Debra Steger

CIGI Senior Fellow

Debra Steger is a CIGI senior fellow and professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, where she specializes in the areas of international trade and investment, dispute settlement and governance of international organizations. The first director and chief legal adviser to the World Trade Organization Appellate Body from 1995 to 2001, she is also the founder and leader of the EDGE Network global economic governance projects.

Debra Steger Publications

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

WTO Resilient But Changed After Ministerial

The recent ministerial meeting held in Geneva in December, demonstrated that while the Doha Round may be dead, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is resilient, but changed as an organization. In fact, the meeting surprised many hardened observers by producing some tangible deliverables .

Monday, April 11, 2011

Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century (Chinese Translation)

The Chinese edition of Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century was published in early 2011 and is the sixth volume in the China and International Organizations. Edited by CIGI Senior Fellow Debra Steger, the book was first published in 2010 by CIGI, Wilfrid Laurier Press and the International Development Research Centre.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century

This book explains the need for institutional reform of the WTO at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society and relationships with regional trade agreements.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Future of the International Monetary Fund: A Canadian Perspective

CIGI-CIC Special Report
Bessma Momani, Debra Steger, Eric Helleiner, Thomas A. Bernes, Eric Santor, Randall Gemain, C. Scott Clark, Dane Rowlands, Robert Lavigne, Roy Culpepper, and James A. Haley

The CIGI/CIC Special Report on the future of the International Monetary Fund looks at the IMF’s role in the context of the global economic crisis and the new economic and financial governance architecture that is emerging. The report makes recommendations regarding the IMF’s role in the international financial system, governance of the IMF, and IMF functional reforms.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit

CIGI Special G20 Report

CIGI Special G20 Report: Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit is a compendium of brief policy papers by respected academics and practitioners who have studied the G20. The Special Report highlights the breadth of CIGI's research into economic governance, financial regulatory reform and regulation, international trade, and the capacity of the expanded G20 leadership to resolve and ideally prevent future crises.