TINA Advisory Board
If you wish to contribute to the further development of TINA, the ESCAP Secretariat would like to invite you to become a member of the TINA Advisory Board. For more information, please contact [email protected] - this page will be updated regularly.Deborah Elms
Executive Director, Asian Trade Centre
Deborah Elms is also the Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Asia Business Trade
Association and the Board Director of the Asian Trade Centre Foundation.
She is also Vice Chair of the Asia Business Trade Association (ABTA). She sits on the
International Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Trade Professionals Alliance and is
Chair of the Working Group on Trade Policy and Law. She is also a senior fellow in the
Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Trade Academy. Prior to that, she was head of the
Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations (TFCTN) and Senior fellow of
International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her current research involves the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and E-commerce, Digital Trade and Global Value Chains.
Mostafa Abid Khan
Trade policy analysit and trade negotiator, Bangladesh
Mostafa Abid Khan is currently serving in Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) as Member. He
served in various capacity in the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in Geneva, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI), WTO, UNESCAP as
well as in BTC. His areas of expertise are trade policies, trade negotiations, WTO, regional
trading arrangement, UNCTAD and LDC issues. During last twenty-three years, he has been the
key negotiator in the areas of bilateral trade talks, SAPTA, SAFTA, APTA, Trade Preferential
System among OIC Countries, BIMSTEC FTA, WTO, UNCTAD and LDC plan of Action and was involved
in drafting SAFTA, BIMSTEC FTA, APTA, SAARC Agreement on Trade in Services and some
LDC-specific WTO submissions and WTO decisions. He attended all WTO Ministerial Conferences
since Doha Ministerial as a member of Bangladesh delegation, UNCTAD XIII and XIV and
mid-term review of IPoA for LDCs.
Paul Baker
Founder and CEO, International Economics Ltd.
Paul Baker is the founder
and CEO of International Economics Ltd. He has been team lead or lead economist for impact
assessments of FTAs in Asia and Africa, and supported different governments in Africa,
Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean. He was an adviser in negotiations for Caribbean-EU EPA and
WTO, SADC-EU EPA, COMESA-EU EPA Market Access, Ethiopia-EU EPA and WTO accession, Vietnam-EU
FTA and WTO accession, Indonesia-EU FTA, and Pacific Island-EU Market Access. He was also
the EPA negotiation expert for the ACP-EPA PMU in Brussels in 2005-6. He has been a lead
economist for monitoring and evaluations of FTAs for the Pacific region, New Zealand, UK and
Southern African region. He teaches economic modelling at various universities, including
the University of Barcelona and College of Europe. Paul completed an MSc (Econ) in Economics
from the University of London (SOAS), a Maîtrise in Financial Engineering from the
University of Nantes (France) and completed Executive Programmes in Systems Dynamics,
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics at MIT, and Computational Computing in Python
at the University of California Berkeley.
Pierre Sauvé
Senior Trade Specialist, World Bank
Pierre Sauvé is a Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank’s
Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, where he leads the Bank’s work on
trade governance with key stakeholder organizations in Geneva and Paris. Previously, he
served as a faculty member and as Director of Studies and Director of External Programs and
Academic Partnerships at the University of Bern's World Trade Institute (WTI), in
Switzerland. He holds visiting professor appointments at the World Trade Institute and at
the University of Barcelona, whose LL.M. program in international economic law and policy
(IELPO) he advises. He held Visiting Professor appointments at the College of Europe in
Bruges, Belgium in 2006-17 and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Paris,
France and the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003-05. He served as a
senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993-2002, a period during which he also
taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed
Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1998-2000).
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 (1991-93). He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) as well as the Bank for International
Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland (1987-88). Mr. Sauvé was educated in economics and
international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in
Canada and at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. He has advised the
governments of a number of OECD and developing countries and served as a consultant to
leading regional and multilateral agencies involved in trade, finance and development.
Sok Siphana
Managing Partner, SokSiphana & Associates, Cambodia
Sok Siphana is a practicing attorney and the Managing Partner at SokSiphana&Associates
and a Member of Zicolaw. He is also serving as Senior Advisor to the Royal Government of
Cambodia. Previously from 1999 to 2005, he served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of
Commerce, where he was instrumental in negotiating Cambodia’s accession to the World Trade
Organization. From October 2005 to July 2009 he served as Director at the International
Trade Center, a joint technical agency of UNCTAD and WTO in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Sok is
holder of a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Widener University School of Law in Delaware, United
States (1992) and a Ph.D. from Bond University School of Law in Queensland, Australia
(2009). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. on Comparative Laws with the Université de Paris
II, Panthéon-Assas.