TAFTA negotiators
This is the list of known negotiators for TAFTA/TTIP.
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- 1 EU
- 1.1 Ignacio Garcia Bercero
- 1.2 Damien Levie
- 1.3 John Clarke
- 1.4 Jean-Marc Trarieux
- 1.5 Zoltan Somogyi
- 1.6 Antonis Kastrissianakis
- 1.7 Fernando Perreau de Pinninck
- 1.8 Marco Düerkop
- 1.9 Martin Merlin
- 1.10 Leopoldo Rubinacci
- 1.11 Colin Brown
- 1.12 Geraldine Emberger
- 1.13 Paul De Lusignan
- 1.14 Philippe Jean
- 1.15 Carsten Schittek
- 1.16 Birgit Weidel
- 1.17 Pablo Neira
- 1.18 Klaus Berend
- 1.19 Benjamin Musall
- 1.20 Laurent Selles
- 1.21 Ivone Kaizeler
- 1.22 Sébastien Goux
- 1.23 Roman Mokry
- 1.24 Constantin Livas
- 1.25 Lorenzo Terzi
- 1.26 Ulrich Weigl
- 1.27 Anders Jessen
- 1.28 Pedro Velasco Martins
- 1.29 Raimundo Serra
- 1.30 Monika Hencsey
- 1.31 Christophe Kiener
- 1.32 Blanca Rodriguez
- 1.33 Petros Sourmelis
- 1.34 Denis Redonnet
- 1.35 Luca De Carli
- 2 US (The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR))
- 2.1 Dan Mullaney
- 2.2 David Weiner
- 2.3 Isabella Detwiler
- 2.4 Mary Lisa Madell
- 2.5 David Weiner
- 2.6 Thomas Fine
- 2.7 Dawn Shackleford
- 2.8 Jean Kemp
- 2.9 David Oliver
- 2.10 Amanda Yarusso-Horan
- 2.11 Gavin Buckley
- 2.12 Scott Pietan
- 2.13 George York
- 2.14 Jai Motwane
- 2.15 Carlos Romero
- 2.16 Amy Karpel
- 2.17 Matthew Jaffe
- 2.18 Arrow Augerot
- 2.19 Sushan Demirjian
- 2.20 Mary Thornton
- 2.21 Rachel Shub
- 2.22 Jason Bernstein
- 2.23 Mary Lisa Madell
- 2.24 Jim Sanford
- 2.25 Barbara Norton
- 2.26 Christina Sevilla
- 2.27 Victor Mroczka
- 2.28 Julia Doherty
- 2.29 Gail Strickler
- 2.30 Caroyl Miller
- 2.31 Victor Mroczka
EU
Overall Coordination
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Chief Negotiator, director at the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG TRADE)
Ignacio Garcia Bercero is a Director in DG Trade of the European Commission. Since 2012 he has been responsible for overseeing EC activities in the fields of Neighbouring Countries, US and Canada as well as being the Chief Negotiator for the EU- India FTA. He coordinated the work of the EU-US High Level Working Group on Growth and Jobs, which recommended the launch of TTIP negotiations.
Working at the European Commission since 1987, from 2005 until 2011 he worked in the areas of Sustainable Development, Bilateral Trade Relations (South Asia, South East Asia, Korea, EuroMed and the Middle East). He was also the Chief Negotiator for the EU-Korea and EU-India Free Trade Agreements. Before that, he worked in the areas of WTO Dispute Settlement, and Trade Barriers Regulation .In the period leading to the launch of the DDA negotiations, he was working on overall coordination of WTO Policy and was Chief Negotiator on Trade and Competition. During the Uruguay Round, he followed, inter alia, negotiations on Safeguards, GATT Articles, Functioning of the GATT and Trade and Environment. He has also been posted in the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York.
He has written several papers and publications on the subjects of Trade Laws, GATT and WTO System, Safeguard Measures, Trade and Competition, DSU Reform and Dispute Settlement in European FTAs.
Mr Garcia Bercero has a Law Degree from the Law Faculty of Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Master of Laws Degree ( with Distinction) from University College , London.
Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554
Damien Levie
Deputy Chief Negotiator / Market Access for Goods
Negotiating Area Leaders
John Clarke
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products - Intellectual Property (DG Agriculture and Rural Development)
John Clarke was born in England in 1958, and has a first class Honours degree and an MPhil in literature and politics from the University of London.
Mr Clarke joined the European Commission in 1993. He was Head of Unit for WTO Affairs from 2004 to 2007 and was then appointed Deputy Head of the European Commission Delegation to the international organisations in Geneva.
Mr Clarke was Chargé d'Affaires of the EU Delegation in 2010, representing the EU in the WTO, and the UN agencies. In January 2011 Mr Clarke was appointed Director International Affairs in DG Agriculture and Rural Development, responsible for relations including FTAs with Asia and Latin American countries, neighbourhood policy and EU enlargements.
Before joining the European Commission, Mr Clarke worked from 1983 to 1993 for the Hong Kong Government, positions including Assistant Secretary for broadcasting policy, Deputy Secretary of the Executive Council, member of the HK delegation to the GATT during the Uruguay Round, and Deputy Head of the HK Office in Brussels.
Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554
Jean-Marc Trarieux
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products (DG Agriculture and Rural Development)
Zoltan Somogyi
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products
Antonis Kastrissianakis
Rules of Origin / Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Customs and Trade Facilitation (DG Taxation and Customs Union)
Fernando Perreau de Pinninck
Rules of Origin / Regulatory Cluster - Overall co-ordination
Marco Düerkop
Services and Investment - Services / Sub-group on regulatory cooperation in financial services
Martin Merlin
Services and Investment - Sub-group on regulatory cooperation in financial services (DG Internal Market and Services)
Leopoldo Rubinacci
Services and Investment - Investment
Colin Brown
Services and Investment - Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Geraldine Emberger
Regulatory Cluster - Horizontal Chapter on Regulatory Issues; Regulatory Coherence
Paul De Lusignan
Regulatory Cluster - TBT
Philippe Jean
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cars (DG Enterprise and Industry)
Carsten Schittek
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cars
Birgit Weidel
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Machinery and electronics (DG Enterprise and Industry)
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Pablo Neira
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Machinery and electronics
Klaus Berend
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Chemicals (DG Enterprise and Industry)
Dr. Klaus Berend joined the European Commission in 1994 and is currently Head of Unit in the European Commission’s Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, responsible for the implementation of the EU Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), which sets out the overall framework for regulating chemicals in the EU.
Before, he was Head of Unit in DG Enterprise & Industry, responsible for EU legislation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), detergents, fertilisers, drug precursors, explosives and pyrotechnic articles. The unit also dealt with the sustainability and competitiveness of the chemicals industry in the European Union.
Previously, he was Deputy Head of Unit in the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment, Unit Biotechnology & Pesticides, where he co-ordinated the work concerning biocides, plant protection products and the Community’s participation in the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC).
He studied chemistry at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Stanford, and obtained a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Freiburg (Germany).
Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554
Benjamin Musall
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Chemicals
Laurent Selles
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Medical devices (DG Health and Consumers)
Ivone Kaizeler
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Medical devices
Sébastien Goux
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Pharmaceuticals (DG Health and Consumers)
Roman Mokry
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cosmetics (DG Health and Consumers)
Constantin Livas
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Textiles TBT (DG Enterprise and Industry)
Lorenzo Terzi
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (DG Health and Consumers)
Ulrich Weigl
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Anders Jessen
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Public Procurement
Pedro Velasco Martins
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Intellectual Property
Raimundo Serra
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Intellectual Property (GIs) (DG Agriculture and Rural Development)
Monika Hencsey
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Trade and Sustainable Development (labour and environment)
Christophe Kiener
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Competition Policy; State Owned Enterprises and other enterprises benefiting from special government granted rights; Subsidies
Blanca Rodriguez
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Competition Policy; State Owned Enterprises and other enterprises benefiting from special government granted rights; Subsidies (DG Competition)
Petros Sourmelis
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Trade-related Aspects of Raw Materials and Energy
Denis Redonnet
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Customs and Trade Facilitation - SMEs - Other rules
Luca De Carli
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Dispute Settlement
US (The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR))
Overall Coordination
Dan Mullaney
David Weiner
Deputy Chief Negotiator
===Kate Kalutkiewicz===
Assistant Chief Negotiator
Isabella Detwiler
Negotiating Team Coordinator
Negotiating Area Leads
Mary Lisa Madell
Agricultural Market Access
David Weiner
Competition
Thomas Fine
Cross-Border Services
Dawn Shackleford
Customs and Trade Facilitation
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Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications
Jean Kemp
Energy and Raw Materials
David Oliver
Environment
Amanda Yarusso-Horan
Financial Services
Gavin Buckley
Financial Services
Scott Pietan
Government Procurement
George York
Intellectual Property Rights
Jai Motwane
Investment
Carlos Romero
Labor
Amy Karpel
Legal/Institutional Issues
Matthew Jaffe
Legal/Institutional Issues
Arrow Augerot
Localization Barriers
Sushan Demirjian
Market Access and Industrial Goods Tariffs
Mary Thornton
Market Access and Industrial Goods Tariffs
Rachel Shub
Regulatory Coherence and Transparency
Jason Bernstein
Rules of Origin
Mary Lisa Madell
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures
Jim Sanford
Sectoral Annexes/Regulatory Cooperation
Barbara Norton
Sectoral Annexes/Regulatory Cooperation
Christina Sevilla
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Victor Mroczka
State-Owned Enterprises
Julia Doherty
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
Gail Strickler
Textiles
Caroyl Miller
Textiles
Victor Mroczka
Trade Remedies