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OECD Assessment of the Hong Kong Talks Presentation: Jean-Marie Metzger, OECD Director for Trade Discussant: Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

This event took place on Friday, February 10, 2006
8:30 AM Registration - 9.00-10.00 AM Presentation
Capitol Hill Club, Private Dining Room 3, 300 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003

Mr. Metzger presented the consequences of the most recent round of the Doha Development Agenda talks. Much is at stake in these negotiations for both developed and developing countries, all of whom stand to benefit from trade liberalization and policy reform. The OECD work supports the Doha Development Agenda by informing the negotiators on the costs and benefits of the different issues under negotiation. This work provides analysis on how these benefits can be reaped as well as how costs could be offset.

Jean-Marie Metzger has been Director of the OECD Trade Directorate since 1999.  While at the OECD, Mr. Metzger has overseen such analytical work related to trade policy issues and relationship with the WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations (including some keynote studies on the Development Dimension of Trade, the Relationship between Regionalism and Multilateralism, Trade and Environment and Trade and Competition issues).  Prior to working at the OECD, Mr. Metzger was a permanent delegate at the WTO and GATT, as well as chairman of a number of WTO Committees.  He has served in numerous positions within the French diplomatic corps and within the French Ministry of Economy and Finance.  Mr. Metzger holds an advanced degree from École Polytechnique in Paris.

Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (1986–88). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1982–83) and an official of the US Treasury Department (1974–82) in international trade and energy policy. During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the US delegation that negotiated the GATT Subsidies Code. Since January 2003, he has been a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee of the US government.