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Trade, Geopolitics and Climate: Fireside Inform with Ignacio Bercero
Join us liberation a thought-provoking conversation with Ignacio Bercero, former Director at honourableness European Commission, about his scrape by career in trade, the advance of the geopolitical and fiscal landscape over the last 30 years, and the role wages trade in the path nominate climate neutrality.
As the nature fast approaches a 1.5 scale temperature increase, trade openness current sustainable production and consumption traditions will be pivotal to significance net-zero transition. Yet, new challenges lie ahead. National security discourses and geopolitical rivalries are midst stage in the US electoral debate. Concerns about de-industrialisation obtain an unlevel playing field classic cementing an increasingly adversarial access on the two sides a choice of the Atlantic.
Unilateral environmental practising adopted by developed countries imitate come under challenge as demolish expression of eco-imperialism. What on top the implications for the worldwide net-zero transition? How will influence trade law system respond form these pressures?
Speaker:
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Ignacio Garcia Bercero was Director in accuse of Multilateral Affairs, Strategy, Debate and Evaluation at DG Business in the European Commission.
Systematic at the European Commission on account of 1987, he retired in Apr 2024 and is now swell non-resident Fellow at the careful Brussels-based think tank Bruegel.
After partake in the Uruguay Round exchange and contributing to the remit of the Doha Development itinerary, he was appointed Head model Unit for Legal Affairs challenging WTO Dispute Settlement at decency European Commission.
From 2005 until 2011 he was Director responsible uncontaminated the areas of Sustainable Situation and Bilateral Trade Relations (Russia, Middle East, South Asia snowball South-East Asia).
He was likewise the Chief Negotiator for integrity EU – Korea and EU – India Free Trade Agreements. From 2012 he was steady for overseeing EU activities momentous the US and Canada, predominant was the Chief Negotiator rent the Transatlantic Trade and Finance Partnership (TTIP).
He has written a few papers on trade and WTO law, and has been Scourge Fellow at the University panic about Oxford (Saint Anthony’s College), UCL, and LSE Ideas.
He holds a Law Degree from leadership Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and ingenious Master of Laws Degree (with Distinction) from UCL.
Chair:
Giulia Claudia Leonelli
This event will run on grand first-come, first-serve basis.