Philip Marsden, D Phil (Oxon) is Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and a member of the Board of the Office of Fair Trading. He has twenty years of experience in trade and competition law matters. Philip was a case officer at the Canadian Competition Bureau, where among other things he acted as competition representative on the Canadian negotiating team for the GATS Telecoms Reference Paper and at competition-related NAFTA and WTO negotiations. Philip is the author of A Competition Policy for the WTO, a member of the Advisory Council of Advocates for International Development and an editor of the European Competition Journal. He is a visiting lecturer at CUTS Institute of Regulation and Competition in Jaipur, India, and the WTI in Berne.

Dr. Christian Pitschas, LL.M., is a partner at MSBH Rechtsanwälte. Christian advises and represents clients on all matters relating to trade in goods and services, in particular in the areas of agriculture, SPS, TBT, NTBs, trade facilitation, subsidies, government procurement and dispute settlement, as well as EU law and public international law. Christian has fifteen years of professional experience, including positions as a trade lawyer with a major international law firm in Brussels, lecturer in EU and public international law at the Free University of Berlin and clerk with the Court of Appeals in Berlin. Christian regularly lectures at the WTI in Berne as well as the Europe-Institute of the University of Saarland and sits on the advisory board of the Centre for Foreign Trade Law in Münster. He frequently publishes on issues of international and EU trade law and policy. He speaks English and French in addition to his native German.

Hannes Schloemann, LL.M. is a trade lawyer and partner at MSBH Rechtsanwälte. His specializations include WTO accessions, trade in services, goods/NAMA, trade & environment, trade negotiations, WTO dispute settlement, S&D, anti-dumping, subsidies and sanctions, as well as regional trade agreements (EuroMed, EPAs), climate change and general public international law. Stations of his career include Baker & McKenzie´s International Trade and WTO Practice Group, the office of an MP and the German Embassy in New Delhi. Hannes regularly teaches at academic institutions, including the WTI in Berne. He is a member of the advisory board of the Zentrum für Außenwirtschaftsrecht in Münster. His publications include the award-winning 1999 American Journal of International Law article "Constitutionalization" and WTO Dispute Settlement – National Security as an Issue of Competence. Hannes speaks German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and some Arabic.

Hadil Hijazi, MA, MSc, is the Director of WTI Advisors’ Geneva Branch. She has over twelve years of professional experience advising public and private institutions on trade and economic policy and related private sector matters. Her recent practice focuses on trade policy and law, including in particular DDA negotiations, trade in services, NTBs, rules of origin, TBT, SPS, WTO accession, EuroMed negotiations and EPAs. From 2000 to 2001 Hadil advised the Palestinian Ministry of Economy and Trade on trade policy and trade negotiations. Her academic activities include guest lectures at EDHEC, Nice, France, the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Hadil holds Masters degrees in International and Comparative Legal Studies from SOAS, London and Management from Boston University. Apart from her native Arabic she speaks English, German and some French.

Sufian Jusoh, LL.M., is a Barrister (England and Wales) and a Research Fellow with the NCCR Project at the WTI in Berne. He is based in Kuala Lumpur and Berne. Sufian has more than a decade’s experience in legal practice. His areas of specialization are IP law, franchising, international environmental law and laws relating to technology. Sufian was the legal advisor to a Malaysian Government science park where he advised on technology and the law, venture capital investment and patents in agriculture biotechnology. Sufian was also the legal advisor to the Malaysian Malay Chamber of Commerce and Labuan Liberty Port in East Malaysia. He also advised various interest groups in the formulation of the Malaysian Long Term Plan 2000–2010. Sufian speaks Malay and English.

WTI Advisors works closely with high-quality external trade experts, including faculty, staff and graduates of the World Trade Institute, for example:

Prof. Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the WTI, Professor of European and International Economic Law and Director of the Institute of European and International Economic Law at the University of Berne. A former Head of Legal Services of the GATT Division, Swiss Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Deputy DG at the Swiss Federal Intellectual Property Office, member of various WTO/GATT dispute settlement panels and Swiss negotiator at the GATT Uruguay Round and on EEA negotiations, he is one of the key authorities on international trade and WTO law.

Pierre Sauvé, Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies of the WTI and visiting lecturer at several academic institutions, including the LSE, the College of Europe and the University of Barcelona Law School, whose LLM programme in International Economic Law and Policy he co-directs. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. Pierre served as Canada’s services negotiator on NAFTA and was a staff member at the BIS, the GATT and the OECD. In 2007, he was a member of the Warwick Commission on the future of the multilateral trading system. His research and practice focus is on the evolution of rule-making for services trade and investment and the impact that regional integration exerts on the MTS.

Peter Tulloch, M.A. is a former Director of the Development and Trade Policy Review Divisions at the WTO (and formerly GATT) Secretariat. He is an economist by background, with 26 years of broad and in-depth experience at the Secretariat, including work on balance of payment issues, macro-economic policies, textiles and technical assistance as well as TPR and relations with developing countries. He has spent the past five years as a consultant on WTO issues for developing countries. Apart from his native English, Peter is fluent in French and reads Spanish.

Hilton Zunckel, M.I.L.E., a trade practitioner with fifteen years experience, is a founding partner of Trade Law Chambers in Cape Town, South Africa. His areas of expertise include in particular trade & development, agriculture, trade remedies, accessions, services and African regional trade issues. Hilton previously served as a senior trade advisor to the South African law firm Floor Inc. Attorneys and a senior researcher with TRALAC. Hilton lectures at several Southern African universities and publishes regularly on trade issues.

Dr. Christina Schröder, LL.M., was a Senior Counsellor in the Agriculture Division of the WTO (GATT) Secretariat when she left the institution after 33 years of service. She served inter alia as Legal Advisor / Panel Secretary on cases such as EC-Bananas, Korea-Beef and EC-Sugar. She now advises developing countries on issues related to trade in agriculture and fisheries, including the DDA negotiations on agriculture. She speaks Swedish, English, French and some Spanish and German.

Olga Nartova, M.I.L.E., is a legal advisor at “International Business & Legal Consultants” and a PhD candidate. Olga holds Bachelor degrees in Law (Moscow State Academy) and in economics (Russian Institute of Economics and Finance). She has extensive experience in the Middle East (Egypt, UAE, Qatar) and has published various articles on Middle Eastern law. She also lectures on international trade at the Oriental Academy and at the Institute of Economics, Politics and Law. Olga speaks Russian, English, Arabic and some German.