Ward Natasha Fiona

Natasha F. Ward is the Trade Policy Consultant with the Barbados Private Sector Trade Team and a Lecturer in the M.Sc. in International Trade Policy programme at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services of the University of the West Indies, Barbados (http://www.shridathramphalcentre.org). Natasha’s research interests include trade in services, investment, regional integration issues and  migration.   She holds a Master of International Law and Economics degree (summa cum laude) from the World Trade Institute in Berne and a Doctorate in International Relations from the University of the West Indies.  Natasha has worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and has had brief stints at World Trade Organisation, World Trade Institute and the American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago. Her most recent publications include “Tourism Services Liberalization, The role of Business Advocacy, in the Caribbean – European Union EPA Negotiations, case study” International Trade Center, Geneva, 2008 (co-authored with Pierre Sauvé); “Services and Investment in the EC-CARIFORUM EPA: Innovation in Rule Design and Implications for Africa” (co-authored with Pierre Sauvé) in: Faber, G. and Orbie, J. (eds) Beyond Market Access for Economic Development: EU-Africa Relations in Transition, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 137-172 and “The EC-CARIFORUM Partnership Agreement: Assessing the Outcome on Services and Investment,”, ECIPE Discussion Paper, January, 2009.