TAFTA negotiators

This is the list of known negotiators for TAFTA/TTIP.

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EU
Overall Coordination

Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Chief Negotiator, director at the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG TRADE)

Ignacio Garcia Bercero is a Director in DG Trade of the European Commission. Since 2012 he has been responsible for overseeing EC activities in the fields of Neighbouring Countries, US and Canada as well as being the Chief Negotiator for the EU- India FTA. He coordinated the work of the EU-US High Level Working Group on Growth and Jobs, which recommended the launch of TTIP negotiations.

Working at the European Commission since 1987, from 2005 until 2011 he worked in the areas of Sustainable Development, Bilateral Trade Relations (South Asia, South East Asia, Korea, EuroMed and the Middle East). He was also the Chief Negotiator for the EU-Korea and EU-India Free Trade Agreements. Before that, he worked in the areas of WTO Dispute Settlement, and Trade Barriers Regulation .In the period leading to the launch of the DDA negotiations, he was working on overall coordination of WTO Policy and was Chief Negotiator on Trade and Competition. During the Uruguay Round, he followed, inter alia, negotiations on Safeguards, GATT Articles, Functioning of the GATT and Trade and Environment. He has also been posted in the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York.

He has written several papers and publications on the subjects of Trade Laws, GATT and WTO System, Safeguard Measures, Trade and Competition, DSU Reform and Dispute Settlement in European FTAs.

Mr Garcia Bercero has a Law Degree from the Law Faculty of Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Master of Laws Degree ( with Distinction) from University College, London.

Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554

Damien Levie
Deputy Chief Negotiator / Market Access for Goods

Negotiating Area Leaders

John Clarke
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products - Intellectual Property (DG Agriculture and Rural Development) John Clarke was born in England in 1958, and has a first class Honours degree and an MPhil in literature and politics from the University of London. Mr Clarke joined the European Commission in 1993. He was Head of Unit for WTO Affairs from 2004 to 2007 and was then appointed Deputy Head of the European Commission Delegation to the international organisations in Geneva.

Mr Clarke was Chargé d'Affaires of the EU Delegation in 2010, representing the EU in the WTO, and the UN agencies. In January 2011 Mr Clarke was appointed Director International Affairs in DG Agriculture and Rural Development, responsible for relations including FTAs with Asia and Latin American countries, neighbourhood policy and EU enlargements.

Before joining the European Commission, Mr Clarke worked from 1983 to 1993 for the Hong Kong Government, positions including Assistant Secretary for broadcasting policy, Deputy Secretary of the Executive Council, member of the HK delegation to the GATT during the Uruguay Round, and Deputy Head of the HK Office in Brussels.

Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554

Jean-Marc Trarieux
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products (DG Agriculture and Rural Development)

Zoltan Somogyi
Agriculture & Processed Agriculture Products

Antonis Kastrissianakis
Rules of Origin / Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Customs and Trade Facilitation (DG Taxation and Customs Union)



Fernando Perreau de Pinninck
Rules of Origin / Regulatory Cluster - Overall co-ordination

Marco Düerkop
Services and Investment - Services / Sub-group on regulatory cooperation in financial services

Martin Merlin
Services and Investment - Sub-group on regulatory cooperation in financial services (DG Internal Market and Services)

Leopoldo Rubinacci
Services and Investment - Investment

Colin Brown
Services and Investment - Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Geraldine Emberger
Regulatory Cluster - Horizontal Chapter on Regulatory Issues; Regulatory Coherence

Paul De Lusignan
Regulatory Cluster - TBT

Philippe Jean
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cars (DG Enterprise and Industry)

Carsten Schittek
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cars

Birgit Weidel
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Machinery and electronics (DG Enterprise and Industry)

Pablo Neira
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Machinery and electronics

Klaus Berend
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Chemicals (DG Enterprise and Industry)

Dr. Klaus Berend joined the European Commission in 1994 and is currently Head of Unit in the European Commission’s Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, responsible for the implementation of the EU Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), which sets out the overall framework for regulating chemicals in the EU.

Before, he was Head of Unit in DG Enterprise & Industry, responsible for EU legislation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), detergents, fertilisers, drug precursors, explosives and pyrotechnic articles. The unit also dealt with the sustainability and competitiveness of the chemicals industry in the European Union.

Previously, he was Deputy Head of Unit in the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment, Unit Biotechnology & Pesticides, where he co-ordinated the work concerning biocides, plant protection products and the Community’s participation in the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC).

He studied chemistry at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Stanford, and obtained a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Freiburg (Germany).

Source: http://www.eu-ems.com/speakers.asp?event_id=197&page_id=1668#s2554

Benjamin Musall
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Chemicals

Laurent Selles
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Medical devices (DG Health and Consumers)

Ivone Kaizeler
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Medical devices

Sébastien Goux
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Pharmaceuticals (DG Health and Consumers)

Roman Mokry
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Cosmetics (DG Health and Consumers)

Constantin Livas
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Textiles TBT (DG Enterprise and Industry)

Lorenzo Terzi
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (DG Health and Consumers)

Ulrich Weigl
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Anders Jessen
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Public Procurement

Pedro Velasco Martins
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Intellectual Property

Raimundo Serra
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Intellectual Property (GIs) (DG Agriculture and Rural Development)

Monika Hencsey
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Trade and Sustainable Development (labour and environment)

Christophe Kiener
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Competition Policy; State Owned Enterprises and other enterprises benefiting from special government granted rights; Subsidies

Blanca Rodriguez
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Competition Policy; State Owned Enterprises and other enterprises benefiting from special government granted rights; Subsidies (DG Competition)

Petros Sourmelis
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Trade-related Aspects of Raw Materials and Energy

Denis Redonnet
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Customs and Trade Facilitation - SMEs - Other rules

Luca De Carli
Sectoral Annexes on Trade in Goods - Dispute Settlement

US (The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR))
Overall Coordination

Dan Mullaney
Chief Negotiator

David Weiner
Deputy Chief Negotiator

Kate Kalutkiewicz
Assistant Chief Negotiator

Isabella Detwiler
Negotiating Team Coordinator

Negotiating Area Leads

Mary Lisa Madell
Agricultural Market Access

David Weiner
Competition

Thomas Fine
Cross-Border Services

Dawn Shackleford
Customs and Trade Facilitation

Robb Tanner
Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications

Jean Kemp
Energy and Raw Materials

David Oliver
Environment

Amanda Yarusso-Horan
Financial Services

Gavin Buckley
Financial Services

Scott Pietan
Government Procurement

George York
Intellectual Property Rights

Jai Motwane
Investment

Carlos Romero
Labor

Amy Karpel
Legal/Institutional Issues

Matthew Jaffe
Legal/Institutional Issues

Arrow Augerot
Localization Barriers

Sushan Demirjian
Market Access and Industrial Goods Tariffs

Mary Thornton
Market Access and Industrial Goods Tariffs

Rachel Shub
Regulatory Coherence and Transparency

Jason Bernstein
Rules of Origin

Mary Lisa Madell
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures

Jim Sanford
Sectoral Annexes/Regulatory Cooperation

Barbara Norton
Sectoral Annexes/Regulatory Cooperation

Christina Sevilla
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Victor Mroczka
State-Owned Enterprises

Julia Doherty
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)

Gail Strickler
Textiles

Caroyl Miller
Textiles

Victor Mroczka
Trade Remedies