PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN HABERLI AND UMIDAH HAKNAZAR HELD A TRAINING ON THE THEME “TRADE AND AGRICULTURE UNDER WTO AGREEMENTS”

On September 6-8, 2022, within the framework of the “WTO Chair at UWED” project, Professor Christian Häberli and Umida Haknazar conducted a training for a group of professors and students of UWED, as well as specialists from state bodies on trade and agriculture issues under the WTO agreements.

Christian Haberli

The professor has been a member of the World Trade Institute since 2007 and is a research and advocacy consultant in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He has produced over 70 publications on trade and investment issues related to agriculture, food security, climate change, employment, multilateral and regional trade (https://www.wti.org/research/publications/?author=44).

He received his PhD in 1977 with a dissertation on African Investment Law (University of Basel). He also holds university degrees in developmental sciences (Geneva, 1975) and theology (Bern, 2009). His professional career began in 1978 with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Swiss government based in Madagascar, Thailand, Nepal and Switzerland. Dr. Haberli was Switzerland's trade negotiator for the Uruguay Round of GATT (1986-1993) and the Doha Round of the WTO. He was Chairman of the WTO Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session, 2005-2007) and participated in twenty phases of work to resolve five disputes (bananas, apples, biotechnology, audiovisualization and country of origin labeling) in the WTO group list from 1996 to 2015 . Also, Prof. Haberly participated as Chairman of the Arbitration Board on the EU initiative on restrictions imposed by Ukraine on the export of certain wood products (2020). He has also been Chairman (every two years) of the Joint Committee on an Agricultural Agreement between Switzerland and the EU (from 2002 to 2007).

Umida Haknazar

Dr. Umida Haknazar is an independent legal/trade advisor on WTO membership and subsequent international development projects in Central Asian and CAREC (Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation) member countries funded by various international development institutions such as ADB, World Bank, USAID, UN FAO, European Union. Its main activity is to provide technical assistance in the process of accession to the WTO, preparation of legislative acts in areas related to the WTO, such as technical regulation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, intellectual property rights, regional trade agreements, customs regulation, trade facilitation, etc. .

Umida is the editor of the Russian translation of the second edition of WTO Rights and Policies by Peter Van den Bosch.