Manfred Elsig (born 1970 in

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, Valais) i
Deputy Managing Director
and Professor of International Relations at the

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of the

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, Switzerland (since 2014). He was director of the

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(SNSF)-funde
NCCR Trade Regulation
from 2013 until the project ended in 2017. He is co-founder of the collaborativ
Design of Trade Agreements (DESTA) database
and th
Electronic Database of Investment Treaties
He has published more than 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He is one of the editors of th
World Trade Review
and Member of the Governing Council of th
Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS)
Professor Elsig studied political science at the universities of Bern and

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. He received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on

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trade policy. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as a post-doc fellow at the World Trade Institute and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His research focuses primarily on the politics of

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, regional

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, European trade policy, international organisations, US–EU relations, and private actors in

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."Manfred Elsig

retrieved 2018-03-07

Employment history

Assistant Professor of International Relations, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, (2009-2013) Post-doctoral fellow, World Trade Institute, Bern and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (2005-2009) Teaching fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (2004-2005) Personal advisor, Minister of Economy of Canton Zurich (2002-2004) Public policy expert, UBS financial services group (2001-2002) Trade diplomat, Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs (1997-1999)

Selected books

The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Michael Hahn and Gabriele Spilker) (2019).
Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit For Purpose
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Bernard Hoekman and

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) (2017)
Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Andreas Dür) (2015)
Governing the World Trade Organization: Past, Present and Beyond Doha
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Thomas Cottier) (2011)
The EU’s Foreign Economic Policies: A Principal-Agent Perspective
London: Routledge (co-edited with Andreas Dür) (2011)
The EU’s Common Commercial Policy. Institutions, Interests and Ideas
Aldershot: Ashgate Publisher (2002)

References

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