TradeExperettes

Listen to Maria V. Sokolova, Alisa DiCaprio, Nicole Bivens Collinson, and Zyra Quirante discuss about their research on women leaders in international organizations.  The research was inspired by the TradeExperettes blog that Maria, Alisa and Nicole wrote in 2020, available here:  https://www.tradeexperettes.org/blog/articles/is-it-time-for-women-leaders-in-international-organizations

In this episode members of the Trade Experettes provide highlights from 2021 and wishes for 2022.

Meet two members of the Trade Experettes advisory board!  Cecilia Malmström and Debra Steger discuss the importance of mentoring and share their reasons for joining our organization as advisors.

Learn more at https://www.tradeexperettes.org

Ingrid Berglund, Advisor on trade policy at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, discusses why turning inwards in the face of COVID-19 is not a winning strategy - and why a return to ambitious multilateralism is.

Full article available here:  https://www.tradeexperettes.org/corona/an-ambitious-agenda-on-trade-and-multilateralism-is-needed-for-the-recovery-of-the-global-economy

Ebook is available here:  https://voxeu.org/content/covid-19-and-trade-policy-why-turning-inward-won-t-work

Leslie Griffin, Principal, Allinea LLC discusses her blog article published on the Trade Experettes COVID-19 blog.

Trade Facilitation and the Response to COVID-19: An Update on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement:

Reforms at the heart of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement are playing an important role in the response to the pandemic, including facilitating the import and export of critical medical products, addressing supply chain disruptions, and preparing economies for business resumption and resilience planning.

Blog series can be found here:  https://www.tradeexperettes.org/corona

A summary of the blog post "Black Swan and the 5 pirouettes the world is doing for Covid-19" by the author.

Original publication can be found here:  https://www.tradeexperettes.org/corona/black-swan-and-the-5-pirouettes-the-world-is-doing-for-covid-19

This episode features Alisa DiCaprio discussing the applications of block chain in trade and trade finance.  She has experience in both public and private sectors on trade, export promotion, labor issues, and designing and implementing development projects. She has worked in Cambodia, Chile, Finland, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the US. Her work on global digital economy issues include chairing committees at the ICC, BAFT, Trade Finance Advisory Council, and formerly the American Chamber of Commerce of Japan.  Listen in and be inspired about the future of blockchain and trade.

What is a trade experette? Trade + Expert + Female = #tradeexperette

Listen how the "trade experette" movement got started. Hanna Norberg explains the twitter conversation that sparked the development of a spectacular reference list of female experts for conference hosts and journalists to locate a diverse pool of experts on trade.

Maria (Mia) Åsenius talks about her role as the Head of Cabinet for the EU Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom.  She shares her career path experience, long-term interest in trade and instruments of the European trade policy.  She discusses the Commission's effort to communicate trade with civil society, the 'Trade for all' agenda, and the addition of sustainability chapters in trade agreements.  She also explains the current EU-US relations, negotiations with MERCOSUR countries and a need to improve the internal market for services in the EU

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/malmstrom/team_en

https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/october/tradoc_153846.pdf