For Press: Trade Union & NGO Experts' Contacts for MC10 WTO Ministerial meeting in Nairobi, Kenya December 15 – 18, 2015
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Below, please find contact information for civil society representatives in attendance at WTO MC10, working in coordination with Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) global network and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
Trade Union Representatives | |||
Name and Organization | Country | Topics of Expertise | Contact Details and Languages |
Adhemar Mineiro Economic Advisor to TUCA (Trade Union Confederation of the Americas) and REBRIP (Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples) | Brazil | Trade; development; developing countries; regional integration | +41-78-9009174 Portuguese, Spanish, English, French |
Peter Waldorff LO – the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions | Denmark | Decent work, EU bilateral trade agreements, TTIP and TiSA, labour rights, trade and development, global framework agreements, collective bargaining | Danish and other Scandinavian languages, English |
David Kwabla DORKENOO Regional Secretary for Africa and Arab Countries, Public Services International (PSI) | Ghana | Trade in services; civil society perspectives on WTO issues | +233-208184374 English |
Georgios Altintzis | Greece | Policy space and industrial policy, supply chains, labour rights, trade and development, trade and inequality, FTAs | georgios.altintzis@ituc-csi.org English, Greek, Spanish |
Roni Febrianto Information & Communication Head, KSPI (Confederation of Indonesia Trade Union) | Indonesia | Inequality and trade; macro-economic issue and the Asian perspective | ronifspmi@gmail.com English |
Akhator Joel Odigie Coordinator, Human & Trade Union Rights, ITUC-Africa | Nigeria/Togo | Trade; investment and human rights; trade and development; corporate behavior; taxation; labour policies; globalization | English |
Gladys Branche Women’s Coordinator, Sierra Leone Labour Congress | Sierra Leone | Women and agriculture/food security | English |
Susanne Lindberg Elmgren Research Officer and Trade Policy Advisor, Swedish Trade Union Confederation | Sweden | Trade and labour standards, business and human rights, EU trade policy, bilateral trade agreement (TTIP and others), Fairtrade (trademark) | English, Swedish |
Everline Aketch International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) | Uganda | Taxation; balance of payment; privatization | +256772859115/705780383 English |
Farmers / Agricultural Focused Groups and Experts | |||
Name and Organization | Country | Topics of Expertise | Contact Details and Languages |
Jacques Berthelot Economist, Solidarite | France | Agricultural trade policies | jacques.berthelot4@wanadoo.fr |
Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah General Secretary, General Agricultural Workers Union | Ghana | Agreement on agriculture; social and environmental clauses | English |
Anuradha Talwar Trade Unionist, Representative of the Agricultural Workers Unions | India | Agriculture in India, agricultural labour issues, women farmers, public Stock-holding, hunger and starvation amongst tea garden workers | English |
Biraj Patnaik Principal Adviser, Supreme Court Comissioners on the Right to Food (India) and Member of the Right to Food Campaign | India | Right to adequate food and nutrition, public stock-holding, agriculture subsidies, national Food Security Act India | English, Hindi |
Dr. Krishan Bir Chaudhary President, Bharatiya Krishak Samaj, | India | Farmers Issues, subsidies, food rights, IPR, climate change | krishak1951@gmail.com |
Ranja Sengupta Third World Network, Senior Researcher | India | Agriculture, government procurement | +91-9811368168 English, Bengali, Hindi |
Sophia Murphy Senior Advisor, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, University of British Colombia | U.S./Canada | WTO agreement on agriculture; food security and rural development | English, French, Spanish |
Timothy A. Wise Policy Research Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University | U.S. | Agriculture negotiations, Global food crisis, Agriculture and climate change, WTO & the right to food, trade and small-scale farming, modeling gains from trade agreements, Trade liberalization & maize markets, Biofuels and food security, Lessons from NAFTA | English, Spanish |
Regional Organizations (Africa) | |||
Name and Organization | Country | Topics of Expertise | Contact Details and Languages |
Sylvester BAGOORO Programme Officer, Political Economy, Third World Network – Africa | Ghana | Trade, investment, Africa’s developmental concerns | English |
Daniel Maingi Coordinator Kenya Food Right Alliance-KeFRA Director - Growth Partners Africa | Kenya | Agriculture negotiations and food security
| info@kenyafoodrightsalliance.net +254722473299 English |
Fredrick Njehu Program Advisor, Trade and Economic Justice Kenya Human Rights Commission | Kenya | Trade and Investment, Environment and Climate Change, Regional Integration, Agriculture and Food security, Business and Human Rights | +254723583251 English, Kiswahili |
Eugene Jernigan Action Green for Trade and Sustainable Development (AGTSD) | Kenya | Financing for Development (FfD) - measures to improving financing for development policies in post 2015 sustainable development | +254722996837 English |
Jessica Micheni Project Officer, Action Green for Trade and Sustainable Development | Kenya | Gender and human rights, climate change financing, women in trade | +254 721 430769 English, Kiswahili |
Njoki Njehu Executive Director, Daughters of Mumbi Global Resource Center | Kenya | Smallholder agriculture; gender and trade | 0737 626 946 (+254) English, Swahili, Gikuyu |
Rebecca Tanui Building Eastern Africa Community Network (BEACON) | Kenya | Agriculture, Trade and environment | +254723348617 English |
Soren Ambrose Head of Policy, Advocacy & Research, ActionAid International (Nairobi) | Kenya | Africa; development finance | +254-723-151-541 English |
Ken UKAOHA President, National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) | Nigeria | Trade, services, regional integration, trade agreements | English |
Faith Lumonya Program Officer, SEATINI Uganda | Uganda | Trade and investment, intellectual property and competition policy | English |
Munu Martin Luther Programme Officer, Southern & Eastern African Trade, Information & Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) | Uganda | Trade and investment; agriculture and development – African perspectives | +25-678-269-8297 English |
NGO Representatives | |||
Name and Organization | Country | Topics of Expertise | Contact Details and Languages |
Syed Aminul Hoque Secretariat Coordinator, Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD) | Bangladesh | Trade and agriculture | +8801713328815 English |
Marc Maes Trade Policy Officer, 11.11.11 | Belgium | EU Trade Policy, EU Free Trade Agreements: EPAs, TTIP, EU Investment Policy (CETA, TTIP, Singapore), WTO, GATS, TISA | +32-49-760-0442 English, French, Dutch |
G. Manicandan Forum Against FTAs/OWINFS | India | Environmental Good Agreement (EGA), Information Technology Agreement, NAMA | manicandan@gmail.com |
Irhash Ahmady Knowledge Manager National Executif Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) / Member of WG Economic Justice Resist Neoliberalism FoEInternational | Indonesia | Civil Society Perspectives on WTO and activities arround MC 10,particular Post-Bali Programme on agricultural sector and agroecology, and support G33 proposal on Food Security | +62-813175099229 English, Bahasa |
Lutfiyah Hanim Researcher, Third World Network | Indonesia | Agriculture issues (trade, G33, food, seed), TRIPs and access to medicine, FTA, investment | lutfiyah.hanim@gmail.com |
Priska Sabrina Luvita Knowledge Management Officer, Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ) | Indonesia | Civil Society perspectives on the WTO and activities around MC10; Post-Bali Work Programme, especially agricultural sector; and support for the G33 proposal on Food Security | priskasabrinaluvita@gmail.com priska@igj.or.id |
Rachmi Hertani Research & Monitoring Manager, Indonesia for Global Justice | Indonesia | Civil society perspectives on WTO agricultural agreements, especially on G33 proposals, investment treaty and ISDS issues | rachmihertanti@gmail.com amie@igj.or.id |
Prerna Bomzan Advocacy Co-ordinator, LDC Watch | Nepal | LDC specific issues on trade, agriculture, climate change, gender, international cooperation | |
Burghard Ilge Senior Policy Officer, Both ENDS | Netherlands | WTO issues | English, Dutch |
Anniken Elise Storbakk Coordinator, The Norwegian Trade Campaign | Norway | Agriculture negotiations and food security | handelskampanjen@handelskampanjen.no |
Helene Bank Special Advisor, Campaign for the Welfare State, Norway | Norway | North-south divide in negotiations; GATS/TISA; industrial and employment policy | Helene.bank@velferdsstaten.no
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Antonio Tujan Jr Director, IBON International | Philippines | WTO, development issues in general, accountability, agriculture | +63 917 5556365 |
Tony Salvador Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS); Legal Counsel | Philippines | Mode 4 - Movement of Natural Persons | Tagalog, English, Spanish |
Paul Quintos Program Manager for Sustainable Development, IBON International | Philippines | SDGs, human rights, economic justice, social movements | pquintos@iboninternational.org +63 917 5490412 English, Filipino |
Isolda Agazzi Trade Policy Officer, Alliance Sud | Switzerland | WTO and the Doha Round; TISA; Bilateral trade & investment agreements | +41-79-434-45-60 English, French, Italian |
Polly Jones Head of Campaigns and Policy, Global Justice Now | UK | Civil society engagement on trade in UK, EU and global south; TTIP; public services, development and investment | Polly.jones@globaljustice.org.uk +254 790 503 083 (Nairobi cell) +44 (0)7702 236 418 (UK cell) English |
Ruth Bergan Coordinator, the Trade Justice Movement | UK | CSO positions on the WTO, public stockholding for food security, Trade Facilitation Agreement, Intellectual Property Rights, Investment | 0702 356 279 English, French |
Deborah James WTO Campaign Facilitator, Our World Is Not For Sale Network (OWINFS) | USA | Civil Society perspectives on the WTO and activities around MC10; in particular, opposition to the abandonment of the development mandate and the introduction of so-called “New Issues” into the WTO; and support for the G33 proposals on SSM and public stockholding and the G90 proposal on SDT | English, Spanish |
Jessa Boehner International Program Associate, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch | USA | U.S. consumer concerns, inclusion of investment as a WTO “new issue” | jboehner@citizen.org English |
Marie Clarke Executive Director, ActionAid USA
| USA | Agriculture, food security, smallholder farmers, North-South divide in negotiations, inequality, taxation | +1-202-255-7849 English |
Members of Parliament | |||
Name and Organization | Country | Topics of Expertise | Contact Details and Languages |
Uwe Kekeritz MP German Parliament, Development Policy Spokesman of the Parliamentary Group Alliance 90 / The Greens | Germany | Critical perspective on EU and German trade and development policies (especially trade and development, corporate responsibility, financing development, food sovereignty) | +49 172 2958527 German, English |