Pierre Sauvé

pierre.sauve@ecipe.org

Areas of expertise

• Dynamics of regional integration (Transatlantic relations; North America)
• Foreign direct investment policy
• International trade
• Public services – EU services liberalization
• Regulatory reform
• Trade and development
• Trade in services
• Trade-related capacity building/aid for trade
• World Trade Organization

Pierre Sauvé is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a non-resident Senior Research Fellow and faculty member at the World Trade Institute, in Berne, Switzerland, where he directs a four year Swiss National Science Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries (2005-08). He is a Visiting Fellow and Research Associate in the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, U.K. and also holds a Visiting Professor appointment in the International Relations Department at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium. He has taught since 1999 in the Academy of International Law’s annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. Mr. Sauvé was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques’ (Sciences-Po) in Paris, France, in 2003-04. Since January 2003, he has served as a Paris-based consultant with the World Bank, working on a range of trade-related capacity-building projects.

During 1993-2002, he served as Senior Economist and Division Head within the Trade Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he oversaw the Directorate’s work on the post-Uruguay Round trade agenda. On leave from the OECD during 1998-2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard, in addition to teaching graduate level courses on the theory and practice of international trade, he served as a fellow of the Kennedy School’s Centre for Business and Government. During the same period, he was also appointed non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C., where his research focused on the economic, political and legal forces shaping the evolution of the multilateral trading system. He was appointed Non-Resident Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Business and Government in 2000-2001.

Prior to joining the OECD, he served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations. Before joining the NAFTA negotiating team, he was an Economic Affairs Officer in the secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva, Switzerland, where he served in both the Group of Negotiations on Services and the Trade Policies Review Divisions. He was also a staff member of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements, in Basle, Switzerland, and served as Economic Advisor to the Government of Québec's Executive Council Ministry during the course of the Canada-United States free trade negotiations.

Mr. Sauvé was educated at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Carleton University in Canada, and at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom. He has published widely on policy issues relating to international trade, investment and the regulation of industry. His most recent books include Trade Rules Behind Borders: Essays on Services, Investment and the New Trade Agenda, London: Cameron May Publishers (2003) and (with Aaditya Mattoo, eds), Domestic Regulation and Services Trade Liberalisation, Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press and The World Bank (2003).

Recent media coverage

• Towards Improved Negotiating Modalities in Services Trade (Pierre Sauvé writes in Bridges.)

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Speeches and presentations

• Warwick Commission Inaugural Meeting, 23-24 February 2007 (Statement by Pierre Sauvé)