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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. Bruce GOSPER (Australia) |
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Dispute Settlement
Body |
H.E. Mr. Mario MATUS (Chile) |
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Trade Policy Review Body |
H.E. Mr. Yonov Frederick AGAH (Nigeria) |
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Council for Trade in Goods |
H.E. Ms Karen TAN (Singapore) |
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Council for Trade in Services |
H.E. Mr. Alex VAN MEEUWEN (Belgium) |
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Council for TRIPS |
H.E. Mr. Denis FRANCIS (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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Committee on Trade and Environment |
Dr. Wieslaw KARSZ (Poland) |
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Committee on Trade and Development |
H.E. Mr. Shree Baboo Chekitan SERVANSING (Mauritius) |
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Committee on Balance-of Payments Restrictions |
H.E. Mr. Chitsaka CHIPAZIWA (Zimbabwe) |
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Committee on Regional Trade Agreements |
Mr. Detlev BRAUNS
(Germany) |
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Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration |
Mr. Tony LYNCH (New Zealand) |
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Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology |
H.E. Mr. Kwabena BAAH-DUODU (Ghana) |
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Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance |
Mr. Martin GLASS (Hong Kong, China) |
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Trade Negotiations Committee |
WTO Director-General Pascal LAMY (ex officio) |
Chairpersons of bodies established under
the Trade Negotiations Committee back to top
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Negotiating Group on Market Access |
Amb.
Luzius WASESCHA (Switzerland) |
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Negotiating Group on Rules |
Amb. Guillermo Valles GALMÉS (Uruguay) |
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Negotiating Group on Trade Facilitation |
H.E. Mr. Eduardo Ernesto SPERISEN-YURT (Guatemala) |
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Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services |
Amb. Fernando de MATEO y VENTURINI (Mexico) |
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Special Session of the Council for TRIPS |
Amb. Trevor CLARKE (Barbados) |
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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. Crawford FALCONER (New Zealand) |
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Sub-Committee on Cotton |
Amb. Crawford FALCONER (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 |
Amb.
Thawatchai SOPHASTIENPONG
(Thailand) |
Chairpersons of subsidiary bodies
of the Council for Trade in Goods back to top
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Committee on Agriculture |
Ms. Valeria CSUKASI (Uruguay) |
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Committee on Anti-Dumping |
Mr. Jorge HUERTA GOLDMAN (Mexico) |
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Committee on Customs Valuation |
Ms. Octavia CERCHEZ (Romania) |
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Committee on Import Licensing |
Mr. Marco J. KASSAJA (Tanzania) |
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Committee on Market Access |
Dr. Mohammad SAEED (Pakistan) |
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Committee on Rules of Origin |
Ms. Vera THORSTENSEN (Brazil) |
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Committee on Safeguards |
Mr. Robert KASPER (United States) |
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures |
Mr. Marinus HUIGE
(Netherlands) |
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures |
Mr. Jun KAZEKI (Japan) |
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade |
Ms. Xueyan GUO (China) |
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Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures |
Mr. Henry LIU (Chinese Taipei) |
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Working Party on State Trading Enterprises |
Ms. Virág DANI (Hungary) |
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ITA Committee |
Mr. Khalid EMARA (Egypt) |
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. Tom Goodwin (United Kingdom) |
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Working Party on Domestic Regulation |
Mr. Peter GOVINDASAMY (Singapore) |
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Committee on Specific Commitments |
Mr. Nicolas Torres (Colombia) |
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Working Party on GATS Rules |
Ms. Jan Bailey (New Zealand) |
Chairpersons of Committees of Plurilateral Agreements back to top
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Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft |
Ms. Cecilie KVERME (Norway) |
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Committee on Government Procurement |
Mr. Nicholas NIGGLI (Switzerland) |
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