Jean Monnet Network: Trade & Investment in Services Associates (TIISA)

Industry Professor Jane Drake-Brockman: Network Director, The University of Adelaide

Jane Drake-Brockman is an expert on international trade and regional integration and widely recognized as Australia’s foremost industry expert on services competitiveness and trade in services. She joined IIT in 2015 after 3 years with the International Trade Centre (Geneva).

Jane teaches Trade in Services in the MITD programme and has previously taught Macroeconomics for Business Executives in the MBA programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Current research includes the impact of new technologies and digital trade. Recent publications include “Potential Benefits of an Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement: Key Issues and Options”, The University of Adelaide Press, Oct 2018 (co-edited with Patrick Messerlin) and 'Services', Global Value Chains Policy Series, World Economic Forum White Paper, Geneva, June 2018.

Jane is the Founder of the Australian Services Roundtable, the peak business body for the services industries and co-convenor of the Asia Pacific Services Coalition. She has served on the Board of the International Chamber of Commerce in Australia, on the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Coalition of Services Industries and as convenor of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) Taskforce on Services. She was a central architect of the APEC Services Competitiveness Roadmap and is credited in the literature with the original business-driven idea behind the plurilateral TISA negotiations in Geneva.

Jane is a former senior Australian diplomat, serving as Chief Economist in DFAT, as Assistant Secretary, Services & Intellectual Property Branch and Minister/Charge d’Affaires at the Australian Delegation to the EU in Brussels. She studied Economics at the Australian National University as a National Undergraduate Scholar and started her career as the first female cadet with the Australian Treasury. Before joining DFAT, she spent 8 years at the OECD Secretariat (Paris) and 2 years with the Commonwealth Secretariat (London). 

Professor Joseph Francois: Co-Director, World Trade Institute

Professor Joseph Francois is Managing Director and professor of economics at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern since 2015.  He also serves as deputy director of the NCCR Trade Regulation. Previously he was professor of economics (economic theory) at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He is a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, senior research fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. Earlier posts include: Professor of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, research economist for the World Trade Organization, and chief of research and acting director of economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission. He studied economics at the University of Maryland and economics and history at the University of Virginia.

Associate Professor Magnus Lodefalk: Co-Director, Örebro University

Associate Professor Magnus Lodefalk is a senior lecturer in economics. As a trade economist, he has broad experience of analysis of international trade and trade policy, with a focus on the WTO. Lodefalk has headed capacity building in the area as well as lectured extensively on issues related to international trade and trade policy. Lodefalk's current research is focused on structural changes in business - such as the servicification of manufacturing - and on the drivers, barriers and effects of globalisation. His research on globalisation has a particular emphasis on the role of international networks and migration for firm internationalisation.  Associate Professor Lodefalk is a member of several networks, including MONA, GTAB and OUTSEED.

Dr Hein Roelfsema: Co-Director, Utrecht University

Dr Hein Roelfsema is A/Professor for International Economics and coordinator of the Master International Management. He is also Director of the University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, was on the board for the University’s knowledge valorization policy implementation, and chairs the combined Dutch Centers for Entrepreneurship. He has vast experience in external trade policies of the EU, having served as trade policy expert in many Phare project in the 1990s.  After that, his attention shifted to EU trade relations with Africa, where he became one of the leading experts in the Economic Partnership Agreements. Most of his recent academic works focuses on foreign direct investment in Asia and internationalization of firms from emerging markets. Dr Roelfsema holds a PhD from Utrecht University and is widely known as radio commentator for the leading Business News Radio on international economics and investments.

Professor Ingo Borchert: Sussex University

Professor Ingo Borchert joined the Economics Department at Sussex as a Lecturer in January 2012. He has been an Economist at the World Bank from 2008-2011, where he helped construct the global Services Policy Restrictions Database. His research interests focus on trade in services and the impact of regulatory measures in major services sectors on market structure and performance in developing countries. He has also studied services trade flows during the recent financial crisis, as well as North-South trade flows and the effects of preferential market access for developing countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, where he has also taught development economics.

Professor Bryan Mercurio: Co-Director, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Bryan Mercurio is Professor, Associate Dean (Research) and Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Professor Mecurio is a leading expert in the field of international economic law (IEL), with a particular interest in WTO law, the intersection between IEL and intellectual property rights, free trade agreements and increasingly international investment law. He is the author of one of the most widely prescribed case books on WTO law (2018 3rd edition, Hart Publishing, with Simon Lester and Arwel Davies) and editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements (2015 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, with Simon Lester and Lorand Bartels). He has published articles in all of the leading trade journals (some of his work is available for download) and maintains an active consultancy for governments, industry and law firms.

Professor Xinquan TU: University of International Business and Economics

Professor Xinquan TU is Dean and Professor of the China Institute for WTO Studies of University of International Business and Economics located in Beijing, China, also where he received this Ph.D. in international trade in 2004. During 2006-2007, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2009, he was invited as a visiting fellow by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). He conducted his research on the GPA under the WTO Secretariat for three months in 2011. He was also a visiting scholar at SWP (German Institute of International and Security Affairs), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, and Indiana University on a variety of trade topics. His research and teaching focus on Chinese trade policy, WTO, Government procurement, US trade policy, and US-China trade relations.

Professor Shin-Yi Peng: National Tsinghua University

Shin-yi Peng is a Professor of Law at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and the Associate Dean of NTHU’s College of Technology Management. Prior to her current position, she was on secondment as Commissioner at the National Communications Commission (2012-2016). She was the Director of the Institute of Law for Science and Technology at NTHU (2007-2012). Member of the New York Bar.  She has spoken at the WTO Headquarters in Geneva and various international conferences in Europe, America and Asia.  She serves in an advisory and consultative capacity to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, advising the government on trade law and policy issues.  She is a member of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for resolving WTO disputes.  She was an Executive Council member (2012-2016) and is Co-Executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL).

POLICY BRIEFS & OPINION PIECES  

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TIISA WORKING PAPER SERIES 

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The TIISA Network offers research grants of between €500 - €5000 to support research in the field of trade and investment in services and which improves knowledge of or contributes to the process of European economic integration in services.

Targeted research themes include:

• Services trade and investment policy-making and implementation
• Digital aspects of the EU Services Directive and single market and the implications for harmonisation of domestic regulation across the EU Member States
• Best practice in managing global and regional mobility of services providers
• EU approach to Investor/State Dispute Settlement
• Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on global and EU trade in services
• Digital trade and e-commerce

Round 1 2020

Round 2 2020

Round 3 2021

Round 4 2021

Eligible candidates

• PhD and PhD-equivalent Students, Young Professionals and Early Career Researchers

Eligibility

• The paper must address issues related to international trade and investment in services.  Where possible, it is anticipated that the issues will have relevance to the process of economic integration in services and to be relevant to current issues in the European Union.
• The author(s) of the paper should possess or be engaged in the process of gaining a PhD or PhD-equivalent degree, be a young professional or a researcher at an early stage of their career.  Applicants will be asked to provide a statement from their supervisor or a senior colleague to establish that this condition is met.
• In the case of co-authored papers, this requirement shall apply to at least one author.  
• To be considered for the award, essays cannot exceed 10,000 words.

Round 1 2020

Round 2 2021

No eligible candidates 

Round 3 2021

Developed collaboratively by the partner institutions, these globally relevant modules on Trade and Investment in Services explore the EU approach to services trade and investment policy-making and implementation. 

TIISA Network Director, Professor Jane Drake-Brockman of The University of Adelaide in collaboration with the TIISA Network partners produced over 35 online learning modules.

Introduction to Digital Trade

1. What is digital trade
2. Why do we need new trade rules?
3. WTO moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions
4. Trends in bilateral & regional agreements
5. WTO negotiations on e-commerce
6. Barriers to digital trade
7. Digital regulatory cooperation
8. Interoperability of digital standards
9. Privacy standards
10. Cyber security standards
11. Telecoms and competition policy
12. Digital services taxation

TIISA would like to acknowledge and give special thanks to Queen Mary University of London and the European University Institute in the production of the Introduction to Digital Trade modules, specifically Gabriel Gari, Reader in International Economic Law at Queen Mary University of London and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Senior Associate with Council on Economic Policies and Visiting Professor at Örebro Univeristy, Sweden. 

Introduction to Trade in Services 

TIISA Network Director, Professor Jane Drake-Brockman of The University of Adelaide presents each of these modules. 

1. Introduction
2. The rise of services
3. Rise of global value chains
4. Servicification of the economy
5. Service value chains
6. Service competitiveness

Governance of Trade in Services 

The following modules are presented by TIISA Network Director Professor Jane Drake-Brockman, The University of Adelaide and
Professor Bryan Mercurio, TIISA Network Partner Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

1. Introduction: Governance of Trade in Services
2. Introduction to WTO and TATS
3. Understanding GATS Services Schedules
4. Global Governance of Investment
5. Approaches to Services & Investment in Free Trade Agreements
6. Regional Integration in Services
7. Updating the WTO: Recent Developments

Measuring Barriers 

The following modules are presented by Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Senior Associate with Council on Economic Policies and Visiting Professor at Örebro University, Sweden. 

1. Measurement of barriers to Trade in Services (pt 1)
2. Measurement of barriers to Trade in Services (pt 2)