The E15 engages key stakeholders – trade and investment policy makers, business and thought leaders – in policy dialogues in Geneva and around the world to explore and help validate ideas, align interests and strengthen the impetus for change.
Expert Group and Task Force Workshops
Second Expert Group Workshop on Services
The E15 Expert Group on Services met for the second time in Geneva on 24-25 November 2014 with a focus on “Rethinking the Role of Services in a Changing World”. Six presentations followed by group discussion centered on the following issues at the intersection of the services trade and development: achieving adequate regulatory disciplines for services and prospects for regulatory coherence through new mechanisms; ramification of the “fusion” of goods and services in international output, investment and trade; services trade agreements their ability to adapt changes in technology and business models that affect services; examining services SMEs and their developmental impact; hard law vs. “soft law” in fostering better dialogue around services trade liberalization; and GATS and XXI century trade challenges.
Attendance at this event was by invitation only.
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ICTSD, World Economic Forum, E15 Initiative, Kommerskollegium - Services - experts
E15 Expert Group on Services
ICTSD, World Economic Forum, E15 Initiative, Kommerskollegium - Services - Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Patrick Low, Sherry Stephenson
Left to right: Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, ICTSD; Patrick Low, Fung Global Institute; Sherry Stephenson, ICTSD
ICTSD, World Economic Forum, E15 Initiative, Kommerskollegium - Services - Magnus Renzhog
Magnus Rentzhog, Kommerskollegium
ICTSD, World Economic Forum, E15 Initiative, Kommerskollegium - Services - Aaditya Mattoo
Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank
