Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute, in Berne, Switzerland, where he directs the WTI's flagship Master of International Law ansd Economics (MILE) programme and leads a Swiss National Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries (2005-9). He also co-directs the newly-crated Masters In International Economic Law and Policy at the University of Barcelona. He is a Research Associate in the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, U.K., and also holds a Visiting Professor appointment in the International Relations Department at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium. Since 1999, he has taught in the Academy of International Law’s annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. He is a Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), in Brussels, Belgium, since its launch in October 2006. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), in Paris, France, in 2003–2004 and has worked as a Paris-based consultant for the World Bank since January 2003. From 1998–2000, he taught at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during which period he was also appointed Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, DC. He served as Canada's negotiator for services in discussions leading to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and worked in the secretariats of the Bank for International Settlements, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the OECD. 

His research interests focus on the evolution of rule-making for services trade and investment and the impact that regional integration agreements exert on the design and operation of the multilateral trading system.

Comparative regionalism in services rule-making. Analysis of the treatment of temporary movement of service suppliers in trade and non-trade agreements, e.g. FTAs, RIAs, bilateral guest worker programmes and labour market agreements (Art. Vbis GATS) as well as GATS Mode 4.