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WTO Director-General Mike Moore told the Board “We have only just
touched upon the opportunities offered by distance learning and more
active skill-based networks in member countries. We do not want to
duplicate what other institutions are doing. We want to cooperate with
them and share facilities, the better to serve our Members. This is
one way in which we are already implementing the Doha decisions on
building capacity in a coherent manner.”
The
Joint Consultative Board was created last June by the Director-General
as part of the restructuring of the organization's technical
cooperation and training activities, which also saw the establishment
of the WTO Training Institute. The Board, which is a consultative
entity acting in an advisory capacity, will monitor the training
activities of the Training Institute on the basis of periodic meetings
and reports, providing fresh ideas, expert advice and contributing to
greater coherence among agencies involved in training activities.
To
this end, the Director General has secured the participation of
leading agencies, reputed academics and WTO experts as Members of the
Board, including the World Bank, the International Trade Centre (ITC),
the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),
Professor Richard Baldwin, from the Geneva Graduate Institute of
International Studies, Professor Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of
the World Trade Institute (Berne) and Director of the Institute of
European and International Economic Law (University of Berne), and
Professor Yvonne Van Rooy, from the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant in
the Netherlands.
The
WTO Members and the Secretariat will be respectively represented by
the chairpersons of WTO bodies directly interested in training
activities: the Committee on Trade and Development, the Sub-committee
on Least Developed Countries and the Committee on Budget, Finance and
Administration; by the directors of the Training Institute and the
Technical Cooperation Divisions; and by three WTO experts in law,
economics and training acting in their personal advisory capacity.
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