Special Lecture: Free Trade and the New Protectionism
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English language
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Valentine Sendanyoye RUGWABIZA
Deputy Director-General, WTO - World Trade Organization, Geneva
| Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza currently occupies the post of Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization. In this role, which she took up in October 2005, Mrs. Sendanyoye Rugwabiza's responsibility covers development issues and policies generally; trade policy review; trade facilitation, and training and technical cooperation. She is also responsible for the WTO work programme on Aid for Trade. Prior to her current post, she served for three years as Ambassador of Rwanda to the United Nations in Geneva and Switzerland. Before joining the public service, Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza had a long career in the private sector, at national and international level, where she occupied several senior management positions, including in a Swiss multinational where she worked for eight years. | |
| Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza was a member of the economic and social Council of the President of Rwanda, a founding member of the Rwandan Women's Caucus, the association of women entrepreneurs, and the Rwandese federation of the private sector. |
Ph.D. Razeen SALLY
Director, ECIPE - European Centre for International Political Economy, Brussels and Singapore
| Dr Razeen Sally was also on the faciulty of the London School of Economics from 1993 to 2011. He will be professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, also attached to the Institute of South Asian Studies, both at the National University of Singapore, from January 2012. He is a Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Director, Trade Policy, at the Commonwealth Business Council in London. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and on the Advisory Board of the Cato Centre for Trade Policy Studies in Washington DC. Dr Razeen Sally is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a member of the Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. |
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz FISCHLER
President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1973-1979 | Research Assistant, Institute for Agricultural Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1978 | Doctorate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1979-1984 | Executive Assistant, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1985-1989 | Director, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1989-1994 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna |
| 1995-2004 | European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Brussels |
| 2005-2011 | Chairman, Ecosocial Forum Europe, Vienna |
| 2005-2015 | Chairman, RISE-Foundation, Brussels |
| 2014-2015 | Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EU scientific programme for Expo Milano 2015 |
| since 2012 | President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna |
| since 2016 | President, Board of Trustees to the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
