Pierre Sauvé is a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Bern’s World Trade Institute. He served as a Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank’s Global Trade team from 2017 to 2025, where he led the Bank’s work on trade governance matters, engaged in country operations and represented the World Bank Group in G20 trade-related work. Previously, he served as Director of Studies, Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships and faculty member at the University of Bern's World Trade Institute (WTI), where he maintains an adjunct affiliation. His previous teaching engagements include the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Harvard Kennedy School, the College of Europe, the University of Barcelona and Sciences-Po Paris. He was previously a staff member of the Bank for International Settlements, the GATT and the OECD and a member of Canada’s negotiating team under the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was educated at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Carleton University in Canada and at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. His principal research interests lie in the areas of trade in services, the regulation of foreign direct investment, comparative regional integration and the political economy of the multilateral trading system, issues on which he has published extensively. His most recent publication, co-edited with Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Rodrigo Polanco and entitled International Economic Law as Symphony: Thomas Cottier and the Harmonies of Trade, was published in May 2025 by Hart Publishing.