Event Summary
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the 2024 Public Forum live from Geneva for a high-level panel with PIIE trade experts and welcome remarks by WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Trade as well as the WTO have been criticized in the largest economies as national security concerns. For billions of citizens of third nations, trade remains a source of opportunities, jobs, and peaceful development. How can these other member states move global trade and the WTO forward? This panel brings together insights and proposals from the perspective of four continents.
WELCOME
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General, World Trade Organization
MODERATOR
Richard Baldwin
Nonresident Senior Fellow, PIIE; Professor of International Economics, IMD Lausanne
DISCUSSANTS
Anabel González
Vice President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank; Former Trade Minister of Costa Rica
Cecilia Malmström
Nonresident Senior Fellow, PIIE; Former EU Trade Commissioner
Mari Pangestu
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, PIIE; Former Minister of Trade for Indonesia
Yi Xiaozhun
Former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization
Adam S. Posen
President, PIIE