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G20 Italy 2021

Digital trade: Top trade negotiation priorities for cross-border data flows and online trade in services

TF3 - Trade, Investment, and Growth
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Gabriel Gari (Queen Mary University of London), Stuart Harbinson (Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong University), Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute), Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås (Örebro University), Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC))
G20 Saudi Arabia 2020

Impact of digital technologies and the fourth industrial revolution on trade in services

TF1 - Trade, Investment, and Growth
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Ingo Borchert (Sussex University), Nigel Cory (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), Ziyang Fan (World Economic Forum), Christopher Findlay (Australian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (AusPECC)), Fukunari Kimura (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)), Hildegunn Kyvik-Nordås (Orebro University, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Magnus Lodefalk (Orebro University), Shin-Yi Peng (National Tsing Hua University), Hein Roelfsema (Utrecht University), Yose Rizal Damuri (Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)), Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC)), Tu Xinquan (University of International Business and Economics, Beijing), Erik van der Marel (European Centre for International Political Economy), Mustafa Yagci (Islamic Development)
G20 Japan 2019

Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth

TF8 - Trade, Investment, and Globalization
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute), Carlos Primo Braga (Evian Group, IMD), Hamid Mamdouh (King & Spalding), J. Bradford Jensen (Georgetown University), Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies), Patrick Low (Asia Global Institute), Pierre Sauvé (The World Bank), Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC))
G20 India 2023

Supply Chain Resilience, Friend-shoring, and the Pursuit of Non-Economic Objectives

TF-1: Macroeconomics, Trade, and Livelihoods: Policy Coherence and International Coordination
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Mia Mikic (Waikato University), Biswajit Nag (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC))

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