Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - WTOs tenth Birthday

Is the WTOs Tenth Birthday Worth Celebrating?
When the World Trade Organization came into being in 1995, it was hailed as a major step in a 50-year process of promoting trade and growth by setting predictable and uniform trade rules. Ten years later:
1) What has the WTO achieved and what have its biggest disappointments been?
2) What are the main challenges that need to be addressed in the years to come?
3) Is the World Trade Organization equipped to fulfil its mission of trade liberalization and regulation in the context of its growing number of member states and an increasingly integrated global economy?
Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor, Columbia University, USA
Joseph Deiss, Federal Councillor of the Economy of the Swiss Confederation
Luiz Fernando Furlan, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade of Brazil
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, United Kingdom; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
Challenger
Neil Kearney, General Secretary, International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation, Brussels
Moderated by
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, USA; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum