Topic：World Trade and Global Governance: A Dialogue with Former WTO Director General
Time: 16:00-17:30, February 19th, Wednesday, 2014
Venue: Meeting Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Speaker: Pascal Lamy, Director General (2005-2013), World Trade Organization
Commentator: LONG Guoqiang, Research Fellow, Development Research Center of State Council
Language: English
Introduction:
On February 19th, the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University is co-hosting a lecture with the Brookings-Tsinghua Center of Public Policy and the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, featuring Mr. Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization.
Mr. Lamy will share his insights on world trade and global governance, based on his book “Geneva Consensus” and the report of the Oxford Martin School Commission, published in October 2013, “Now for the long term”
Mr. Lamy served two terms as Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from September 2005 to September 2013. He is currently Honorary President of Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute, President of the World Committee of Tourism Ethics, President of the Oxford Martin School’s Commission on future challenges, member of the Global Ocean Commission and of UNAIDS and Lancet Commission, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble (Orchestra Marc Minkowski), member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques and of the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company.
The talk will be followed by Q&A session. Working language will be English.
Please contact us to RSVP for this event:
Email: btcevents@brookings.edu
Tel: (+8610) 6279 5601
