Sieber-Gasser Charlotte

Charlotte started her PhD in law on South–South preferential trade in services in 2009 and is enrolled at the University of Bern. The PhD is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and part of wider research being conducted within the framework of the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Trade Regulation. She is supervised jointly by Prof. Thomas Cottier and Ass. Prof. Marion Panizzon.

Charlotte obtained her MLaw at the Universities of Bern and Fribourg, Switzerland in 2008 and continued her studies at the University of Manchester, UK where she graduated in 2009 with an MA in Development Studies. She has written about the enforcement of freedom of speech in Russia, the legal protection of people with albinism in Tanzania, Sino-African investments and the role of services trade in circular migration.

Aside from studies and research, Charlotte was a co-founder and chairwoman of the Swiss pro-european youth organisation ‘young european swiss – yes’, a leader of the youth campaign for the the EU-Swiss Agreement on free movement of persons and has worked for a small law firm in Zurich.