Harnessing Trade and Investment Policy Coherence and Global Investment Cooperation: Developments ...
Channel: ICTSD
Date: 2016-06-13

ICTSD co-organized the 2016 T20 Trade and Investment Conference on June 8th, 2016 with a subject focused on "Global Trade and Investment Cooperation - Openness, Inclusiveness and Growth". 


For more informarion: http://www.ictsd.org/themes/global-economic-governance/events/2016-t20-trade-and-investment-conference

Session 4: Harnessing Trade and Investment Policy Coherence and Global Investment Cooperation: Developments and Mechanism

How to foster further global investment cooperation? How to ensure that international trade and investment policy regimes are coherent and support economic growth and development? What can the G20 do to help encourage trade and investment cooperation? Should the G20 institutionalize a mechanism for dialogue on these questions, such as through regular trade ministers’ meeting and the trade & investment working group?

Panel discussion
• James ZHAN, Senior Director, Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD
• Alex BERGER, German Development Institute, T20 Institute
• Joost PAUWELYN, Professor & Co-Director,Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
• Joe ZHANG, Law Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Moderator: Yan DONG, Director, International Trade Department, IWEP CASS