Is the World Trade Organization still relevant? It is 20 years old and has only just concluded its first deal. Major countries, including the United States and European Union, are negotiating deals outside the WTO. Why is it so hard to reach multilateral agreement? How will trade be governed in the future?

Speaker: Jonathan Fried, Chair of the WTO General Council, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada

Biography: Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the World Trade Organization, Geneva. Ambassador Fried is a distinguished diplomat, having served as Ambassador to Japan; Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean, IMF; Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister; Canada's G-7 and G-20 Finance Deputy; and at Canada's Foreign Ministry, Associate Deputy Minister; Assistant Deputy Minister for Trade, Economic and Environmental Policy; Chief Negotiator on China's World Trade Organization accession; Director-General for Trade Policy; and Chief Counsel for NAFTA.

This event is co-hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government and The Global Economic Governance Programme. For more information please contact geg@univ.ox.ac.uk

Open to the public.