On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, I'll be co-hosting an event to celebrate the publication of two new books. Debra Steger's edited collection,
Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, proposes practical ways of modernizing the World Trade Organization (WTO) to adjust to the rise of the emerging economies, cope with the effects of the global economic crisis, and respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century.
My own edited collection,
Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda, focuses on the implementation of a potentially pathbreaking Development Agenda by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that could greatly affect critical international issues of public policy relating to intellectual property.
Both books resulted from collaborative research projects of the
EDGE Network on the Emerging Dynamic Global Economies, funded by Networks of Centres of Excellence Canada and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and are published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, IDRC and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
The event will feature a Roundtable with the following speakers: Thomas A. Bernes, Vice-President of Programs and Acting Executive Director, CIGI; Jennifer Hillman, Member, WTO Appellate Body, and Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund; Rohinton Medhora, Vice-President, Programs, IDRC; Sisule F. Musungu, Executive President, IQsensato; and Don Stephenson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
