from the University of Nottingham and Zhejiang University.
L. Alan Winters CB
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
L. Alan Winters is former Co-Director of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP), Emeritus Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex, a leading contributor to the debate on Brexit and post-Brexit trade policy. From 2008 to 2011 he was Chief Economist at the Department for International Development (DFID), and from 2004 to 2007 Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He was editor of The World Trade Review (2009-2020).
Dr Linda Yueh CBE
Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School and Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.
Linda is associated with both the Centre for Economic Performance and IDEAS research centres at the London School of Economics. Linda is a widely published author and TV and radio presenter including for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, as well as having fronted BBC TV series.
