Häberli Christian



Dr Christian Häberli
christian.haeberli(at)wti.org
+41 31 631 30 71
  • Food Security
  • Agriculture
  • Trade
  • Development
  • WTO Dispute Settlement

Christian Häberli is a Senior Research Fellow at the WTI. He works and lectures on various trade, agriculture and development policy issues. His main research topic is food security from a trade and investment perspective. He graduated in 1977 with a Ph.D. on the subject of African Investment Law; he also obtained a degree in Development Sciences in Geneva (1975) and in Theology in Bern (2009). Professional career for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and for the Swiss Government with assignments in Madagascar, Thailand, Nepal, and Switzerland.

 

As a trade negotiator for Switzerland in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) he participated in the Uruguay Round and in the Doha Round from 1986 to 2007. He chaired the WTO Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session); since 1996 and without interruption he has served in fifteen dispute settlement cases, including EC – Bananas, EC – Biotech, Japan – Apples, China – Trading Rights and United States – Country of Origin Labelling (COOL).

 

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Organisational affiliation

Work Packages
HI, Horizontal Issues WP4, Trade, Development and Migration
Clusters
4.1 Food security
Projects
4.1.1, Food security: assessing too ... 4.1.2, Food security as a human rig ... 4.1.3, Food Security in Swiss Const ... 4.1, The Enabling clause revisite ... 4.3, References to domestic labou ... 4.4, Food Security, WTO and FDI i ... HI 2, Graduation and progressive r ...

Publications

God, the WTO – and hunger Land Grab v Food Security: Can G ... Ethiopia's Food Reserve Policies ... CAP Reform vs WTO: Crop Diversif ... The Challenge of Food Security. ... The WTO and Food Security: What’ ... Grab the land for more food secu ... Food Security, Foreign Direct In ... Regional Trade Agreements and do ... Le Blocage des Réformes dans la ... Der Reformstau in der schweizeri ... Right to Food and Right to Water ... Are Switzerland's Agricultural P ... Do WTO Rules Improve or Impair t ... Regulating biofuels production w ... The Regulatory Framework for Mul ... Can the World Trade Organization ... Liberalising Trade and Investmen ... Binding Tariff Preferences for D ... Rethinking Structural Reform in ... A Preliminary Impact Assessment ... A ‘Beyond WTO’ Scenario for Swis ... Food Crises and the WTO: World T ... From an Ugly Duckling to a Beaut ...

Events

Deficits of Current Women Empowe ... Towards Integration of Food Secu ... The Right to Food: Need for Acti ... Round Table Discussion on “WTO i ... Dispute settlement - How does it ... Land grab and human rights: mapp ... China's Recent Experience in WTO ... HUNGER IN A WORLD OF PLENTY International Agricultural Trade ... Dispute settlement - How does it ... Nacht der Forschung (Researchers ... The state of play of the DSU rev ... Dispute settlement - How does it ... WTI Open Day - Tag der offenen T ... Klimawandel und Ernährungssicher ... WTI Summer Academy on Internatio ... The Second Biennial Global Confe ... WTO dispute settlement: How does ...

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