“The WTO After Hong Kong: Is Reform Necessary to Save the Doha Round?”

Friday, February 10, 2006 11:45 AM EST (UTC–05:00)
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Dr. Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe is Associate Professor and Director of the Masters in Public Administration program in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Wolfe, originally from Toronto, Ontario, began his BA in History at York University in 1968. He received an MA in Canadian Studies from Carleton University in 1976 and a doctorate in Political Studies from Queen's University in 1995. From 1976 to 1995 he was a foreign service officer with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, serving abroad in Dhaka, Bangladesh (1977-79) and in the Canadian Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (1981-85). In Ottawa he worked in the National Security Section, the U.S. Trade and Economic Relations Division, as Executive Assistant to the Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Prime Minister's Personal Representative, Economic Summit, and in the International Economic Relations Division.

Wolfe joined the faculty of the School of Policy Studies in July 1995 where he teaches policy analysis and trade policy. He is the coordinator of Canadian participation in the Canada-UK Colloquium, a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Relations, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies. Outside Queen's he is a member of the Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network and the Economic Negotiation Network.