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Valentin Zahrnt
Areas of expertise
- WTO Negotiations
- WTO & Civil Society
- Agricultural Policies
- Institutional Economics
- International Relations
Valentin Zahrnt is a Research Associate and Resident Scholar at ECIPE. He is also Director of Zahrnt Consulting & Communication, a service specialized in trade and sustainable development, providing policy-oriented advice and writing, editing, and translating texts.
Holding a Ph D in international economics, his research interests are centered on WTO negotiations: Which benefits do governments seek, which costs do they fear when negotiating trade agreements? How do domestic constituents influence states’ negotiating positions? And how do states choose their bargaining strategies?
Currently, he is working for ECIPE on a project on agricultural negotiations in the WTO. The objective is to analyze the problems encountered in the Doha Round in order to develop targeted recommendations for regulatory and institutional reform of the WTO.
Valentin Zahrnt has studied at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), the National University of Singapore, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Freiberg. Subsequently, he has conducted a post-graduate research project at the University of Geneva.
ECIPE Publications
- Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 06/2008)
Recent media coverage
- Fertile Ground for Farm-Subsidy Reform (Valentin Zahrnt on the future direction of European agricultural policy in the WSJ)
- Le temps de la libéralisation unilatérale des échanges (Valentin Zharnt in Les Echos)
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Other publications
- Gain Claiming and Inefficiency in WTO Negotiations (International Negotiation 12 (3):363-388.)
- Domestic Constituents and the Formulation of WTO Negotiating Positions: What the Delegates Say (World Trade Review 7 (2): 1-29)