List of Contributors to the book

JESÚS ANTÓN is a Senior Economist with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where he has worked since 1998. From 2005 to 2007 he was seconded to the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where he served as advisor to the Secretary General of Agriculture and Food. He has published extensively on agricultural trade policy and economic issues, and in particular on the decoupling of agricultural support from production.

CHRISTOPHE BELLMANN is the Programmes Director at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). He holds a Masters in International Relations from the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva. Before joining ICTSD, Mr. Bellmann worked with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and with the Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations.

DAVID BLANDFORD is a professor, and former department head, in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and professor in the School of International Affairs at Penn State University. He was formerly a division director at the OECD in Paris and a professor at Cornell University. He teaches courses in agribusiness at Penn State and conducts research into food and agricultural policies, including their environmental, trade and rural development aspects.

ARIEL BRUNNER is EU Agriculture Policy officer with the environmental NGO BirdLife International. His main work is in advocating CAP reform and better implementation of the EU rural development policy. Before moving to Brussels he was following the implementation of EU nature conservation legislation in Italy for LIPU, the local BirdLife partner. As part of this work he has been involved in debates around the 2003 mid-term reform and national implementation of cross compliance and rural development as well as in designation of the country’s Special Protection Areas (Natura 2000) network.

TERESA CAVERO is a senior policy researcher with Oxfam International, where she has worked since 2004. She is responsible for Intermón Oxfam’s research on Economic Justice (trade, agriculture and climate change), the strategic planning of research, supervision of implementation and financing, and development of concrete research pieces.

ANDREA CERDA is a senior official in the Oficina de Estudios y Politícas Agrarias (ODEPA), a subordinate agency of the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture, where she has worked since 1996. Her field of expertise is related to international trade agreements, international trade rules, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and agricultural trade. In March 2008, she was appointed Deputy Director for International Affairs at ODEPA, in which capacity she has participated in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture; represented the interests of the agricultural sector and advised the government on negotiating options; coordinated the participation of the Ministry of Agriculture in international organizations and fora such as the FAO, IICA, APEC and OECD; and supervised the production of statistics, analysis and publications relating to trade agreements and agricultural trade. She has also worked as a consultant for the FAO and as a university lecturer in international economics.

VINCENT CHATELLIER is a research engineer at the French Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). His research interests include the consequences of the successive reforms of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, agricultural subsidies and the way in which these are allocated to farmers, and analysis of the diverse forms of French and European agricultural production. He has published widely on CAP reform, subsidies and agricultural policies.

CINTHIA C. COSTA received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of São Paulo. Currently she is a professor at the University of São Carlos, Sorocaba campus (UFSCar) in São Paulo, Brazil. Until January 2008 she worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE). As part of ICONE’s team she worked on several projects with the World Bank, OECD and IDB. Her main field of study includes quantitative analysis focusing on Brazil’s international trade negotiations, particularly the WTO.

PEDRO DE CAMARGO NETO previously served as Secretary of Production and Trade with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. During his time in office, he was responsible for agricultural negotiations in the WTO, FTAA, Mercosur and other bilateral agreements from 2000 to 2002. He is currently President of ABIPECS, the Brazilian Association of Pork Producers and Exporters, and has also served as President of the Sociedade Rural Brasileira, Brazil.

HARRY DE GORTER teaches and conducts research on the political economy and applied welfare economics of agricultural trade policy at Cornell University. Much of his recent work has been on agriculture and the WTO negotiations, especially the impact on developing countries. Prior to Cornell, he worked for the International Trade Policy Division of the Canadian Government. He has long been actively involved in advising many governments and organizations on issues related to agriculture trade policy, including the EU, FAO, G-20, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WTO and the World Bank.

BISWAJIT DHAR is a professor and head of the Center for WTO Studies at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Dhar received his Masters degree and Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has served as Senior Fellow at the Research and Information System for the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi; and as a Senior Consultant to the Planning Commission of the Government of India, June to August 1997. He has also worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi, and in the Corporate Studies Group of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Dr. Dhar has published widely on a range of international trade and development issues.

IVANA DOPORTO MIGUEZ is an economist at the Centro de Economía Internacional (CEI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she has worked since 2005. Her areas of specialization are agricultural economy and multilateral agricultural trade within the framework of the Doha Round. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Belgrano, and finished a Postgraduate course in Economics at the Torcuato Di Tella University. She is currently attending a Master of Science in Finance at the CEMA University.

JANE EARLEY currently works for the Earley and White Consulting Group in Alexandria, USA. Previously, she served as Director and Senior Manager of Agriculture Markets work for the World Wildlife Fund, where she focused on international agriculture and trade policy-oriented work on standards and certification of commodities ranging from biofuels to sugarcane. Ms. Earley is a former trade negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative, with wide experience in environmental and trade issues affecting emerging markets and developing economies.

CARLOS GALPERÍN is a senior economist at the CEI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has worked since 1998. His areas of specialization are trade policy, economic impact of trade agreements, agricultural trade and environmental economics. He is also a researcher at the University of Belgrano, and lectures on undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Lomas de Zamora, CAECE University, National Technological University and the University of Buenos Aires. Galperín has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas (ESEADE), Argentina.

RENATO ANTONIO HENZ works in the Agricultural Policy Secretariat of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (SPA/MAPA). From 1995 to 2007 he served as an advisor on the agricultural trade component of negotiations in the following international fora: WTO, MERCOSUL, bilateral free trade agreements and the FTAA. He was also the Ministry of Agriculture representative in the Brazil Trade Defense Technical Group (GTDC) and in the MERCOSUL Trade Defense and Safeguards Committee (CDCS). He currently works as General Coordinator of Studies and Agricultural Information at the Secretariat.

JONATHAN HEPBURN is Programme Officer for Agriculture at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Before joining ICTSD, he represented Oxfam International to the World Bank and IMF in Washington DC, and led Oxfam’s global campaign on aid, debt and the Millennium Development Goals. Previously, he worked on trade, development and human rights issues with the Quaker UN Office, Geneva. He has written on various issues related to politics, rights and public policy, including on trade and development issues, development financing, intellectual property rules, and food, agriculture and biodiversity.

MASAYOSHI HONMA is a professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics, in the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, at the University of Tokyo. He graduated from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (BSc.), completed his Master’s Degree at the Graduate School of Agriculture of the University of Tokyo, and completed his Doctorate at the Graduate School of Economics, Iowa State University, USA (Ph.D).

HARRY HUYTON is currently a policy advisor at the Environment Agency, the environmental protection agency for England and Wales, a member of the Network of European Environmental Protection Agencies. He works on land use, climate change and renewable energy policy. Previously, he was agriculture policy officer for the RSPB, BirdLife International partner in the UK, where he led on CAP reform policy and was the Chair of the BirdLife International agriculture taskforce. He has an MSc. in Environmental Technology and a BSc. in Natural Sciences.

TIMOTHY JOSLING is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford’s Food Research Institute. Professor Josling’s work focuses on agricultural trade and food policy issues, as well as economic integration, with a special emphasis on the World Trade Organization, the EU Common Agricultural Policy and US-EU trade relations. Before taking his current positions at Stanford University, he has held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

RICARDO MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ is co-founder and Chief Executive of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). His previous experience encompasses responsibility in a diverse range of capacities at the interface of international trade and sustainable development. These include: General Director and co-founder, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (1994 to 1996, Quito); Chargé d’Affaires, Counsellor and First Secretary, Colombian Mission to the International Organizations in Geneva (1990 to 1994); Principal Advisor, Colombian Minister of Economic Development (1988 to 1990, Bogotá); Consultant to UNDTCP (1988, Bangkok); and Chief of Administration, Office of the President of Colombia (1987 to 1998, Bogotá). Mr Meléndez-Ortiz was a negotiator and delegate for Colombia in the Uruguay Round, the UNCED process, UNCTAD VIII, the Climate Change Convention, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol and bilateral trade and investment-related negotiation processes. He also acted as Spokesperson for the G-77 in several fora and served as Chair of the UN Standing Committees on Commodities and Trade Preferences.

ANDRÉ NASSAR is Director-General of the Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE), Brazil. His main fields of work at ICONE have included multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiations; modeling of quantitative scenarios and supply and demand long-term projections of agricultural products; agricultural trade policies in developed and developing countries; and WTO disputes. He was a Member of the Brazilian Technical Group for the Doha Round agricultural negotiations coordinated by the Ministries of External Relations and Agriculture of the Brazilian Government, and a Collaborator for the G-20 as an expert in agricultural world markets, at the request of the Brazilian Government. He served as an expert in projections and international market analysis for sugar and ethanol of COPERSUCAR (2002 to 2003), and has conducted a number of consultancies and research projects with the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, FAO, UNDP and other international organizations.

SAULO NOGUEIRA is a senior researcher and coordinator for emerging markets at the Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE). He is the coordinator of the Asia Latin America Agri-Food Research Network (ALARN) project, and works on agricultural trade policies in developing countries, as well as the WTO negotiations. He was a researcher at the Institute for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy (ITCD) in Washington; a trade analyst and manager at the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (ABIMAQ); and did internships at various international organizations like the OAS (Organization of American States), the CTBTO (Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization), and UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization).

ABENA ODURO is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she has worked since 1989. She teaches macroeconomic theory and international economics at the undergraduate level, and international trade theory and international economic relations at the postgraduate level. From 1999 to 2004 she worked at the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), Ghana, first as Project Officer and later as a Core Research Fellow; in 2003, she also served as visiting lecturer at the Council on African Studies at Yale University. Oduro has published widely on trade, poverty and development, undertaken a number of research consultancies, and delivered public lectures on the areas of her expertise.

DAVID ORDEN is professor and director of the Global Issues Initiative of Virginia Tech’s Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, Alexandria, Virginia, and Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC. He is engaged in active research and public policy education programs on the economics and political economy of domestic support policies, international trade negotiations and technical barriers to trade. Orden has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia (1990), chairman of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (1996 and 1997) and Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1998 to 1999).

MARIA ELBA RODRIGUEZ-ALCALÁ is currently an instructor and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Until December of 2007 Maria worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE), Brazil. As a member of the research team in ICONE, Maria also coordinated a regional project in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the agricultural private sector in the MERCOSUR countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Prior to joining ICONE, she worked as an academic coordinator in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Washington State University.

NÉSTOR STANCANELLI is a former negotiator who represented Argentina during the Uruguay Round. He is currently Director of the Centro de Economía Internacional (CEI), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ambassador Stancanelli’s publications have addressed a range of issues related to trade liberalization, and include various papers on the effect of the Uruguay Round on economic development in Latin America.

RONALD STEENBLIK’S professional career spans three decades, in industry, academia, the US federal government and inter-governmental organizations, generally on policy issues related to natural resources, the environment or trade. At the time of writing the chapter for this volume he was Director of Research for the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), a program of the International Institute for Sustainable Development which aims to improve information on the extent and effects of subsidies (especially those that are harming developing countries or the environment). Prior to joining the IISD, he was a Senior Trade Policy Analyst in the Trade Directorate of the OECD. In that capacity he made important contributions to the WTO negotiations on environmental goods and services, both through the research he undertook on specific topics and as a participant in WTO symposiums and meetings of the WTO’s Committee on Trade and Environment.

ALAN SWINBANK is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Centre for Agricultural Strategy at the University of Reading. His research focuses on the farm and food policies of the EU, and the process of agricultural and food trade liberalization in the WTO. Recent papers have appeared in the European Review of Agricultural Economics, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of World Trade and the Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy. His most recent book, co-edited with Richard Tranter, is A Bond Scheme for Common Agricultural Policy Reform (CABI Publishing, 2004). Recent research has been funded by the European Commission (under Frameworks V and VI), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

CHARLES TSAI holds degrees from the University of California, Davis, the London School of Economics and the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. His professional experiences span the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO); the Board of Foreign Trade in Chinese Taipei working with WTO accession-related issues; the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation (AITIC) in Geneva assisting less-advantaged countries to advance their interests in WTO negotiations; and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where his research has resulted in publications spanning agriculture, regional trading arrangements, regulatory reform, trade in healthcare services between developed and developing countries and issues relating to trade and structural adjustment.

ANN TUTWILER is the Managing Director for Trade and Development at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to joining Hewlett, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Food and Agriculture Trade Policy Council, an organization that she co-founded in 1987. The International Policy Council is dedicated to developing and advocating policies that support an efficient and open global food system and sustainable production and distribution of safe, accessible food supplies. She served as Associate Director of the Council from its inception until 1992. She has published dozens of articles and edited two books on international agriculture policies, and speaks widely on a variety of agricultural policy issues.

JIANMIN XIE is a Counselor for Agriculture Negotiations in the Permanent Mission of China to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Previously, he worked as the Division Director of the Investment Planning Division under the Department of Development and Planning in the Ministry of Agriculture, mainly in charge of Agriculture Investment Planning and Policy Analysis on agriculture. He studied economics at the People’s University of China in Beijing from 1982 to 1986, where he later obtained his Masters Degree in Economics in 2002. He studied at the University of Oxford under a visiting scholarship in 1991.

KAZUHITO YAMASHITA graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, before earning masters degrees in public administration and applied economics from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in agriculture from the University of Tokyo. He has held a number of senior positions in government, including serving as Director of the GATT Affairs Division, Director of the Rural Development Division, Deputy Director-General of the Rural Development Bureau in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and as Counsellor in the Japanese Mission to the European Union. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).