Sergei Sutyrin

• Professor and World Economy Department Head at St.Petersburg State University (SPSU), WTO chair holder since 2010;
• In addition to his professorship at SPSU Sutyrin has delivered lectures in several Universities in Finland, Germany, Japan;
• Research interests of Prof. Sutyrin include Russian foreign economic relations, international trading system and global governance;
• He is an author of more than 200 books,   pamphlets and articles in different fields of economic theory;
• Sutyrin has been involved in many research and educational projects funded in particular by EU, DAAD, CIDA, International Trading Center;

Alexandra Koval

• Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, St. Petersburg State University;
• Scientist in Charge of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network programme ‘Power and Region in a Multipolar Order’ at St. Petersburg State University;
• Author or co-author nearly 60 articles and book chapters in Russian, English, Spanish, Portuguese;
• Visiting researcher at the UNCTAD, State University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Barcelona, and German Institute of Global and Area Studies;
• Research member in the WTO Chair and the «Jean Monnet – European module» projects.

Pierre Sauvé

• Pierre Sauvé is a Senior Trade Specialist within the World Bank Group's Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice. Based in the World Bank's Geneva office, he manages interactions with Geneva-based trade institutions and the donor community and represents the Bank in key trade-governance related committees at the OECD, in Paris. He served most recently as the WTI's Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships.  He also serves as an academic advisor and a faculty member of the University of Barcelona’s LLM programme in international economic law and policy (IELPO) and is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium. He has held visiting professor appointments at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques’ (Sciences-Po) in Paris, France, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
• He served as a senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993C2002, a period during which he was a faculty member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the OECD, he served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations. He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland as well as the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland.
• Mr Sauvé was educated in economics and international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in Canada, as well as at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. He has advised the governments of a number of OECD and developing countries and served as a consultant to leading regional and multilateral agencies involved in trade, finance and development. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade and on the Advisory Board of the WTO Academic Chairs program.   

Marc Auboin

• Marc Auboin is a Counsellor in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO, and a member of the WTO Task Force on the Finance Crisis and Trade.
• Previously he held several positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was Deputy-Secretary General of the Monetary Committee of the European Union, worked for the French Treasury. Mr. Auboin holds a PhD in Economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and was a research fellow at the London School of Economics, and Yale University.
• He now lectures at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland and at CERDI in France, and used to lecture at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Sciences-po Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Oxford. He published pieces of research on trade and finance issues in the IMF's World Economic Outlook, and in WTO Discussion and Working Paper Series.

Huang Weiping

• Huang Weiping, born in 1951, Beijing. Jean Monnet Chair Professor?Director of School of Economics, Study Center for the World Economy at Renmin University. He received his master's degree in Development Economics at ISVE, Italy (1987), and Ph.D. at Renmin University (2001.
• In 1993-2002 was the Chairman of Department of International Economics and Dean of the School of Economics of Renmin University. He was a Senior Fulbright scholar at Stanford University (1993-1994), a visiting professor at Dickinson College, USA (1995) and Federico II, Italy (1996).
• Currently holds the position of a board member of the Chinese Society for the World Economy, International Trade Association, International Finance Association, Association of European Studies in China and a membership in the China Committee of PECC. His research interests include regional economic integration in the EU and APEC, the international trade policy. Major publications include “Toward Globalization”, “Four Tigers in East Asia”(in Chinese), “A Win-Win World in the Future” (in English).