Patrick Low

Bio

Academic Background

  • 1969-1972 Institute of Chartered Accountants Intermediate examination in England and Wales (accountancy training)

  • 1972-1975 University of Kent, U.K. B.A. (Hons) Econ.

  • 1975-1980 University of Sussex, U.K. PhD (Economics)

Areas of Expertise

  • International trade

Present Position (s)

  • Director –Development and Economic Research, WTO.  Since January 2002

Previous Position (s)  

  • Director, Office of the Director-General, WTO.  09-1999 / 12-2001

  • Director, Economic Research and Analysis, WTO.  05-1997/ 09-1999

  • Counsellor, Trade in Services, WTO. 02-1995/ 04-1997

  • Independent Consultant.  08-1994/ 02-1995

  • Economist, World Bank. 09-1990/ 08-1994

  • University Faculty Member and Consultant, Mexico. 03-1988/ 08-1990

  • Counsellor, different divisions in GATT. 09-1980/ 02-1988

Other Activities and Memberships

Recent Publications

  • "Trade Policy as a Determinant of Industrial Structure: The Case of the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Industry", Working Paper No. 329, Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi (November 1977)

  • "Export Subsidies and Trade Policy: The Experience of Kenya", World Development, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 293-304 (1982)

  • "The Definition of Export Subsidies in GATT", Journal of World Trade Law, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 375-390 (1982)

  • "La Liberalización del comercio y algunos aspectos del diálogo norte-sur", Universitas Económica, (Bogotá, Colombia) (junio de 1983)

  • (with Ramiro Guzmán), "Tropical Products in the Uruguay Round" in Uruguay Round: Papers on Selected Issues, UNCTAD (New York: United Nations, 1989)

  • "The GATT System in Transition: The Relevance of the Traditional Issues" (Published in the Working Paper Series of the Economics Department of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1990)

  • (Editor), International Trade and the Environment, World Bank Discussion Paper No. 159 (Washington D.C.: World Bank, 1992)

Papers in the above volume:

1. (with Raed Safadi) "Trade Policy and Pollution"
2. (with Alexander Yeats) "Do "Dirty" Industries Migrate?"
3. "Trade Measures and Environmental Quality: The Implications for Mexico's Exports"
4. (with Raed Safadi) "International Policy Coordination and Environmental Quality"

  • (Editor), "Mini Symposium on Trade and the Environment" World Economy, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 101-105 (1992)

  • (with Geoffrey Bannister) "North American Free Trade in Textiles and Apparel: A Case of Constrained Liberalization" World Bank Working Paper PR WPS 994 (October 1992)

  • "The International Setting", Conference on Competition Policy for Turkey, Turkish Chamber of Commerce, Istanbul (November 1992) (forthcoming in McMillan volume)

  • Trading Free: The GATT and U.S. Trade Policy. (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1993)

  • "The International Location of Polluting Industries and the Harmonization of Environmental Standards", in Heraldo Muñoz and Robin Rosenberg (eds) Difficult Liaison: Trade and Environment in the Americas, University of Miami, Miami (1993)

  • "Trade and Environment: What Worries the Developing Countries?" Environment Law, Vol. 23, No. 2 (September 1993)

  • "The Free Trade Debate" in Roy E. Green (ed.) The Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993)

  • "Medidas de protección contra contingencias: es un caso especial la agricultura?", paper presented at an FAO-World Bank conference on Price Stabilization for Importable Agricultural Products, Santiago, Chile (October 1993)

  • (with Alexander Yeats) "Levelling the Playing Field: Nontariff Measures in the Uruguay Round", The World Economy No.18, Vol.1 (February 1995)

  • (with John Nash) "The Long and Winding Road: Toward Freer World Trade" Finance and Development Vol 31, No. 3 (September, 1994)

  • (with Carlos Primo Braga and Piritta Sorsa) "The Uruguay Round: A "Good Deal" for Rich and Poor Countries" Policy Focus Overseas Development Council, (No. 7, October 1994)

  • "Market Access Through Market Presence", in New Dimensions of Market Access OECD, Paris (1995)

  • "Preshipment Inspection Services", World Bank Discussion Paper No. 278 (1995)

  • (with Arvind Subramanian) "Beyond TRIMS: A Case for Multilateral Action on Investment Rules and Competition Policy? in W. martin and A. winters (eds.) The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries, Cambridge University Press, 1996

  • "Impact of the Uruguay Round on Asia: Trade in Services and Trade-Related Investment Measures" in Arvind Panagariya et al. (eds.) The Global Trading System and Developing Asia, Oxford University Press, 1997

  • "Multilateral Rules for Competition Policy: What Do We Learn From the Telecommunications Sector?" paper prepared for OECD Conference on Trade Policy and Globalization, Santiago, Chile (November 1995)

  • (with Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian) "Government Procurement in Services" in Hoekman and Mavroidis (eds.) Law and Policy in Public Purchasing, University of Michigan Press volume in Studies in International Trade Policy series, 1997

  • (with Bernard Hoekman and Petros Mavroidis, 1996) “Antitrust, Regulation and Trade Liberalization: Lessons from the Telecommunications Sector.” Mimeo

  • (with Marcelo Olarreaga and Javier Suarez, 1998) "Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment flows?", WTO Working Papers series: ERAD-98-08

  • (with Aaditya Mattoo, 1998) "Reform in Basic Telecommunications and the WTO Negotiations: The Asian Experience", WTO Working Papers series: ERAD-98-01

  • "The Treatment of Subsidies in the WTO Framework" in Ehlerman and Everson (eds.) European Competition Law Annual 1999: Selected Issues in the Field of State Aids Hart Publishing, 2001

Current Research Projects

  • Doha Development Agenda: multiple projects

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