At present, expected conference attendees include:
(This list will be updated periodically as additional individuals confirm)
Appellate Body Members
- Ambassador Ujal Bhatia
- Thomas Graham (Chair)
- Professor Ricardo Ramirez-Hernandez
- Ambassador Shree Baboo Chekitan Servansing
- Professor Zhang Yuejiao
Former Appellate Body Members
- James Bacchus (Greenberg Traurig)
- Professor Jennifer Hillman (Georgetown & Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Dean Merit Janow (Columbia, School of Int’l & Public Affairs)
- Ambassador Shotaro Oshima (Institute for Int’l Economic Studies)
U.S. Government Officials – including former Cabinet-level
- Lawrence H. Summers (Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001)
- Susan Schwab (USTR, 2006-2009)
- Timothy Reif (General Counsel, USTR)
- Juan Millan (Assistant USTR for Monitoring & Enforcement)
- Paul Piquado (Assistant Secretary for Enforcement & Compliance, Department of Commerce)
- Meredith Broadbent (Chair, International Trade Commission)
- David Johanson (Commissioner, International Trade Commission)
- F. Scott Kieff (Commissioner, International Trade Commission)
- Rhonda Schmidtlein (Commissioner, International Trade Commission)
- Irving Williamson (Commissioner, International Trade Commission)
- William Busis (Deputy Assistant USTR for Monitoring & Enforcement)
- Daniel Bahar (Deputy Assistant USTR for Investment)
- Sam Kleiner (Senior Policy Advisor, USTR)
- Arun Venkataraman (Policy Director, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce)
- Robert Heilferty (Deputy Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement & Compliance, Department of Commerce)
- William Isasi (Assistant Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement & Compliance, Department of Commerce)
- Samuel Ruddy (Special Assistant, Office of Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce)
- Jason Kearns (U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways & Means)
- Katherine Tai (U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways & Means)
- Christopher Smart (National Economic Council)
WTO Secretariat
- Werner Zdouc (Appellate Body Secretariat, Director)
- Victoria Donaldson (Appellate Body Secretariat, Chief Legal Officer)
- Kaarlo Castren (Appellate Body Secretariat, Counsellor)
- Gabrielle Marceau (Legal Affairs Division, Counsellor; & University of Geneva)
- Judith Czako (Rules Division, Chief Legal Officer)
- Valeria Tiffer Hangen (Appellate Body Secretariat, Dispute Settlement Lawyer)
- Mengyi Wang (Legal Affairs Division, Legal Intern)
Government Officials – Other WTO Members
- Ambassador Timothy Groser (New Zealand)
- James Flett (European Commission)
- Mari Shimizu (Japan)
- Sylvie Tabet (Canada)
- Torsten Strom (Canada)
- Ian Burney (Canada)
- Christian Wegener (Denmark)
- Prayoth Benyasut (Thailand)
- Chet Trittanawong (Thailand)
Other International Organizations
- Anabel Gonzalez (World Bank)
- Aaditya Mattoo (World Bank)
- Martin Molinuevo (World Bank)
- Michele Ruta (World Bank)
Legal Practitioners
- William Barringer (Curtis)
- Thomas Beline (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Pablo Bentes (Steptoe & Johnson)
- Jan Bohanes (Advisory Centre on WTO Law)
- Timothy Brightbill (Wiley Rein)
- Jean-Rene Broussard (Akin Gump)
- Robert Cassidy (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- James Cannon (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Francisco Chacon (Zurcher Odio & Raven)
- Kichang Chung (Yoon & Yang)
- Chris Cochlin (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Philippe De Baere (Van Bael Bellis)
- Gerard Depayre (Independent practitioner)
- Mateo Diego-Fernandez (Agon)
- James Durling (Curtis)
- Susan Esserman (Steptoe)
- Todd Friedbacher (Sidley) (tentative)
- Michael Jacobson (Hogan Lovells)
- Gil Kaplan (King & Spalding)
- Timothy Keeler (Mayer Brown)
- Justin Keith (Greenberg Traurig)
- Christopher Kent (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Cameron Kerry (Sidley)
- Stephen Kho (Akin Gump)
- Kazumochi Kometani (Nishimura & Asahi)
- Duane Layton (Mayer Brown)
- Amy Lentz (Steptoe & Johnson)
- Charles Levy (Cassidy Levy Kent)
- Peter Lichtenbaum (Covington)
- Cynthia Liu (Akin Gump)
- Horacio Lopez-Portillo (Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda)
- Alberto Madero Rincon (King & Spalding)
- Warren Maruyama (Hogan Lovells)
- James Mendenhall (Sidley)
- Jorge Miranda (King & Spalding)
- David Morfesi (Morfesi Stewart)
- Steve Orava (King & Spalding)
- Rajib Pal (Sidley)
- Amelia Porges (Law Offices of Amelia Porges)
- Daniel Porter (Curtis)
- Ted Posner (Weil Gotshal)
- Jan-Yves Remy (Sidley)
- Laurent Ruessman (Fieldfisher)
- Ira Shapiro (Shapiro Global Strategies)
- Simon Schropp (Sidley)
- Tiffany Smith (Mayer Brown)
- Eric Solovy (Sidley)
- Gregory Spak (White & Case)
- Terence Stewart (Stewart & Stewart)
- Johann Strauss (Akin Gump)
- Naboth van den Broek (WilmerHale)
- Colette van der Ven (Sidley)
- Adrian Vazquez (Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda)
- Jasper Wauters (King & Spalding)
- Alan Wolff (Dentons)
- Alan Yanovich (Akin Gump)
- Matthew Yeo (Steptoe & Johnson)
- Jonathan Zielinski (Cassidy Levy Kent)
Academics
- Dukgeun Ahn (Seoul National)
- Adelaida Baghdasaryan (American Univ., Armenia)
- Marija Bartl (Amsterdam)
- Raj Bhala (Kansas)
- Emily Blanchard (Dartmouth)
- William Burke-White (Penn)
- Rachel Brewster (Duke)
- Anupam Chander (UC Davis)
- Adam Chilton (Chicago)
- Sungjoon Cho (IIT Chicago-Kent)
- Cosette Creamer (Boston / Minnesota)
- Sannoy Das (Jindal)
- William Davey (Illinois)
- Christina Davis (Princeton)
- Panagiotis Delimatsis (Tilburg)
- Jeffrey Dunoff (Temple)
- Michael Ewing-Chow (National Univ. of Singapore)
- Michael Gadbaw (Georgetown)
- David Gantz (Arizona)
- Henry Gao (Singapore Management)
- Oren Gross (Minnesota) (tentative)
- Robert Howse (NYU)
- David Kennedy (Harvard)
- Harold Koh (Yale)
- Nicolas Lamp (Queen’s)
- Robert Lawrence (Harvard)
- Ji Li (Rutgers)
- Odette Lienau (Cornell / Harvard)
- Patrick Low (HKU & Asia Global Institute)
- Giovanni Maggi (Yale)
- Kirill Molodyko (Higher School of Economics University)
- James Nedumpura (Jindal)
- Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State)
- Dani Rodrik (Harvard)
- Alvaro Santos (Georgetown)
- Gregory Shaffer (UC Irvine)
- Beth Simmons (Harvard)
- Robert Staiger (Dartmouth)
- Joel Trachtman (Tufts Fletcher)
- Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk)
- Mark Wu (Harvard)
Think Tanks / Non-Profit Organizations
- Edward Alden (Council on Foreign Relations)
- Chad Bown (Peterson Institute)
- Andrew Crosby (Int’l Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development)
- Uri Dadush (Carnegie Endowment)
- Oonagh Fitzgerald (Centre for Int’l Governance Innovation)
- Gary Hufbauer (Peterson Institute)
- Katrin Kuhlmann (New Markets Lab)
- Ensheng Ma (Lee Kuan Yew Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School)
- Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz (Int’l Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development)
- Joshua Meltzer (Brookings)
- Maria Panezi (Centre for Int’l Governance Innovation)
- Lori Wallach (Public Citizen)
Corporations / Trade Associations / Unions
- Usman Ahmed (PayPal)
- Christine Bliss (Coalition of Services Industries)
- Nicholas Bramble (Google)
- Michael Castellano (Disney)
- Sage Chandler (Consumer Technology Association)
- Jake Colvin (National Foreign Trade Council)
- Ekaterine Egutia (TBC Bank, Georgia)
- Jeanette Fielding (Bayer)
- D. Michael Kaye (Archer Daniel Midlands)
- Thea Lee (AFL-CIO)
- Mario Palacios (Intel)
- William Reinsch (National Foreign Trade Council)
- Cristian Rodriguez Chiffelle (World Economic Forum)
- Vanessa Sciarra (Emergency Committee on American Trade)
- James Southwick (Medtronic)
- Cindy Stevens (Consumer Technology Association)
- David Thomas (Business Roundtable)
- David Weller (Google)