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)