Steering Committee

The Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project is guided by a Steering Committee that draws from leaders with a diverse range of experience, backgrounds, and expertise. This group is responsible for guiding the development of a reform framework and cultivating a next generation of trade leaders who will prioritize the sustainability imperative and the need to manage trade consistent with other critical societal goals including climate change action, worker impacts, poverty alleviation, human rights protection and public health collaboration.

Founding Partners

Steering Committee

  • Monica Araya

    Founder of Latin American sustainability group, Nivela

  • James Bacchus

    Former U.S. congressman and Chair of the WTO Appellate Body

  • Kimberly Botwright

    Head of Sustainable Trade at the World Economic Forum

  • James Cameron

    London Barrister and founder of Climate Change Capital

  • Kathleen Claussen

    Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and former Associate General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

  • Aaron Cosbey

    Senior Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and an expert in investment and sustainable development

  • Thomas Cottier

    Emeritus Professor at University of Bern, Member of the Swiss negotiating team at the GATT Uruguay Round

  • Carolyn Deere Birkbeck

    Director of the Forum on Trade, Environmental and the SDGS at Geneva Graduate Institute

  • Henry Gao

    Professor of Law at Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

  • Anthony Hill

    Former Jamaican WTO Ambassador

  • Maria Ivanova

    Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and leading scholar of global governance

  • Alejandro Jara

    Former WTO Deputy Director-General and Chilean WTO Ambassador

  • Bukola Jejeloye

    Entrepreneur and attorney

  • Pascal Lamy

    Former WTO Director-General and EU Trade Commissioner

  • Johanna Lorenzo

    Professor at the University of Amsterdam and expert in reform of International Financial Institutions

  • Tim Meyer

    Professor at Duke Law School

  • James Mwangi

    CEO of Equity Group Holdings Plc and Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur

  • James Nedumpara

    Professor and Head of the Centre for Trade and Investment Law at Jindal Global Law School

  • Ulli Petersmann

    Professor of Law at European University Institute

  • Glenn Prickett

    President and CEO of the World Environment Center

  • Mark Ritchie

    Director of Global Minnesota and former Secretary of State of Minnesota

  • Sonia Rolland

    Professor of Law at Northeastern University

  • Debra Steger

    Professor at the University of Ottawa and the first Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization

  • Anna Stellinger

    Deputy Director General, Head of International and EU Affairs, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

  • Simon Tay

    Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs

  • Andres Valenciano

    Former Costa Rican Trade Minister

  • John Weekes

    Former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO, Ambassador to the GATT, and Chair of GATT Council

  • Han-Koo Yeo

    Former Trade Minister for South Korea

  • Rufus Yerxa

    Former WTO Deputy Director-General and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative