Brainstorming Meeting of the LDC Group in the WTO1

Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN and Other
International Organizations, Geneva
Brainstorming Meeting of the LDC Group in the WTO1
Operationalising the LDC Services Waiver
3 – 4 October 2013
List of Participants
1
This meeting has been convened with the support of the Trade Advocacy Fund (TAF) of the United
Kingdom, a financial contribution from the Permanent Mission of Australia to the WTO towards
participation of LDCs and ICTSD’s core donors.
PARTICIPANTS
Bangladesh
1. Neser Ahmed
Director, WTO Cell, Ministry of
Commerce
2. Mostafa Abid Khan
Director, Bangladesh Foreign Trade
Institute (BFTI)
Bénin
3. Abognonhou Coovi Aimé V.
Metawanou
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, de
l'Intégration Africaine,
de la Francophonie et des Béninois de
l'Extérieur (MAEIAFBE)
Direction des Relations Economiques et
Commerciales Internationales (DRECI)
4. Kocou Zéphryn Pognon
Chef du Service des Relations
Commerciales Internationales
Bhutan
5. Penday Dorji
Import Licence Officer, Department of
Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs
6. Sonam Tashi
Chief, Planning and Policy Division
Burkina Faso
7. Banse Manbila
8. Mamadou Ouattara
Chamber of Commerce
Burundi
9. Guillaume Nkeshimana
10. Desiré Nshimirimana
Director Général de la Société des
Services Informatiques du Burundi,
Softcenter
Central African Republic
11. Janvier Ngawen
12. Dieudonne Ouefio
Point Focal OMC, Membre du Groupe
Techniques sur les Services au Comité
Régional de Négociations APE-AC-UE
Expert sur le Commerce de Services
Comoros
13. Said Abdou Salim
Democratic Republic of Congo
14. Robert Emene Bakili
Director of Trade in Services
15. Magambo Chakirwa
Chef de Division au Ministère de
L'Economie et Commerce
Djibouti
16. Hassan Moussa
Direction du Commerce Intérieur et
Normalisation
Ethiopia
17. Lisanework Gorfu
Director, Multilateral Trade Relations,
Minstry of Trade
18. Geremew Ayalew Haile
Director General for Trade Relations
and Negotiation, Minstry of Trade
Guinea
19. Mr. Oury Diallo
Responsable chargé de l'infastructure et
de l'environnement à l'Agence de la
Régulation des Postes
Télécommunications
Haiti
20. Henry Cassion
Directeur, Turbo Consulting
21. Chenet St-Vil
Coordonnateur Général du Bureau de
Coordiantion et de Suivi des Accords
Laos
22. Nongchith Khambounheuang
Deputy Director of Trade in Services
Division, Foreign Trade Policy
Department
23. Xaysomphet Norasing
Deputy Director General of Economic
Research Institute for Trade
34. Aneth Simwela
Senior Trade Officer, Ministry of
Industry and Trade
Lesotho
24. Fako Hakane
Lesotho Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
Togo
35. Kossi Abiguime
Chargé d'Etudes a la Direction du
Commerce Exterieur
25. Motheba Malibeng
Chief Trade Development Officer,
Minstry of Trade, Industry,
Cooperatives and Marketing
36. Kamala Bidialou
Madagascar
26. Saida Manantsara
Chef de Service de la Promotion et du
Développement du Commerce de
Service
Uganda
38. Bategana Laurean Butubira
Senior Commercial Officer, External
Trade Department, Minstry of Trade,
Industry and Cooperatives
27. Berthin Zisy
Directeur de la Promotion des échanges
Extérieurs
Malawi
28. Charity Msonzo
Deputiy Director, Ministry of Industry
and Trade
Nepal
29. Ravi Bhattarai
Under Secretary, Ministry of Commerce
and Supplies
Rwanda
30. Alphonsine Niyigena
International Transport Services
Sudan
31. Lamis Kamal Hassan
Staff member at the National Secretariat
for WTO Affairs
32. Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
Head Division of Policies and
Programms and responsible for Sudan
documents to the WTO at the National
Secreteriat for WTO Affairs/Ministery
of Trade
Tanzania
33. Christopher Japhet Kazeri
Senior Trade Officer, Ministry of
Industry and Trade
37. Komla Nyédji Galley
Directeur du Commerce Extérieur
Vanuatu
39. Joe Pakoa Lui
Senior Trade Officer, Department of
External Trade
Experts and Resource Persons:
40. Luis Abugattas
Jordan Services Modernisation Program
41. Rolf Adlung
Counsellor, Services Division, WTO
42. Vinaye Dey Ancharaz
Senior Economist, ICTSD
43. Gibriel Bah
Senior Partner at Bandirabeh Associates
44. Christophe Bellman
Prigrammes Director, ICTSD
45. Annet Blank
Head, LDC Unit, WTO
46. Jane Drake-Brockmann
Senior Services Expert, ITC
47. Ramesh Chaitoo
ILEAP
48. Sékou Doumbouya
Programme Officer, ILEAP
49. Sofia Flensborg
Manager Strategic Partnerships, ICTSD
50. Alexander Florent
Office Manager, WTIA
51. Arti Grover
Senior Economist, The World Bank
52. Kiranne Guddoy
Managing Editor, Bridges Africa, ICTSD
53. Françoise Guei
Associate- Legal Advisor, WTIA
54. Jennifer Hawkins
Associate, WTIA
55. Hadil Hijazi
Director, WTIA
56. Dale Honeck
Counsellor, Services Division, WTO
57. Maura Ada Iliuteanu
Junior Associate WTIA
58. Markus Jelitto
Counsellor, WTO
59. Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh
Director, Services Division, WTO
60. Peter Morrison
Counsellor, Services Division, WTO
61. Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz
Chief Executive, ICTSD
62. Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Directeur Général, AGIR &
PROMOUVOIR
63. Anne-Katrin Pfister
Programme Officer, ICTSD
64. David Primack
Executive Director, ILEAP
65. Hannes Schloemann
Director, WTIA
66. Sacha Silva
Associate- Senior Economist, WTIA
67. Sherry Stephenson
Senior Associate, ICTSD
68. Deborah Vorhies
Managing Director, Director of
Operations, ICTSD