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WTO Accessions and Trade Multilateralism

From

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9:30 am March 2016

To

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12:00 pm March 2016

Ministère du Commerce Extérieur, Rabat

OCP Policy Center is pleased to receive Dr. Chiedu Osakwe, Director of accessions at the WTO and Dr. Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow at OCP Policy Center to present their book on: 'WTO Accessions and Trade Multilateralism Case Studies and Lessons from the WTO at Twenty'

This book offers critical readings on WTO accession negotiations and how they expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system at different levels. Accession negotiations have been used by governments as an instrument for domestic reforms, and one lesson from the accession process is that there are contexts which lead multilateral trade negotiations to successful outcomes even in the complex and multi-polar twenty-first century economic environment.

Through their presentations, speakers will questions what WTO accessions have contributed to the rules-based multilateral trading system.

Speakers
Uri Dadush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Uri Dadush is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, where he served as Senior Fellow from its founding in 2014 until 2022. He is Research Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He is based in Washington, DC, and is Principal of Economic Policy International, LLC, providing consulting services to the World Bank and to other international organizations as well as corporations. Previously, he served as Director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, at the World Bank, was Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments. In the private sector before that he was President of the Economist Int ...
Chiedu Osakwe
WTO Director of the Accessions Division
Chiedu Osakwe is WTO Director of the Accessions Division. His previous WTO positions include Special Coordinator for LDCs and Head of the Secretariat Working Group on the Integrated Framework for LDCs, Office of the Director-General (1999-2001).  In this position he was Chairman of the Inter Agency Working Group (IAWG) for the Integrated Framework.  He has also served as Director of the Technical Cooperation Division (2001-2002); Director, Textiles Division (2003-2005), Director, Doha Development Agenda – DDA Special Duties Division, Office of the Director-General (2005-2008).  Prior to joining the WTO Secretariat, Mr. Osakwe was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer (1979-1998).  In this period, he served at the Permanent Missions of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York (19 ...