The Governments of Mexico and the United Kingdom organised the event “Female economic empowerment in the COVID-19 context. It provided a space for participants to discuss ways to ensure the continuity of women’s and girls’ educational and…

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) upcoming selection by its members of the new Director-General (DG), is more critical than ever before. With a tightly contested race of eight highly-skilled candidates, a number of well renowned international…

Within a few short weeks, the coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread across the world and become a global phenomenon. All countries are deeply concerned about it and all countries will almost certainly be seriously affected by it, with some…

This presentation looks at the current state of play in trade facilitation as well as a look at how COVID-19 has impacted on movement of goods in and out of the country during the pandemic.

This paper gives my response to a request by the Kenya Permanent Secretary of the State Department for Trade and Enterprise Development to give my opinion on the initial draft of the proposed Free Trade Area between Kenya and the United States.…