WTO:Invitation To Launch Event For WTO-World Bank Publication "Trade in Services for Development"

 

31 May 2023 Invitation To Launch Event For WTO-World Bank Publication “Trade in Services for Development” – Monday 3 July –

Dear journalist, Date/time: Monday 3 July, 14:00 Geneva time Via Zoom only With welcome remarks by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO Director-General, and World Bank President, Ajay Banga. Full list of speakers:  Rt Honourable Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State, United Kingdom Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica Dr Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Minister of Trade and Industry, Rwanda Dr Barbara Kotschwar, Executive Director of Visa’s Economic Empowerment Institute  Hilda Kabushenga Kragha, CEO, The African Talent Company Dr Kati Suominen, Founder and CEO of Nextrade Group WTO Deputy Director-General Anabel González, WTO  H.E. Zhanar Aitzhan, Ambassador of Kazakhstan, Chair of the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services  Martin Roy, Counsellor, WTO Secretariat Pierre Sauvé, Senior Trade Specialist, World Bank Group  The programme is here. The publication is available in the media newsroom under embargo. The embargo will be lifted on Monday 3 July at 2pm, Geneva time CEST. Register for the event here. All information will be available here. Details: This high-level event will mark the launch of the WTO's first publication with the World Bank under the organization's new President, Ajay Banga. It will also be the organizations' first joint publication on services trade. The session will allow to make the case for advancing the services agenda at the WTO and for stepped up levels of Aid for Trade for services in the context of a 'Trade in Services for Development' (TS4D) initiative. For any media-related query, you can contact pressbriefing@wto.org. Sincerely, WTO Media Team