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WTO DGG to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced four Deputy Directors-General (DGG) at the World Trade Organisation on May 4 2021. The four WTO DGG to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are Ms Angela Ellard (United States), Ms Anabel González (Costa Rica), Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam (France) and Ambassador Xiangchen Zhang (China).
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Ms Angela Ellard (United States)
Ms Angela Ellard (United States) works at the US Congress as Majority and Minority Chief Trade Counsel and Staff Director.
She is internationally recognized as an expert on trade and international economic policy; negotiating trade agreements and supporting multilateral solutions as part of an effective trade and development policy.
Ms Ellard has negotiated and delivered significant bipartisan trade policy outcomes and legislation for well over 25 years with Members of U.S. Congress and senior Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton Administration officials.
Ms Ellard also worked as a lawyer in the private sector, on trade litigation and strategy, policy and legislative issues.
She obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude from Tulane University School of Law and her Master of Arts in Public Policy also from Tulane. More so, she is a frequent lecturer at law, graduate, and undergraduate classes and has published articles on trade law and policy.
Ms Anabel González (Costa Rica)
Ms Anabel González (Costa Rica) is a renowned global expert on trade, investment and economic development.
She has a proven managerial track record in international organizations and the public sector. In government, Ms Gonzalez served as Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica; as Director-General for International Trade Negotiations; as Director-General of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE); and as Special Ambassador and Chief negotiator of the US-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement.
Ms Gonzalez also served at the World Bank as a Senior Director, the WTO as Director of the Agriculture and Commodities Division and as Senior Consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank.
More recently, Ms Gonzalez has worked as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Ms Gonzalez obtained her master’s degree from Georgetown University Law Center with the highest academic distinction; she has published extensively on economic issues and trade.
Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam (France)
Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam (France) has held senior management positions in the French Government on trade, most recently as Permanent Representative of France to the WTO.
He has also held a number of senior positions in the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, including as a member of the Executive Committee of the French Treasury; Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre in Geneva.
He has accumulated a deep and practical knowledge of government practices on trade; he is also familiar with high-level dialogues on trade and international economic operations.
Paugam published a number of articles on trade-related issues, in particular when serving as Senior Research Fellow on International Trade at the French Institute for International Relations (IFPRI).
Paugam graduated from ENA in Paris; obtained degrees in Political Science from the Institute of Political Science in Aix-en-Provence and in Law from the Faculty of Law Aix-Marseille III.
Ambassador Xiangchen Zhang (China)
Ambassador Xiangchen Zhang (China) is currently serving as Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Commerce of China.
He has long and extensive experience on WTO issues, international negotiations, and policy research. Ambassador Zhang served until recently as China’s Permanent Representative to the WTO and previously as Deputy Permanent Representative.
He has had an extensive career of more than 30 years in international trade; serving as Director of the Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Other positions that he has filled include Director-General of the Department of WTO Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce; Director-General of the Department of Policy Research of the Ministry of Commerce.
Ambassador Zhang holds a bachelor’s degree in Law, a Master’s degree in International Relations. Zhang is a PhD holder in International Politics from Peking University.
