Editorial Board

Caroline S. Wagner
C.J. Polychroniou
Juergen Braunstein
Robert Falkner
Professor Ann Florini
Thomas Hale
Gleider Hernández
Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Marion Laboure
Kate Macdonald
Anthony McGrew
Dr Eva-Maria Nag
Lauge Poulsen
Danny Quah
Professor Dani Rodrik
Joel Sandhu
Antonio Savoia
Anmol Saxena
Catherine Turner

Advisory Board

Professor Tim Besley
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati
Professor John Braithwaite
Professor Mick Cox
Professor Geoffrey Garrett
Professor Takatoshi Ito
Professor Mary Kaldor
Professor Robert Keohane
Andreas Klasen
Professor Sebastiano Maffettone
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern
Professor Joseph Stiglitz
Professor Ngaire Woods
Professor Tianbiao Zhu

Practitioners' Board

Mr Lakhdar Brahimi
Richard Burge
Augustin Carstens Carstens
Howard Davies
Bill Emmott
Pascal Lamy
Chris Miller
Alastair Newton
James Orbinski
Javier Solana
George Soros
Professor Muhammad Yunus

Faizel Ismail

Position
Ambassador Permanent Representative of South Africa World Trade Organization
Achievements
Ambassador Permanent Representative WTO to South Africa

 

Faizel Ismail is currently the Ambassador Permanent Representative of South Africa to the WTO.

He has a Masters in Philosopy degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom. He also holds an LLB and a BA degree from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

He led the new democratic South Africa’s trade negotiations with the European Union, Southern African Development Community, Southern African Customs Union and several other bilateral trading partners including the US, India, and Mercusor since 1994.

He has led South Africa’s negotiations in the WTO since 2002 and has served as the Chair of the WTO negotiating group (CTDSS) for two years (2004-2006) and the Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) regular body for one year (2006/7).

He is the author of two books on the WTO: Mainstreaming Development in the WTO. Developing Countries in the Doha Round (CUTS International, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007) and Reforming the World Trade Organization. Developing Countries in the Doha Round (CUTS International, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2009). The latter book has been translated into Chinese and published by the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre and the Shanghai People’s Publishing House (2011). He has published numerous articles in international journals and books on economic development and trade and development issues.

He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of World Trade; an Advisor to the BRICS Trade and Economic Research Network based at the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre, Shanghai, China; Senior Research Associate, Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Senior Research Associate, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; and a member of the Partnership Council of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Geneva, Switzerland.