Bio
Aaron Cosbey is a development economist with more than 25 years of experience in the areas of trade, investment and sustainable development. His work cuts across a number of program areas at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, with emphasis on climate change and energy, trade and investment law and policy, subsidies and green industrial policy. Aaron is actively involved in many trade networks, including Global Affairs Canada’s Environmental Assessment Advisory Group; the Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s Trade and Competitiveness Research Committee; International Trade Canada’s Market Access Advisory Group, as part of the deputy minister for international trade’s Academic Advisory Council on Canadian Trade Policy; as part of the Canadian minister for international trade’s Environmental Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT), where he chaired SAGIT’s Working Group on the FTAA; and the UN Tripartite Panel of Experts to the Second Preparatory Committee Meeting for Rio+20, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Expert Panel on Environmental Impacts of NAFTA.