Nicolás Albertoni is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay. He is a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar and Professor at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He is an active researcher at the Uruguayan National System for Researchers (SNI-ANII). He received a PhD in political science and international relations from the University of Southern California (USC) and a PhD in business administration from the Catholic University of Argentina. He received a master’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in politics both from USC and a master’s degree in Latin American studies from Georgetown University´s School of Foreign Service, and a BA in international business and integration from the Catholic University of Uruguay. He is the author of three books: Uruguay como solución: Un análisis sobre su insercion interncional (Penguin Press, 2019); Instrucciones para inventar la rueda (Penguin Press, 2014) and Entre el barrio y el mundo ¿Mercosur o el modelo Chileno? (Penguin Press, 2011). His opinion articles have been featured in the New York Times, El País (Spain), CNN and El País (Uruguay).

José Manuel Álvarez Zárate is Professor and Researcher at the Economic Law Department Director of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. His areas of interest are international trade and investment law, Andean Community law and, in general, international economic law. During his professional career, he has worked as an advisor on matters related to international commercial law, international arbitration, and Community law of the Andean Community of Nations, in the sectors of mining, port concessions and waste disposal, telecommunications and services. Also, he was an advisor to the private sector in the negotiations for the conformation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, and has collaborated in the drafting of laws and decrees related to international trade, arbitration and competition, among others. He has been a litigator before national and international courts, in disputes related to intellectual property, competition law, services, distribution and agency agreements, telecommunications and mining. He has almost thirty years of experience as a professor and lecturer on topics related to international law, and international economic and investment law. He has more than fifty publications in books and specialized magazines, and is the general editor of the International Economic Law Collection and the Con-Texto Journal of the Economic Law Department of Universidad Externado de Colombia Law School.

Amrita Bahri is an associate professor of international trade law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Co-Chair Professor for the WTO Chair Program (Mexico). Dr Bahri has published in the areas of international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, capacity-building in emerging economies, trade and gender. Her work has been published in prestigious journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, Trade, Law & Development, Global Trade & Customs Journal, and Journal of International Trade Law & Policy. Dr Bahri has been appointed by the European Commission to the pool of candidates to chair the Expert Panel Proceedings on Trade and Sustainable Development. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown University. Working with the International Trade Centre (ITC)’s team, she has designed the very first framework to measure the gender-responsiveness of free trade agreements. She explains this framework in ITC’s policy paper titled ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements’.

Diana María Beltrán Vargas is a lecturer in international economic law at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Her areas of interest are public international law and international economic law, particularly investment law. Professionally, she has worked in litigation and private counselling, in matters related to commercial arbitration and contracts. She is currently a lecturer in the undergraduate course of international litigation, and coordinates Universidad Externado de Colombia teams for the FDI Moot Court and the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. She has co-authored chapters of books related to dispute resolution methods and international investment law, and has participated in conferences on the same topics. She holds an undergraduate degree in law and a postgraduate degree in contract law and legal business relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a master’s degree (LLM) in international commercial law from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Andrés Bórquez is an assistant professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile (since 2019). He holds a doctorate in international politics from Fudan University, China; a master’s degree in social policy from the University of Paris 1, France; a bachelor’s degree in international negotiations from the University of Valparaíso, Chile; and a bachelor’s degree in management from Montpellier Business School, France. He is the coordinator of the master’s programme in Development and International Cooperation and of the Diploma Coordinator in Asian Studies and Diploma Coordinator in Chinese Studies at the University of Chile. His awards and recognitions include the Recognition Medal for his contribution to bilateral relations between Chile and China, awarded by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2020), the Membership of the Civil Society Council of the Undersecretary of International Economic Relations (2022), and the Chile Scholarship for Postgraduate studies in 2015. He is the co-editor of the book China’s Trade Policy in Latin America and Relations between Chile and China: A Comprehensive Focus (with Dorotea López, Felipe Muñoz and Guoyou Song, Springer, 2022). He is a principal researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Javiera Cáceres is an instructor professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile, a legal research fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and PhD fellow at the International Development department, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. She holds a BA in English literature and linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and an MA in international strategy and trade policy from the University of Chile. She has been a consultant for the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, ECLAC, and the Chilean Under-Secretariat of International Economic Affairs on international trade and trade policy issues. Her main research interests are international development, intellectual property and artificial intelligence, trade policy, and gender and trade.

Julia Calvert is a senior lecturer in international political economy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on international political economy, domestic norms, Latin American politics, international investment law and international organizations. She is the author of The Politics of Investment Treaties in Latin America (2022, Oxford University Press), which examines the reform of international investment law in Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina. Her work has also appeared in the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, the Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy, and edited volumes.

María Camila Camargo Moncayo is a legal advisor at the Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, supporting the implementation of the multipurpose cadastre policy established under Colombia’s Peace Agreement. She holds a law degree and a master’s degree in International Affairs from Universidad Externado de Colombia. She specializes in public law, and has experience as a legal advisor, researcher, and professor of constitutional and international law. Additionally, she has co-authored chapters in books on constitutional law, environmental governance, and trade agreements.

Daniela Campello is an associate professor of politics and international affairs at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, in Brazil. Campello received her PhD in political science from UCLA and was formerly an assistant professor at Princeton University. She was also Oxford-CAF Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars. Campello’s research lies at the frontier of international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on the consequences of globalization for domestic politics in emerging economies. Her work has been published in leading political science journals, and she is the author of The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-author of The Volatility Curse (with Cesar Zucco, Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Letícia Daibert is a PhD candidate at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales –FLACSO-Argentina, and an associate manager at Accenture. She has a law degree and an MA in international law, both from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), with a period of academic exchange at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina) and at Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig (Germany). She also has an LLM in international relations from the Faculdades Integradas Milton Campos (Brazil). Her research focuses on WTO, the multilateral dispute settlement, sustainability and the new economy, always under the perspective of developing countries.

Valentina Delich is a professor and researcher at FLACSO-Argentina, where she currently holds the Executive Director position. Delich holds a PhD in international public law from the University of Buenos Aires. Her research focuses on international economic relations, multilateral and regional trade, intellectual property, and Latin American development. She is frequently called to work for governments and international organizations on trade-related matters.

Andreas Dür is a professor of international politics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (2004). Dür has published several books and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles on trade policy, interest group politics and European integration. Since 2017, he has been the principal investigator of the TRADEPOWER project, which is financed by the European Research Council.

Manfred Elsig is Full Professor of International Relations and Deputy Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. He was the Director of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Trade Regulation (www.nccr-trade.org) from 2013 to 2017. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich. His research focuses on international political economy, international organizations, international courts, preferential trade agreements and European trade policy. He is the author of a large number of publications in journals such as European Union Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and World Trade Review. He is the co-editor of Governing the WTO: Past, Present and Beyond Doha (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose? (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Kirthana Ganeson is a PhD student in political science at the World Trade Institute, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Manfred Elsig. Her PhD project explores the linkages and impacts of trade on democracy. Ganeson holds an MSc in international political economy from the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, and a BA with honours in political science from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include politics of international trade, EU–Asia trade relations, the role of private actors in international trade, and non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements.

Robert A Huber is a lecturer in comparative politics at the University of Reading, UK. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (2018). Huber has published extensively on globalization-induced challenges to liberal democracy, such as populism, climate politics and trade policy.

Sebastian Klotz is a senior manager at PwC Switzerland, where is work focuses on trade, technology, and sustainability. He completed his doctorate at the World Trade Institute with a dissertation on the linkages between international standardization organizations and international trade agreements. During his doctoral studies, he was a Doc.Mobility Fellow (Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Oxford and a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Munich. He also received the International Organization Research Fellowship of the Swiss Network for International Studies and the Young Researcher Promotion Fund of the University of Bern.

Dorotea López is an economist from the Instituto Técnologico Autónomo de México (ITAM), with a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a PhD in social sciences at the University of Chile. She worked at the Mexican Central Bank and Mexican Economic Ministry. In Chile, she worked at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an official trade negotiator in WTO and Free Trade Agreements in the area of Trade in Services and Investment. Currently Titular Professor and Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, and WTO Chair holder. He is a principal researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Her main areas of interest are trade policy and services.

Andrew Lugg is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a non-resident fellow at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. Previously he was a lecturer at the University of Maryland, a postdoctoral scholar at the World Trade Institute, and an assistant professor and postdoctoral scholar at DePauw University. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Maryland (2020). His research focuses broadly on international political economy and international organizations, including a focus on the proliferation and design of trade and investment treaties. His publications have appeared in journals including The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of International Economic Law, Global Policy, and Research & Politics.

Felipe Muñoz is an associate professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile. He holds a BA in economics and an MA in international studies, both from the University of Chile, and is a PhD fellow at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. His main research areas are trade policy and international economics, with particular emphasis on Latin America. He has participated in various research projects, including the WTO Chair program and UNCTAD’s Virtual Institute, and consulting for the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, ECLAC, JETRO and the Chilean Under-Secretariat of International Economic Affairs, amongst others. His main research interests are trade policy, international development and trade in services.

Juliana Peixoto is a professor and researcher at the FLACSO-Argentina’s International Relations department and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in international relations from the same university. Her research agenda focuses on multilateral trade governance, regional integration and sustainable development. Her two latest publications discuss the politics of the Aid for Trade agenda and the crisis, stagnation and survival of the World Trade Organization.

Rodrigo Polanco is a senior lecturer, researcher and academic coordinator of master’s programmes at WTI - University of Bern, and a legal advisor for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Chile. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law from Universidad de Chile, an LLM in international legal studies from New York University and a PhD in law from the University of Bern. Polanco has published extensively as an author and editor in leading international academic publishers and international journals on investment, trade, tax and environmental law. He is a co-founder of EDIT (Electronic Database of Investment Treaties) and of the board of Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA), a Chilean NGO, serving on the editorial committee of their law journal (Justicia Ambiental).

Marine Roux is a PhD candidate at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. She is investigating the impact of the design and implementation of trade agreements and conditions to accede to the WTO on democracy as part of the SNSF-funded project TRADEM. Prior to joining the WTI, Roux worked as an economist in the public sector on a diverse range of areas, including regulation, trade policy and data science. Roux holds a master’s degree in public policy and development from the Toulouse School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University Paris Nanterre.

Víctor Saco is a full-time associate professor of international economic law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), where he teaches and researches trade and investment topics, and is Director of the master’s programme on international economic law at PUCP. He holds a law degree from PUCP, an LLM in International and European Law from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), and is a PhD candidate at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern (Switzerland). He is a visiting professor at the Universidad del Externado, Colombia; Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) professor at the Universidad Católica de San Pablo (Bolivia); and has also been a lecturer at the University of Antwerp Belgium on technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) topics. Prof. Saco has attended the Hague Academy on International Law (PIL), Institut René Cassin (Strasbourg), the WTI Summer Academy, and the International Law Seminar (International Law Commission, United Nations, Geneva).

Cristian Ugarte is a senior economic officer at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, Switzerland, where his work focuses on the negotiation and the implementation of FTAs. Previously, he worked as a trade policy analyst at the Trade Policies Review Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and before joining the WTO, he served as an economist for other international agencies, including the International Trade Centre, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and World Bank. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Geneva. As a researcher, he contributed to several papers and publications dealing with trade and development issues, notably barriers to developing countries’ exports and the impact of trade-related policies. At the WTO, he was involved in the preparation of several Trade Policy Reviews for WTO members (CEMAC, Viet Nam, OECS, the United States, Dominican Republic).

Francisco Urdínez is a 2022–23 Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and Associate Professor at the Political Science Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he is affiliated with the Center of International Studies and the Center of Asian Studies. He is the director of the multi-year project Millennium Nucleus of the Impacts of China in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development. Urdínez has testified to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the American Congress on China-Latin American relations. Urdínez has been a Fellow of the Chilean Fund for Scientific and Technological Development. He received his PhD joint-degree from the University of São Paulo and King’s College London in the field of international relations.

Sofía Urrea Zuluaga is a legal advisor at Colombia’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Tourism, where she supports the country’s defense in international trade disputes and the negotiation of trade agreements. She holds a law degree and a graduate degree in International Economic Law from Universidad Externado de Colombia. She specializes in international economic law and has experience as a legal advisor, professor, and researcher. Additionally, she has co-authored publications on trade policy, investment law, and food security, and has represented Colombia in high-profile cases before the Andean Community and WTO.

Carol Wise is a professor of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California (USC). She has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform and the political economy of market restructuring in the Latin American region. Wise is author of Dragonomics: How Latin America is Maximizing (or Missing Out) on China’s International Development Strategy (Yale University Press, 2020), which received USC’s Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award in 2021 and the Luciano Tomassini 2021 Award-Honorable Mention for the Best Book on International Relations from the Latin American Studies Association. She is co-editor of Unexpected Outcomes: How the Emerging Economies Survived the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis (Brookings, 2016), and co-editor of The Political Economy of China-Latin American Relations in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2016). She has also authored the article ‘Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China’s Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe’ (with Oldrich Krpec) in the journal New Political Economy (2021). Wise holds a PhD in political science from Colombia University.

Julieta Zelicovich is a professor in the Department of International Relations at the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. She holds a PhD in international relations from the National University of Rosario. Her primary research interests are international trade, global governance, regional integration and Argentinean foreign policy. Her latest publications discuss the changes and crisis of the World Trade Organization and its effects on developing countries’ trade policy.