2: What is the WTO and why Donald Trump does not like it (with Dmitry Grozoubinski)
The World Trade Organization is virtually one of most successful and influential experiments of international cooperation. Loved by some and hated by others, the WTO has been at the centre of the debates on globalisation since its creation in 1995. Fiercely attacked by President Trump some say the WTO is going through a deep crisis which could go as far as jeopardizing its very existence. In this episode we discuss the present and future of the WTO with Dmitry Grozoubinski
Dmitry is the Executive Director of the Geneva Trade Platform and the Founder of the consultancy ExplainTrade. He served for six years in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, three of them at the Permanent Mission to the WTO. He has written extensively on the WTO, including his semi-regular blog series for Borderlex EU, "What you need to know."
Dmitry has just published a paper titled “THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: AN OPTIMISTIC PRE-MORTEM IN HOPES OF RESURRECTION”.