Trade for Sustainable Development Forum 2017Partnerships: Which model is yours?

25-27 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland

PROGRAMME

The Trade for Sustainable Development Forum is held in conjunction with the WTO Public Forum.

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The Trade for Sustainable Development Forum brings together business people, researchers, standards organizations and international trade officials to discuss trends in sustainable value chains and voluntary sustainability standards.

Organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC), this year’s event explores the theme of partnerships:

• Why are some models more successful in achieving sustainability objectives? • What are common elements of success when standards organizations, policy makers and private companies work well together? • What can we expect from successful collaboration?• What issues should we consider when engaging in new partnerships?

Sustainable, Together

In today’s world, no one can ‘go it alone’. With a complex sustainability landscape, businesses, NGOs, governments and producers realize that partnering with each other is key to achieving sustainability outcomes in global value chains.

ITC’s Trade for Sustainable Programme (T4SD) is built on partnership principles. Whether through its project with the multi-company Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform – the web-based Farm Sustainability Assessment platform – or the multi-stakeholder Chocothon initiative, its partnerships create market opportunities and facilitate systemic change. The public sector is also engaging in new partnerships, such as through sustainable public procurement or consumer information programmes.

Shared understanding of partnership models can promote approaches that really work. Neutral brokers enhance transparency, or facilitate action where collaboration is not always easy.

At a glance: Trade for Sustainable Development Forum 2017

Monday, 25 September, ITC headquarters – Discuss partnership models

Interactive panels: Discuss partnership models from the viewpoint of standards organizations, business and policymakers.

Mini-hackathon on partnerships for sustainable development: Explore innovative solutions to challenges presented in the sessions.

Evening cocktail: A time to exchange business cards and follow up on the day.

Tuesday, 26 September, ITC headquarters – Joint Partners Day

Partners Day, with the German Development Institute (D.I.E.) and the UN Environment: Interactive sessions with D.I.E.’s Managing Global Governance Network and UN Environment’s 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production

ITC Sustainability Map platform

New research on sustainability standards, with the European University Institute: Interactive presentation of a new report.

Wednesday, 27 September, WTO Public Forum – High-level panel

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PROGRAMME - Monday 25 SeptemberInternational Trade Centre

08:30-09:15 REGISTRATION

Morning sessions

09:15-09:30 OPENING ADDRESSSpeaker Dorothy Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre

09:30-11:00 SESSION 1

Partnership Models: Standards Organizations

Where are the overlaps and common baselines in partnership models between or with standards organizations? What are the failures from which we can all learn?

Speakers Carlos Busquets, Director of Public Policy, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

Christian Ewert, Director General, Foreign Trade Association

Patrick Mallet, Director of Innovations, ISEAL Alliance

Reinhard Weissinger, Senior Expert, Research and Education, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Weijia Xia, Vice-Director of the Technology Development Department, China Association for Standardization

Moderator Eliza Anyangwe, Writer, editor and moderator, The Guardian/The Nzinga Effect

11:00-11:30 Coffee and networking break

11:30-13:00 SESSION 2 Partnership Models: Big Business

Many innovative private sector-led joint initiatives exist to develop sustainable value chains. What are the incentives for private sector engagement? Which obstacles do businesses face in collaboration? How can producers and SMEs in developing countries make the best use of the results, innovations, successes?

Speakers Rogerio Correa, Desk-Officer of the Brazilian Platform of Voluntary Sustainability Standards, Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO)

David Lawrence, Executive Director, AIM-Progress

Nick Major, President, European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC)

Matthew Reddy, Director of Forest Solutions Group and Climate Smart Agriculture, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Sylvia Wisniwski, Managing Director, Finance in Motion/eco.business Fund

Moderator Eliza Anyangwe, Writer, editor and moderator, The Guardian/The Nzinga Effect

13:00-14:00 Lunch break (not provided)

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Afternoon sessions

14:00-14:30 Keynote Speech

Welcome remarks by ITC Executive Director Arancha González

Speaker Gilbert F. Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development

14:30-15:45 SESSION 3 Partnership Models: Policymakers

What kind of public-private partnerships for sustainability should we expect to see more of in the future involving policymakers at the national and international level?

Speakers Vera Baumann, Senior Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Cristina Fedato, Team Leader on Sustainable Infrastructure, Products and Services, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production

Melvin Spreij, Secretary of the Standards and Trade Development Facility Secretariat, World Trade Organization

Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy Secretary General of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Vice Chairman and General Secretary of Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development

Moderator Eliza Anyangwe, Writer, editor and moderator, The Guardian/The Nzinga Effect

15:45-16:00 Coffee and networking break

16:00-17:30 SESSION 4 - MINI-HACKATHON Partnerships for Sustainable Development

How to scale up cross-sector collaboration? Participants form groups and work together to explore solutions to challenges presented during the day.

Mentors Gabriela Alvarez, Co-Founder of Colcocoa & Researcher and Director at Latitude

Dan Gyinaye Poku, Technical Advisor at Hovver & Co-Founder of Sesa Mu Farmers’ Initiative

Leontien Hasselman-Plugge, CEO, SIM Supply Chain Information Management

Julia Lernoud, Data and Information Manager, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Facilitators Sandra Cabrera de Leicht, Sustainability Standards and Value Chains Advisor, International Trade Centre

Aimee Russillo, Managing Partner, LiSeed Consulting

17:30-19:00 COCKTAIL RECEPTION

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08:15-09:00 REGISTRATION

Morning sessions

09:00-12:30 SESSION 5 - organized by the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Drivers and Constraints for Adopting Sustainability Standards in SMEs

Organized by the German Development Institute as part of its Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network, two sessions will focus on the specific challenges and opportunities faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and the related demand for finance. Supported by the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards.

09:00-10:30 Managing Global Governance: Country Studies

The session presents new original studies of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa, authored by MGG partners in the respective countries.

Welcome Address by Rob Skidmore, Chief of the Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains Section, International Trade Centre and Vera Baumann, Senior Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Co-chairs Ana Carolina Mendes dos Santos, Environmental Analyst, Brazilian Ministry of Environment

Thomas Fues, Director of the Managing Global Governance Programme, German Development Institute

Speakers Christoph Sommer, Researcher, German Development Institute

André Coelho, Senior Project Manager, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Marcelo Nunes, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Jiahan Cao, Research Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

Amrita Goldar, Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

Shikhar Jain, Principal Counsellor, Confederation of Indian Industries

Yose Damuri, Head of the Department of Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Bagus Santoso, Founder and Senior Researcher, DEFINIT

Peter Draper, Managing Director, Tutwa Consulting Group

Anna Ngarachu, Researcher, Tutwa Consulting Group

Manish Pande, Joint Director and Head of Project Analysis and Documentation Division, Quality Council of India

10:30-11:00 Coffee and networking break

11:00-12:30 Managing Global Governance: Commentaries

Standards organizations, VSS platforms as well as other experts will comment on the conclusions and insights generated by the country studies.

Co-chairs Archna Negi, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Sven Grimm, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute

Speakers Rogerio Correa, Desk-Officer of the Brazilian Platform of Voluntary Sustainability Standards, Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO)

Xin Liu, Director of Division of International Organizations, Standardization Administration of China

Weijia Xia, Vice-Director of Technology Development Department, China Association for Standardization

Aderina Uli Panggabean, Deputy Director, National Standardization Agency of Indonesia

Antonio Muñoz Trejo, Standardization Manager, Mexican Society of Standardization and Certification (NORMEX)

PROGRAMME - Tuesday 26 SeptemberInternational Trade Centre

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Matlhale Peter, Senior Manager, South African Bureau of Standards

Manish Pande, Joint Director and Head of Project Analysis and Documentation Division, Quality Council of India

Anja von Moltke, Head of the Environment and Trade Unit, UN Environment

Reinhard Weissinger, Senior Expert, Research and Education, International Organization for Standardization

Siglinde Kaiser, Project Coordinator, German Institute for Standardization

Ulrich Hoffmann, Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Wrap-up Peter Wolff, Head of World Economy and Development Financing Department, German Development Institute

By invitation only T4SD Technical Working Group Meeting

12:30-13:30 Lunch break (not provided)

Afternoon sessions

OPEN HOUSE: TRADE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

13:30-14:30 ITC Sustainability Map platform: launch

Welcome remarks by ITC Executive Director Arancha González and the Head of the Swiss Permanent Mission to the WTO and EFTA Ambassador Didier Chambovey

Presenter Gregory Sampson, Solutions Architect, International Trade Centre

14:30-15:30 ITC-EUI presentation of a new research study

Organized by ITC and the European University Institute, the session is devoted to the launch of the second joint ITC-EUI report on voluntary sustainability standards (VSS). The report focuses on the issue of fragmentation in sustainable markets and identifies markets where fragmentation is high based on Standards Map data. It also gives an overview of coordination models, which standards can take up to reduce fragmentation

Presenters Matteo Fiorini, Research Associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute

Philip Schleifer, Assistant Professor of Transnational Governance, University of Amsterdam

Regina Taimasova, Advisor on Sustainability Standards & Value Chains, International Trade Centre

Discussant Patrick Mallet, Director of Innovations, ISEAL Alliance

15:30-15:45 Coffee and networking break

15:45-17:45 SESSION 6 - organized by the UN’s 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption & Production

Bringing Sustainable Food Systems and Consumer Information Together

Who and what is needed to build a sustainable food system? What information best engages consumers? Leading institutions of the 10YFP’s Sustainable Food Systems and Consumer Information Programmes will present new research into existing sustainability standards; lessons on developing multi-stakeholder agreements; concepts around diets, biodiversity impact measurement, nutrition and trade; and new Guidelines for providing product sustainability information. Specific partnerships, building on those of the 10YFP and ITC, will be proposed and encouraged.

Speakers Marina Bortoletti, Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Associate Programme Officer, UN Environment

Beatriz Martins Carneiro, Programme Management Officer, UN Environment

Martina Fleckenstein, Director, Agriculture & Land Use Change, WWF Germany

Anne Roulin, VP Nutrition, Health & Wellness and Sustainability within R&D, Nestlé

Joshua Wickerham, Manager, Policy & Outreach, ISEAL Alliance

Joseph Wozniak, Head of the Trade for Sustainable Development Programme, International Trade Centre

Moderators Charles Arden-Clarke, Head of the 10YFP Secretariat, UN Environment

Ian Fenn, Sustainable Consumption Manager, Consumers International

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11:30-13:00 High-level Session

Out of the Box: Innovative Partnerships for Inclusive Trade

How to create global partnerships for ‘good trade’? Truly effective collaboration is like a black box: examples are scarce, outcomes are uncertain and barriers have not yet been broken down. Sustainability is however high on today’s agenda, and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) offer a platform for future partnerships among the multitude of actors in international trade as a vehicle for sustainable and inclusive economic development. The Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the International Trade Centre (ITC) bring together leaders on sustainability issues around one table to propose partnership actions for sustainable and inclusive trade.

Speakers Marten van den Berg, Director-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The NetherlandsArancha González, Executive Director, International Trade CentreAik Hoe Lim, Director of the Trade and Environment Division, World Trade OrganizationDan Rees, Director, Better Work ProgrammeSteven Stone, Chief of the Resources and Markets Branch, UN EnvironmentPeter White, Vice President and COO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Moderator Eliza Anyangwe, Writer, editor and moderator, The Guardian/The Nzinga Effect

13:00-14:00 Lunch and networking break (coffee and sandwiches provided)

PROGRAMME - Wednesday 27 SeptemberWorld Trade Organization, Room W

WTOLes Pâquis

ITC

Rue de Lausanne

Rue de Montbrilliant

Mont Blanc bridge

train station

Place de Nations

CONFERENCE LOCATIONS

Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 September - International Trade Centre (ITC), rue Montbrilliant 54-56

Wednesday 27 September - World Trade Organization (WTO), Rue de Lausanne 154

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MINI HACKATHONPartnerships for sustainable development

In its 4th edition of the T4SD Forum, ITC has placed innovation at the centre of all discussions, identifying and exploring best lessons of partnerships: what works or does not work, how innovative approaches have transformed the way companies, NGOs, policy-makers are collaborating and developing new partnerships.

The Mini-Hackathon is a first of its kind interactive and dynamic session where 4 mentors will drive extensive brainstorming around several themes to address the challenge of creating transparent supply chains. Consumers, governments, and

companies are demanding details about the systems and sources that deliver the goods. Transparency in supply chains drives impact, improves resiliency in the face of disruptions and encourages innovation as new needs are identified in different regions. This requires a strong technology platform, alignment on data structures, access and benefits to all players. These in turn build strong relationships between partners and in financial performance – ensuring the long term economic viability of social and environmentally sustainable supply chains.

How: Using technology for information flow and access from producers to consumers

Main challenges: access and level playing field- benefits to all (links to #3)

Mentor: Dan Gyinaye Poku, Hovver

• Equitable access & opportunity to the technology (pre-competitive approach).

• Barriers to access to technology for supply chain actors in developing countries.

• Who decides what technology is available and implemented? • Ensuring maximum confidentiality and neutrality in the

process of information flow.

Companies share data to streamline processes, gain or maintain business relations and to achieve sustainability commitments.

How: Transparency in supply chains using common definitions of sustainability – collaboration between supply chain partners and enabling trust

Main challenges: trust, legal and ethical considerations

Mentor: Leontien Hasselman-Plugge, SIM Supply Chain Information Management

• Data privacy: Ownership or trustworthiness of data? • Data management: Master supply chain definitions• Data confidentiality: Data beyond the first tier

The necessary step to achieve positive impacts.

How: Transparency to drive inclusive supply chains

Main challenges: systemic (tenure, illiteracy), lack of access to inputs and infrastructure and relevant data

Mentor: Gabriela Alvarez, Colcocoa

• How can transparency and information work to support smallholders?

• What are the keys to empower producers to achieve positive impacts?

• How do young people and ‘rural-millennials’ understand transparency and use of information?

How: Transparency on sustainability market data to promote achievement of sustainability commitments among companies, identify gaps and opportunities.

Main challenges: requires a strong technology platform (linked to #1), aligned data structures (#2)

Mentor: Julia Lernoud, FiBL

• Multiple certification (how to collect the data? how to handle it? Potential approaches for when not all data is available)

• Lack of common reporting systems – #2 indicators, consistency, data gaps, etc.

• Significant gaps in supply chain data - Retail sales and international trade statistics do not match or not even available.

• Data management (quality checks)

Participants to the T4SD Forum will be kindly asked to join one of the 4 groups, and brainstorm about innovative models and solutions related to the challenge and its impacts on

partnerships. After 45 minutes of brainstorming, mentors will report back the findings to the plenary and online voting be made to identify the best models and ideas shared by the participants.

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Outcome 1: Leveraging technology to drive sustainability

Outcome 2: Making data sharing work

Outcome 3: Smallholders empowerment

Outcome 4: Transparency to create more evidence based decision making

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Dorothy Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC)Ms. Tembo has served as Deputy Executive Director of ITC since 2014. Ms. Tembo has more than 30 years of experience in trade and development. She previously served as Executive Director of the multi-donor funded Enhanced Integrated Framework Programme based at the World Trade Organization. During her tenure, she played an active role in addressing the trade-related and supply side constraints in the world’s least developed countries. She has held various positions in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia including the position of Chief Trade Negotiator and Director of Foreign Trade from 2004 to 2008. Ms. Tembo holds a degree in Economics from the University of Zambia.

BIOGRAPHIES Speakers and Moderators

Eliza Anyangwe, Writer, editor and moderator, The Guardian / The Nzinga EffectEliza Anyangwe is a Cameroon-born, London-based writer, editor and moderator. After seven years at the Guardian (and a short stint at CNN International) she set up The Nzinga Effect, a platform to tell the stories of women from Africa and the diaspora. A guest lecturer on the international communications programme at IULM in Milan, Eliza has also spoken on panels from SXSW Interactive in Austin, to the Web We Want festival in London. As a moderator, she has worked for organizations including Dell, Southbank Centre, Stockholm International Water Institute, ITC, Ecosoc and Government of Belgium and many others. Eliza is fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. (Moderator at Sessions 1, 2, 3 and the High-level panel)

Carlos Busquets, Director of Public Policy, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition Carlos brings over 12 years of global public policy experience with a focus on sustainability, climate change, international trade and investment. He has worked in both the public and private sectors, including helping lead policy advocacy for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and as a former international trade negotiator at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Carlos has an MA from the School of International Service at American University and speaks English, Spanish and French.

Christian Ewert, Director General, Foreign Trade Association (FTA)Christian Ewert is the Director General of FTA. FTA represents over 2,000 retailers, importers and brands to promote and defend free trade and supports their business, providing information and practical solutions towards sustainability in the international supply chain. Christian previously worked as President and CEO of ICTI CARE Foundation, the International Council of Toy Industries’ (ICTI) programme to promote social compliance in the supply chain producing for the toy and children’s products industry. He previously worked as the Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board of Zapf Creation, Europe’s leading manufacturer of branded play & function, collector dolls and doll accessories. For over 10 years he was Managing Director and Chairman of North Sails Lanka, the leading manufacturer of products for the windsurfing industry. He had previously held the position of the CEO of Mistral Sports, the market leader in the windsurfing industry.

Patrick Mallet, Director of Innovations, ISEAL AlliancePatrick Mallet is Director of Innovations at ISEAL Alliance, the global network for sustainability standards. Patrick founded ISEAL and served as its first Executive Director until 2005. He is responsible for ISEAL’s Codes of Good Practice that support effective standards and certification, and for ISEAL’s learning communities to encourage standards systems to improve their practices. Through ISEAL’s Innovations Programme, Patrick is helping to define what effective sustainability standards will look like in the future. He lives in British Columbia, Canada. (Speaker also at the Open House: T4SD)

Opening AddressMonday 25 September

SESSION 1 - Partnership Models: Standards Organizations

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Rogerio Correa, Desk-Officer of the Brazillian Platform of Voluntary Sustainability Standards, Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO)

Mr. Rogerio Correa holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master and Doctorate in Science, Chemical and Biochemical Process. also from the Federal University. He has been working as a researcher for INMETRO during the last fifteen years with expertise in issues related to the agreement on technical barriers to trade such as trade negotiations, quality management, product certification and technical cooperation. At present, he is the desk-officer of the Brazilian Platform of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and advisor of the President of the Brazilian Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade. Since 2004 he has been taking part as an expert in the Subcommittee of UNECE/ECOSOC Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. (Speaker also at Session 5)

David Lawrence, Executive Director, AIM-Progress David is an expert in enabling organizations to be more effective in their sustainability ambitions through collaborating with others. He is currently Executive Director and acting Chairman of AIM-Progress, the 44-company FMCG sector task-force working collaboratively to improve responsible sourcing practices in their common supply chains. He is also a ‘non-exec’ board member of SEDEX, the ‘not-for-profit’ supplier data exchange organisation. Additionally, David is a Senior Associate at Cambridge University, Institute for Sustainability Leadership, helping develop and deliver material for their Post-Graduate Certificate and Masters programmes. Not only does he work as the Senior Procurement Advisor for BSR on their Centre for Sustainable Procurement, he is also an associate with The Partnering Initiative, who have aligned objectives to improve sustainability through improving collaboration.

Nick Major, President, European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) Nick graduated from Harper Adams University in the UK in 1985 with a BSc in Agricultural Technology and joined BOCM PAULS the same year. In July 2012, BOCM PAULS became part of ForFarmers, the market leading animal feed business in Europe. Nick is now ForFarmers Corporate Affairs Director, after having fulfilled a number of roles within the company throughout the years in sales, general management and marketing across all species groups. In June 2017, Nick was elected as President of FEFAC, the European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation, on whose behalf he also chairs the PEF Technical Secretariat and the GFLI EU project group. At UK level he is Chairman of AIC (Agricultural Industries Confederation), a member of the AIC Feed Executive Committee, chair of the AIC Sustainability Committee and a Non-Executive Director of CIELivestock Limited, the recently formed livestock innovation centre in the UK.

Matthew Reddy, Director of Forest Solutions Group and Climate Smart Agriculture, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Before joining WBCSD, Matthew Reddy was CEO of the International River Foundation and worked in leadership and governance roles with numerous NGOs tackling sensitive sector issues in hydropower, mining, forestry, oil and gas. With a background in business, Reddy held a financial services license and ran the environmental trading desk for Australia’s largest non-bank stockbroker and oversaw trading and risk management for a publicly listed forestry company. Reddy was first exposed to the forestry sector during his time managing private investment with Landcare, Australia’s largest environmental organization, where he worked in partnership with the public and private sector on landscape scale initiatives.

SESSION 2 - Partnership Models: Big Business

Reinhard Weissinger, Senior Expert, Research and Education, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Mr. Weissinger is Senior Expert, Research and Education at the Central Secretariat of ISO in Geneva. He worked for several years in the international and the information department of the German Institute for Standardization and for six years in China for the German Society for International Cooperation in the bilateral Chinese-German project. He joined ISO in 1994, working for ISO’s main technical policy body, the Technical Management Board, and as business leader in the development of Internet-based working processes supporting standards development. He is a lecturer at the University of Geneva in the Master’s programme Standardization, Social Regulation, and Sustainable Development. He holds a Master degree in Chinese Studies and Linguistics of the University of Tübingen and a Master of Business Administration of the European University. (Speaker also at Session 5)

Weijia Xia, Vice-Director of the Technology Department, China Association for Standardization (CAS)Vice Director of CAS, working for the Secretariat of Chinese National Platform of Voluntary Sustainability Standards. She mostly undertakes international communication of standardization works for CAS, as the Chinese secretary of Pacific Area Standards Congress and Northeast Asia Standards Cooperation Forum. She graduated from Tsinghua University and received a graduate degree from Edinburgh University. (Speaker also at Session 5)

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Vera Baumann, Senior Policy Officer, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Vera Baumann is engaged as Senior Policy Advisor at BMZ since 2009. After three years in the Communication Department, she served from 2012 till 2016 as Head of Development Cooperation at the German Embassy in Tirana. Since July 2016, she is responsible for communications on sustainable textile value chains and the The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, a multistakeholder initiative founded in 2014, whose members generate already 50% of retail sales in Germany. She finished her studies in Social and Economic Geography, Business Administration and Cultural Sciences in 2008. After working for UNDP in Mongolia, she was prepared for the Public Service in the Postgraduate Programme of the German Development Institute. (Speaker also at Session 5)

Cristina Fedato, Team Leader on Sustainable Infastructure, Products and Services, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)

Cristina is Team Leader on Sustainable Infrastructure, Products and Services at the CSCP and has over 15 years of experience in the fields of Sustainability, CSR, Sustainable Procurement and Sustainable Supply Chains. She is a mechanical engineer and holds an MBA, with training on participant-centered learning at the Harvard Business School. Her background combines education, research and consulting activities. She worked with organizations like Avina, GIZ, GRI, IADB, ISTR, RedEAmerica, SEKN, WBCSD, among others. She developed and implemented projects for many national and multinational companies from various industries including Agribusiness, Chemical, Construction, Cosmetics, Energy, Finance, Food, Health Services, Logistics, Metal and Mining, Textile, Waste Management. She has published many papers in Brazil, United States, Europe and Canada.

Melvin Spreij, Secretary of the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), World Trade Organization (WTO)

Melvin heads up the STDF Secretariat. He oversees STDF’s Trust Fund, totalling more than US$55 million since 2006 and supporting over 160 projects in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Leading a team of five experts, Melvin manages STDF’s global knowledge platform, working closely with STDF’s partner agencies (FAO, OIE, World Bank, WHO and WTO), donors, developing country governments and the public and private sector. Melvin has longstanding expertise in trade, development, agriculture and law, as a Counsellor in the Agriculture and Commodities Division of the WTO, and previously at FAO and other international organizations. He holds a civil and business law degree from the State University Leiden and has published widely on leading policy areas covering sustainable development and natural resources.

SESSION 3 - Partnership Models: Policymakers

Sylvia Wisniwski, Managing Director, Finance in Motion/eco.business FundSylvia Wisniwski serves as a Managing Director at Finance in Motion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. During her tenure, Finance in Motion has developed into one of the world’s leading impact asset managers with around EUR 1.7 billion in assets under management and offices in 16 countries. Her expertise in blended finance models, structured funds, and financing the SME, agricultural, and conservation sectors has proven instrumental in the creation of unique impact investment funds. Sylvia has more than 25 years of experience in development finance in over 30 countries. Starting her career in German development cooperation (GIZ), she has held various management positions at international organizations and consulting companies. Sylvia holds both an M.A. in Political Science and Sociology and an MBA from Tübingen University as well as an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Miami, Florida.

Keynote SpeechArancha González, Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC)

Arancha González has served as Executive Director of ITC, the joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, since September 2013. Before joining ITC, Ms. González was Chief of Staff to World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy from 2005 to 2013. During her tenure at the WTO, she played an active role in launching the Aid for Trade initiative. Prior to working at the WTO, Ms. González held several positions at the European Commission, and between 2002 and 2004, was the European Commission spokeswoman for trade and adviser to the European Union Trade Commissioner. Ms. González co-chairs the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on the Future of Trade and Investment. (Speaker also at the Open House: T4SD and the High-level Session)

Gilbert F. Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)Gilbert F. Houngbo became the sixth President of IFAD on 1 April 2017. Born and raised in rural Togo, Houngbo has spent more than 30 years working to improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people. He previously served as Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization where he led field operations in more than 100 countries. From 2008-2012, he was Prime Minister of the Republic of Togo. He has also held numerous leadership positions at the United Nations Development Programme.

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Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy Secretary General, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) & Vice Chairman and General Secretary, Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development (VBCSD)

Joining VCCI since 1992, Mr. Nguyen Quang Vinh has had 24 years of management experience in international relations and business sustainable development. During which, Vinh devoted his career path to VCCI’s International Relations Department for 13 years, being responsible for building and maintaining relationships with partners, and networks with individuals and organisations. He participated in the establishment of the Office for Business Sustainable Development of VCCI in 2006, the Global Compact Vietnam Network in 2007 and the VBCSD in 2010. Currently he is Deputy Secretary General of VCCI cum Vice Chairman and General Secretary of VBCSD. Vinh graduated from National Economics University, Finance & Banking Department and completed his MBA in International Business and Export Management in 1998 from Cass Business School, London, UK.

Gabriela Alvarez, Co-Founder of Colcocoa & Researcher and Director at LatitudeGabriela Alvarez is a researcher and director of Latitude, a consulting firm specialized in sustainable development and in corporate strategy. She is also co-founder of Colcocoa, a specialty cocoa trading company and Hacienda La Tentación, professional cocoa farm in Colombia. The linked ventures strive to be catalysts in the transformation of cocoa farming from a traditionally subsistence activity to a professionalized, entrepreneurial, thriving vocation for entrepreneurs, workers and communities. She is a frequent advisor to the International Trade Centre and to the German Cooperation Agency giz. Gabriela has been a lecturer in Sustainability, Strategy and Innovation at HEC, University of Lausanne’s Executive MBA for the past ten years. Gabriela holds a Doctorate degree in Management from the University of Cranfield, an MBA degree from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an Economics degree from the University of Buenos Aires.

Sandra Cabrera de Leicht, Sustainability Standards and Value Chains Advisor, International Trade Centre (ITC)

Sandra Cabrera-Leicht has over 9 years’ experience in international trade. She holds a Master’s degree in Finance and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the IHEID (Switzerland). She speaks English and Spanish. She works as a Sustainability Standards and Value Chains Advisor for the ITC Trade for Sustainable Development programme. She is responsible for analysing the sustainability standards and developing the Standards Database of Standards Map; developing and coordinating projects and collaborations with partner organizations on the use of information from the Standards Database for capacity building programmes and customized tools. She has delivered presentations in coordination with main UN technical agencies and trainings in the field in Asian, African and Latin-American countries.

Dan Gyinaye Poku, Technical Advisor at Hovver & Co-founder of Sesa Mu Farmers’ InitiativeDan Poku is a Technical Advisor at Hovver, an ag-tech startup helping farmers gather, share and act on data using drone tech solutions. Also, he is a co-founder of a non-profit organization, Sesa Mu Farmers’ Initiative, a farmer cooperative in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Dan holds a Computer Science degree from Ashesi University and has conducted extensive research on using low cost sensors to analyze crop health. Dan specializes in image processing, general field survey activities and aerial mapping. He has mapped 2000+ acres of mostly smallholder farms across 5 administrative regions in Ghana. He has adequate experience working with rice, cocoa, pineapple, moringa, maize and vegetable farmers and continues to learn more on creating better tech solutions which suits the needs of farmers and managers in the industry.

Leontien Hasselman-Plugge, Chief Executive Officer, SIM Supply Chain Information ManagementLeontien has over 15 years of experience in the field of sustainability and impact measurement. She started at the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and has worked for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for ten years specializing in measuring non-financial performance and impact in global supply chains. Currently as the CEO of SIM, her main aim is helping retailers and brands in the FMCG sector understanding their supply chains and using these insights to create change in environmental and social conditions.

Julia Lernoud, Data and Information Manager, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)Julia Lernoud is a Data and Information Manager of FiBL. For the last five years, she has been collaborating in the collection of organic market data worldwide and the production of the annual report The World of Organic Agriculture. Since 2014, she has been collecting key market data on Voluntary Sustainability Standards worldwide in FiBL, in partnership with the International Trade Centre and the State of Sustainability Initiatives.

SESSION 4 - Mini-Hackathon

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Jiahan Cao, Research Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)Dr. Cao works as a research fellow at SIIS since July 2011. His research interests include sustainability standards in global value chains, U.S. energy and environment policies, non-traditional security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the political and economic dynamics in Central Eurasia. Dr. Cao had research and training experiences at several world renowned think thanks, such as Hoover Institution, Stanford University (June-August 2009), German Development Institute (June-December 2014), Stockholm Environment Institute (October-December 2014) and Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu (February-March 2017). Since 2015, he has been co-executive editor of China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, the flagship journal of SIIS.

André Coelho, Senior Project Manager, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)Mr. Coelho serves as Senior Project Manager at FGV, a major Brazilian think thank specialized in social sciences. He plays an active role managing national and international projects related to social economic and environmental impacts of people movements around the world. Mr. Coelho represented the organization in the recent T20 process and has produced strategic studies regarding sustainability standards and use of environmental services. He is also a professor for the International Program in Business at the Brazilian School for Business Administration and has academic focus in sustainability and travel industry. He is alumni from the Global Governance Academy, PHD candidate in Public Administration, with Masters in Public Administration, and bachelor in Social Sciences.

Peter Draper, Managing Director, Tutwa Consulting GroupPeter is Managing Director of Tutwa Consulting Group. He is Senior Research Fellow the South African Institute of International Affairs; part-time Lecturer at Wits Business School; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis; member and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Global Trade and FDI system; member of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; and Associated Researcher at the German Development Institute. He is also a recipient of an honorary Doctorate degree from the Friederich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Previously he worked in South Africa’s national Department of Trade and Industry and as an academic teaching economic history and political economy.

Thomas Fues, Director of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Thomas Fues, trained as an economist, has been with DIE as Senior Researcher since 2004. His main research interests include global governance, sustainable value chains, Southern powers, United Nations and international development cooperation. In addition to his research tasks, Dr. Fues heads the training department at DIE. He is Director of the MGG Programme which facilitates capacity building, research, dialogue and policy advice with a network of partners from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa. In previous stages of his career he worked for the German parliament, the Institute of Peace and Development (University Duisburg-Essen), the Government of Northrhein-Westphalia, the German Advisory Council on Global Change and as a free-lance consultant.

Amrita Goldar, Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)Ms. Amrita Goldar is a Fellow at ICRIER. Within ICRIER, she has worked on and led projects related to G-20 negotiations, Climate Change impacts on urban economic competitiveness, renewable energy technologies for telecom towers, and impacts of rationalizing fossil fuel subsidies in India. Her ongoing projects include working on municipal bonds for financing urban solar rooftop projects and studying the impact of renewable policies on jobs created in the economy and industrial competitiveness. She has previously worked as a Research Associate at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). She has a Masters degree in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has recently submitted her Doctoral Thesis to the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on Bilateral Investment Agreements and its impact on India bound FDI.

SESSION 5 - German Development Institute sessionTuesday 26 September

Aimee Russillo, Managing Partner, LiSeed ConsultingAimee Russillo has 25 years of experience in international sustainable development in monitoring for impact, organizational development and strategic planning. She specializes in market based tools including corporate programs, voluntary sustainability standards and international frameworks to drive impact. She works with governments, businesses and civil society organization using practical, results based solutions to real world conditions. Aimee is a global citizen having lived and worked in several continents and is now based in Kentucky, USA. She holds a joint MBA in International Business and Juris Doctor.

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Sven Grimm, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Sven Grimm is a senior researcher at DIE in Bonn, Germany, and Extraordinary Associate Professor of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. At DIE, Sven is coordinator of the institute’s work on rising powers. He is a political scientist with a strong interest in South-South cooperation, focusing particularly on external partners’ cooperation with African states. He has led research projects e.g. on emerging economies’ African ventures and their implications for European international cooperation. He has published widely on both the European Union and on China’s external relations (with Africa) and was director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, between 2010 and 2014.

Ulrich Hoffmann, Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)Ulrich Hoffmann is an economist, who was a university professor in Berlin before joining the UN secretariat, where he worked for 30 years. He is one of the intellectual fathers of the UN Forum on Sustainability Standards and coordinated the launching of the Forum and its main activity clusters. He also laid the groundwork for and co-managed the FAO-IFOAM-UNCTAD International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture. Apart from work on sustainability standards, Mr. Hoffmann was the editor-in-chief of UNCTAD’s recurrent Trade and Environment Review, was co-author of UNCTAD’s regular World Commodity Survey and published extensively on climate change economics. He is now a senior associate with IISD.

Shikhar Jain, Principal Counsellor, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)Mr. Jain has 22 years of experience as business sustainability expert. His responsibilities include policy dialogue & consultation with government & various stakeholder groups on sustainability issues of strategic importance to businesses. Expertise includes training, advisory and consulting on aligning sustainability approach within business models through leadership & strategy planning, implementation of sustainability framework across the value chains for global brands. Mr. Jain represents CII in various committees and working groups of the Bureau of Indian Standards, AccountAbility, UK, and Global reporting Initiative and has been involved with development of international standards ISO 26000; Guidance on Social Responsibility, GRI G4 Guidelines & AA 1000 SES on Stakeholder Engagement.

Xin Liu, Director of Division of International Organizations, Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

Xin Liu has been involved in national and sector standards research, development and related work for more than ten years in National Testing and Inspection Center for Rubber Products and China National Institute of Standardization. She has served as the Senior Engineer to the WTO/TBT Notification and Enquiry Center of China for nine years. As the director of International Organizations Division of International Cooperation Department of SAC and secretary assistant of Chinese National Committee of IEC, Xin Liu is responsible for organizing, managing and coordinating the national mirror committees to participating in the international standardization activities of ISO and IEC.

Anja von Moltke, Head of the Environment and Trade Unit, UN Environment Anja heads the Environment and Trade Unit in UN Environment. In this function, she works closely with many partners within and outside the UN to assist countries make trade policies more sustainable, inclusive and environmentally friendly. She has extensive experience in providing technical assistance and policy support in areas related to climate change, energy, biodiversity and fisheries. She had led for many years UN Environment’s work on economic instruments and environmental fiscal reform. Prior to joining UN Environment, Anja served the German government as a negotiator on climate change and co-designed the Kyoto Protocol. She has also worked for several other agencies of the UN, such as the CBD Secretariat, UNFCCC and UNCTAD. Anja holds a Master in Environment and Development from Cambridge University and a Bachelor in Management from the London School of Economics.

Archna Negi, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)Dr. Archna Negi is Associate Professor at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament of the School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi, India. She teaches several courses at the M.Phil., M.A. and B.A. levels relating to international negotiations, international organization and world politics and also supervises M.Phil. and Ph.D level research on the above-mentioned themes. Her research interests include international law, diplomacy and organization, with a special focus on international trade and environment. Dr Negi has a Masters in Political Science and a Ph.D. in International Law. She has presented papers in various national and international conferences and authored several publications. She is currently co-directing a project titled “Social and Environmental Standards for the World Economy” at the German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany.

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Anna Ngarachu, Researcher, Tutwa Consulting GroupAnna Ngarachu is a Researcher at Tutwa Consulting Group. She is responsible for implementing trade research, analysis, writing reports and assisting with the implementation of projects. Anna previously worked in the field of economic data analysis at BMI Research (A Fitch Group Company) focusing on working with the macroeconomic data of countries and building sub-national databases, mastering Excel skills. She has also trained in the field of social science research under the South African Labour and Development Research Unit. Anna holds an Honours degree in Economic Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, is an HBX Core Credentials Holder holding a Certificate from the Harvard Business School and was recognized as a finalist at the 2014 Nedbank-Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition in her postgraduate year.

Marcelo Nunes, Professor, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroProfessor Nunes teaches at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, in the Department of Domestic Economics and Hotel Management. He holds an MSc degree in Business Management and has 5 years of experience carrying out consulting projects and market analysis for the private sector and public institutions. From 2012 through 2015 he served at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, one of the most prominent think tanks in Latin America, working in projects for the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, the Brazilian Service for Small and Medium Enterprises (Sebrae) and the European Travel Commission, among others.

Manish Pande, Joint Director and Head of Project Analysis and Documentation Division, Quality Council of India (QCI)

Dr. Manish Pande holds a doctorate in forestry from the Forest Research Institute and worked with the various organizations including Worldwide Fund for Nature – India, SGS – a Swiss based MNC and now is with Quality Council of India as Joint Director. He holds the Gold Medal at Masters in Forestry. He has over 20 years of experience in different capacities in research, environmental, voluntary and conformity assessment. He has been in the conformity assessment now for over 15 years in handling various private, voluntary and international standards. He is instrumental in formulation and implementation of voluntary certification schemes for governmental and intergovernmental bodies for Schemes including SAARC GAP, Yoga Personnel Certification, City Ranking etc. He is has worked as a consultant for FAO and UNCTAD for designing/execution of project/study and is trained as an assessor for accreditation as per ISO 17065, 17020 and 17024 standards.

Aderina Uli Panggabean, Deputy Director, National Standardization Agency of Indonesia (BSN)Ms. Panggabean serves as the Deputy Director for International Cooperation on Standardization of BSN since June 2013. She is responsible in matters concerning bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation in the fields of standardization. This includes negotiation in bilateral and regional FTA fora as well as Indonesian engagement in ISO, IEC, and other international organizations on standardization. In addition, it is also her responsibilities to conduct the functions of BSN as Notification Body and Enquiry Point of Indonesia to WTO. Before joining BSN, she worked for the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture for the period 1989-2013. She held several positions at the Ministry and lastly focusing on international cooperation in agriculture sector. She was also member of the Indonesian Task Force for WTO Negotiations on Agriculture.

Matlhale Peter, Senior Manager, South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)Matlhale Peter has been working for SABS for over 15 years in various roles. He is currently a senior manager at SABS, looking after standards development processes and support. He has spent a number of years as a standards writer, having been involved in the development of standards for solar water heaters amongst many. He progressed to manage the department developing construction standards, where he chaired an ISO developing countries’ forum on sustainability standards focusing on water utilities.

Ana Carolina Mendes dos Santos, Environmental Analyst, Brazilian Ministry of EnvironmentMs. Santos works at the Ministry of Environment. For four years she has been engaged on the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) agenda, being the focal point for many initiatives and participating in the elaboration of the Brazilian Action Plan for SCP. From 2012 to 2014 she became responsible for the agenda on gender issues and women’s empowerment in the Ministry, coordinating the Ministry’s Internal Committee on Gender and providing technical support to the Brazilian Women Leaders Network for Sustainability. Since 2015 she has been giving technical support to the International Project Portfolio of the Biodiversity Secretariat. She is one of the MGG alumni and has been collaborating on the International Project on Sustainability Standards.

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Bagus Santoso, Founder and Senior Researcher, DEFINITDr. Santoso is the founder and senior–researcher and –consultant at DEFINIT, an institution that specializes in a high quality policy advice, research, and capacity building. His expertise is in the area of international macroeconomics, development finance, financial inclusion, banking, public finance, and quantitative methods. He has worked in various researches and policy formulations with various international institutions, such as the World Bank, USAID, AusAID, and Asian Development Bank, as well as with various governmental/regulatory institutions, such as Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bank Indonesia, Financial Service Authority, and Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation. Dr. Santoso has also managed and run professional trainings in the area of his expertise mentioned above.

Rob Skidmore, Chief of the Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains Section, International Trade Centre (ITC)

Rob Skidmore is Chief of Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains at ITC where he leads the Trade for Sustainable Development and Empowering Women to Trade programmes. Each of these programmes focuses on building market-driven solutions to achieve development outcomes with a special emphasis on achieving scale through innovative use of technology. Flagship initiatives include Sustainability Map and Shetrades. Prior to his current position, Rob led sector development across industries at ITC with a personal focus on coffee and services. In another life, Rob managed private sector development initiatives for US-based consulting firms including PwC, DAI and Abt Associates, and worked as a butcher. He holds an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a BA from the University of Wisconsin.

Christoph Sommer, Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Mr. Sommer is a researcher at DIE since December 2016. He currently works on sustainability standards, global value chains and small and medium-sized enterprises. For this reason, Mr. Sommer was involved in a study mandated by the SME Finance Subgroup of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion analyzing how to foster sustainable supply chains. Before joining DIE, Mr. Sommer did his Master degree at the University of Tuebingen and Yale University, specializing in microfinance, development economics and trade.

Antonio Muñoz Trejo, Standardization Manager, Mexican Society of Standardization and Certification (NORMEX)

Currently he is Standardization Manager NORMEX in México. He has 24 years of experience in Standardization, National, Regional and International Standardization (ISO and Codex Alimentarius), and in Energy Management Systems and Energy Savings. He is also a representative of Mexico, in the Technical Committees of the International Standardization Organization (ISO). In which stand out the Committee of the ISO TC 301 - Energy Management and Energy Savings and the ISO TC 180 - Solar Energy and TC 34 Food Products. He has extensive experience in international work, from 2010 to date, also has attended training courses and has given courses and conferences in the field of Energy Management System based on the International Standard ISO 50001- Energy Management, in 15 countries. In addition, has attended meetings and workshops organized by the Asia Pacific Cooperation (APEC).

Peter Wolff, Head of World Economy and Development Financing Department, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Peter Wolff has worked for 30 years in international development cooperation and development research. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Freie Universität Berlin for a thesis on the World Bank’s and IMF’s structural adjustment lending in the 1980s. His areas of interest include Global Economic Governance, Development financing, Development co-operation with emerging markets. He regularly lectures on Global Economic Governance and development finance. He was economic advisor in the framework of German-Vietnamese development co-operation at the Central Institute for Economic Management, Hanoi, from 1997 - 2000.

Open House: Trade for Sustainable Development Didier Chambovey, Ambassador, Swiss Permanent Mission to the WTO and EFTA

Ambassador Didier Chambovey (*1961), Dr. oec. head of the Swiss Permanent Mission to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva since 1st September 2016. Previously, Federal Council Ambassador and Delegate for Trade Agreements, and head of the World Trade Division in the Foreign Economic Affairs Directorate. From 2006 to 2011, he was Deputy Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). From 1998 to 2006 he served as deputy head of the Swiss Permanent Mission to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva. Before his appointment as section head in the WTO Division in 1993, he worked in the field of economic cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Didier Chambovey joined the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs in 1987 as scientific adviser in the GATT Division.

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Charles Arden-Clarke, Head of the 10YFP Secretariat, UN Environment Charles Arden-Clarke trained as a zoologist and ecologist and initially worked for the Political Ecology Research Group in the UK, primarily on the environmental impacts of nuclear power and differing farming systems. Between 1990 and 1999 he developed and led WWF International’s Trade and Investment programme, focusing on the environmental impacts of WTO rules and negotiations, related ISO standards and the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment.He has worked for UNEP since January 2000, initially on the effects of trade liberalisation on the environment and the relationship between WTO rules and multilateral environmental agreements. Since 2004 he has worked at the Economy Division in Paris, mostly on sustainable consumption and production (SCP). He is currently Head of the Secretariat of the Ten Year Framework of Programmes on SCP Patterns (the “10YFP”).

Marina Bortoletti, Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Associate Programme Officer, UN Environment

Marina Bortoletti joined the UN Environment Brazil Office in 2009, being involved in the implementation and management of Global Environment Facility and Sustainable Consumption and Production projects in Brazil. In May 2017, she became the Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Associate Programme Officer of the UN Environment Economy Division in Paris, working with projects that aims to promote enhanced governance and coherence in sustainable food systems policies and value chains in the context of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme of the 10-Year Framework for Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP).

Matteo Fiorini, Research Associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute (EUI)

Matteo Fiorini is Research Associate in the Global Economics – Trade, Investment and Development research area of the Global Governance Programme. He works as an economist on services trade and trade policy. Matteo holds a PhD in Economics and a Master of Research in Economics from EUI. He also holds a Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. Prior to joining the RSCAS/GGP he held various short term positions as a research assistant for the Migration Policy Centre (EUI, Florence), as an intern in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO (Geneva) and as a research assistant at Bocconi University.

Gregory Sampson, Solutions Architect, International Trade Centre (ITC)Gregory has over ten years’ experience working in international trade and sustainable development. He has been working at ITC as a Solutions Architect since 2013, under the Trade for Sustainable Development Programme, designing, implementing and coordinating the development and integration of solutions to track, share and monitor the sustainability of global value chains. Prior to 2013, he was a Market Analyst, coordinating and supervising trainings and capacity building on ITC’s Market Analysis Tools. Before joining ITC, Gregory worked for the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, as a consultant for the Director General. Gregory holds a BSC in Economics and a Master’s degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

Philip Schleifer, Assistant Professor of Transnational Governance, University of Amsterdam (UvA)Philip Schleifer is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Governance UvA. His research interests lie in the areas of global environmental politics, international political economy, and Corporate Social Responsibility. His current projects focus on the institutional design and effectiveness of voluntary sustainability standards. Philip holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Regina Taimasova, Advisor on Sustainability Standards & Value Chains, International Trade Centre (ITC)

Regina Taimasova is an Advisor on Sustainability Standards & Value Chains at ITC. She works on analysing and referencing voluntary sustainability standards in the Standards Map database, she is also involved in developing customized projects such as standards’ benchmarking tools, producer assessments and provides trainings on standards and market access in developing countries. Previously she worked at the World Trade Organization in Trade Policies Review Division. Regina holds an MSc Degree in International Economics from Essex University, UK.

SESSION 6 - UN’s 10-Year Framework Programmes session

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Beatriz Martins Carneiro, Programme Management Officer, UN EnvironmentBeatriz has 15 years of experience in environmental law, advocacy and sustainable development, having worked in law firms, government agencies and NGO’s. During her career, she carried out activities related to policy design, implementation of programs and policies, as well as institutional representation. At UN Environment, Beatriz is responsible for leading the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes, operations and other activities of the Unit related to Ecolabelling and Consumer Information. She coordinates the implementation of the Ecolabelling component of the Sustainable Public Procurement and Ecolabelling (SPELL) project, and of the project “Advancing and Measuring Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) for a Low-Carbon Economy in Middle-Income and Newly Industrialized Countries”. She holds a Master Degree in Comparative Law from the University of Florida in the US and a Master Degree in Environmental Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France.

Ian Fenn, Sustainable Consumption Manager, Consumers InternationalIan leads Consumers International’s (CI) work on sustainable consumption. He represents CI as a co-lead of the UN’s ‘10YFP Consumer Information Programme for Sustainable Consumption and Production’, which undertakes and supports work to provide clear, reliable information to consumers on the sustainability of goods and services, globally. Before joining CI, Ian worked for a number of years in sustainability policy and advocacy, for UK and international NGOs and the UK government.

Martina Fleckenstein, Director of Agriculture & Land Use Change, WWF GermanyMartina Fleckenstein is Director of Agriculture & Land Use Change at WWF Germany (World Wide Fund for Nature). Martina has worked on standards and international commodity markets for several years and has extensive experience working on sustainability standards and multi-stakeholder platforms. She is running projects on sustainable land use management including sustainable forest and agriculture production in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Martina is heading work on sustainable consumption at national and international level for WWF. She is biologist and has worked for WWF since 1992.

Anne Roulin, VP Nutrition, Health & Wellness and Sustainability within R&D, NestléAnne Roulin is responsible for Nutrition, Health & Wellness and Sustainability within Nestlé Research and reports to the Chief Technology Officer. In this role she works across the global R&D organisation to embed NHW and sustainability at the earliest phase of the product development cycle, taking into account the entire value chain. The overall objective is to develop products that are tastier, healthier and with a lower environmental impact. Previously she was Global Head of Packaging for Nestlé and prior to Nestlé she founded and built up a company specialised in Package Development, after spending 10 years with Tetra Pak in Switzerland, the USA & Italy. She has a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D in Materials Science.

Joshua Wickerham, Policy & Outreach Manager, ISEAL AllianceISEAL is the backbone organisation for sustainability standards, recognised for facilitating global consensus on good practices for the innovative development and implementation of voluntary sustainability standards. Joshua leads ISEAL’s work to position credible sustainability standards as enablers of sustainable trade. He also develops and showcases government case studies on the use of sustainability standards, with the goal of building partnerships and guidance for policy makers that can lead to deeper sustainability impacts. Before joining ISEAL, Joshua worked with GIZ, ITC, UNCTAD, UN Environment, and WWF. Since 2010, Joshua has advised ISEAL’s work in China. He joined ISEAL full time in 2015. Joshua studied history at the University of Michigan and international relations at the University of California San Diego.

Joseph Wozniak, Head of the Trade for Sustainable Development Programme, International Trade Centre (ITC)

Joseph Wozniak has over 15 years’ experience in international trade and development. He heads the Trade for Sustainable Development programme (T4SD) at ITC where he is responsible for the development and implementation of the Sustainability Map and T4SD’s related platforms and projects. Prior to ITC he worked for KPMG LLP and as a Senior Economist with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the Agency’s portfolio and the development of analytical tools for the impact assessment of OPIC’s emerging markets investment projects in sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and consumer products.

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Marten van den Berg, Director-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

Mr. Van den Berg studied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His first entry into public life was as policy advisor of General Technology Policy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 1995, he was Deputy Chairman of the Working Group Technology Transfer at UNCTAD. In 1996, he was appointed Adjunct Secretary General at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and in 1998 as Deputy Director Spatial Economic Policy. In 2001, he was appointed Economic Minister at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington. In 2004, he returned to the Ministry of Economic Affairs as Deputy Director General of Foreign Economic Relations and in 2008 he was also appointed Director of Economic Diplomacy. In 2012, he became Deputy Director General Foreign Economic Relations. Mid-August 2015 he was appointed Director General Foreign Economic Relations.

Aik Hoe Lim, Director of the Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)Director of the Trade and Environment Division at the World Trade Organization in charge of its work on trade and environment at the WTO, as well as on the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. Prior to that, he was Counsellor in the Trade in Services Division and Secretary to the Working Group on Domestic Regulation. He has served as Counsellor to two consecutive WTO Director-Generals (2001-2005) and was also Adviser to the Director General’s Consultative Group on “The Future of the WTO”. Before joining the WTO in 1999, he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the G-15 Summit Level Group of Developing Countries. He has also been a consultant on development and labour policies to the International Labour Organization and has worked in the field of urban environmental regeneration.

Dan Rees, Director, Better Work ProgrammeDan Rees is the Chief of Better Work, a partnership between the ILO and IFC that brings together government, employers, workers and international buyers to improve working conditions and competitiveness in the global garment industry. On behalf of ILO, Dan is currently the Chair of the Bangladesh Accord Steering Committee. He has played a lead role in facilitating the design and implementation of the Rana Plaza Arrangement to ensure that all victims of the Rana Plaza accident received fair compensation according to international standards for employment injury. From 1999-2010 Dan was the first Director of the UK based Ethical Trading Initiative and spearheaded its growth from start up to a field leader with respected international reputation in ethical trade. He has advised numerous governments’ international organisations and leading companies on improving working conditions in supply chains.

Steven Stone, Chief of the Resources and Markets Branch, UN EnvironmentSteven directs a team dedicated to furthering the knowledge base and support to countries on environmental and resource economics. He has helped to incubate the Green Economy Initiative, the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE). Prior to joining UN Environment, he worked at IDB, serving in a number of capacities from Resource Economist in Washington, to Environmental Specialist in the Bank’s offices in both Jamaica and Ecuador, to Country Representative in Honduras. Before joining IDB, Steven led field research in Brazil as part of the team at the Instituto do Homen e Meio Ambiente. He earned an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Resource Economics from Cornell University. In addition to his ongoing responsibilities at UN Environment, he also serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Environmental Studies at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Peter White, Vice President and COO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)Peter has been with WBCSD since 2013, and joined after 22 years developing the sustainability program at Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer goods company. From 2006 – 2013 Peter was P&G’s Director for Global Sustainability, creator and Chair of the Sustainability Leadership Council and a key architect of the company’s long-term sustainability vision and 2020 goals. During that time, he was the WBCSD Liaison Delegate for P&G, having been involved in the work of WBCSD since 1997. Peter is also a Visiting Professor at the Newcastle University Institute for Sustainability. Prior to joining P&G, he held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Oxford, California and Arizona, and taught in Nigeria with the UK development charity Voluntary Service Overseas. He holds a doctorate in Chemical Ecology from Oxford University, and Masters degrees in Zoology (Oxford) and Applied Hydrobiology (London).

High-Level Session

Wednesday 27 September

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Nearby Suggestions for Lunch

1. ITC’s Cafeteria

2. Kiosque Pirane:

La Voie-Creuse 3

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3. Coop Café:

Rue de Montbrillant 90

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