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When the consultations are complete, the consensus slate is “noted” in
the General Council, Goods Council or Services Council, and then each
subsidiary council, committee or working party formally confirms the
selection by electing its own chairperson by consensus. A number of
Goods Council committees also elect their vice-chairpersons.
Almost all the chairs have one-year terms. The exceptions are: the Trade
Negotiations Committee, chaired ex-officio by the WTO Director-General;
and the chairs of negotiating groups under the Trade Negotiations
Committee, which have terms that are set differently, so far from one
Ministerial Conference to the next.
Chairpersons of the General Council and
bodies reporting to it back to top
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General Council |
H.E. Mr. Yonov Frederick AGAH (Nigeria) |
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Dispute Settlement Body |
H.E. Mrs. Elin Østebø JOHANSEN (Norway) |
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Trade Policy Review Body |
H.E. Mr. Mario MATUS (Chile) |
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Council for Trade in Goods |
H.E. Mr. Jüri SEILENTHAL (Estonia) |
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Council for Trade in Services |
H.E Mr. ERWIDODO (Indonesia) |
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Council for TRIPS |
H.E. Mr. Federico A. GONZÁLEZ (Paraguay) |
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Committee on Trade and Environment |
H.E. Mrs. Hiswani HARUN (Malaysia) |
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Committee on Trade and Development |
H.E. Dr. Anthony Mothae MARUPING (Lesotho) |
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Committee on Balance-of Payments Restrictions |
H.E. Mr. Hisham M. BADR (Egypt) |
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Committee on Regional Trade Agreements |
Mr. François RIEGERT (France) |
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Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration |
Mr. Pasi-Heikki VAARANMAA (Finland) |
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Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology |
H.E. Mrs. Marion Vernese WILLIAMS (Barbados) |
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Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance |
Mr. Martin GLASS (Hong Kong, China) |
|
Trade Negotiations Committee |
WTO Director-General Pascal LAMY (ex officio) |
Chairpersons of bodies established under
the Trade Negotiations Committee back to top
|
Negotiating Group on Market Access |
Amb.
Luzius WASESCHA (Switzerland) |
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Negotiating Group on Rules |
Amb. Dennis FRANCIS (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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Negotiating Group on Trade Facilitation |
H.E. Mr. Eduardo Ernesto SPERISEN-YURT (Guatemala) |
|
Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services |
H.E. Mr. Fernando DE MATEO Y VENTURINI (Mexico) |
|
Special Session of the Council for TRIPS |
Amb. Darlington MWAPE (Zambia) |
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Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body |
Amb. Ronald SABORÍO SOTO (Costa Rica) |
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Special Session of the Committee on Agriculture |
Amb. John ADANK (New Zealand) |
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Sub-Committee on Cotton |
Amb. John ADANK (New Zealand) |
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Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Environment |
H.E. Mr. Manuel
A.J. TEEHANKEE
(Philippines) |
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Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development |
H.E. Mr. Shahid BASHIR (Pakistan) |
Chairpersons of subsidiary bodies
of the Council for Trade in Goods back to top
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Committee on Agriculture |
Mr. Jonas SKEI (Norway) |
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Committee on Anti-Dumping |
Mr. Subhas GUJADHUR (Mauritius) |
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Committee on Customs Valuation |
Mr. Masafumi KOBAYASHI (Japan) |
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Committee on Import Licensing |
Mr. Flavio SOARES DAMICO (Brazil) |
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Committee on Market Access |
Mr. Atilla BASTIRMACI (Turkey) |
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Committee on Rules of Origin |
Mr. Daniel O. OWOKO (Kenya) |
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Committee on Safeguards |
Ms.
Lillian BWALYA (Zambia) |
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures |
Mr. Deny Kurnia (Indonesia) |
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures |
Mr.
Andreas KRALLMANN (Germany) |
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade |
Ms. Denise PEREIRA (Singapore) |
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Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures |
Mr. Patrick VAN GHEEL (Belgium) |
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Working Party on State Trading Enterprises |
Mr. Christian FRESARD (Chile) |
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ITA Committee |
Mr. Syed Mohd Faizal Bin Syed Mohd DARDIN (Malaysia) |
Chairpersons of subsidiary bodies of the Council for Trade in Services back to top
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Committee on Trade in Financial Services |
Mr. Quan ZHAO (China) |
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Working Party on Domestic Regulation |
Mr. Ahmad MUKHTAR (Pakistan) |
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Committee on Specific Commitments |
Mr. Robert PROCHAZKA (Austria) |
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Working Party on GATS Rules |
Ms. Tamsin ROYSON (New Zealand) |
Chairpersons of Committees of Plurilateral Agreements back to top
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Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft |
Mr. Guillaume CLICHE (Canada) |
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Committee on Government Procurement |
Mr. Nicholas NIGGLI (Switzerland) |
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Former chairs
> 1995-2002
> 2003-2007
> 2008-2010 |
