10:00 

Welcome                     

Dr. Volker Treier, Chief Executive of Foreign Trade, Member of the Executive Board, DIHK

10:05 

Keynote: The Future of Global Trade:  Economic Horizons for the WTO System

Professor Robert Staiger, Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization

10:35 

High Level Panel Discussion: Europe’s role in the world trading system

Sabine Weyand, Director-General, Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission

Dr. Thomas Steffen, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Professor Robert Staiger, Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization

Moderated by: Dr. Volker Treier, DIHK

12:00  Lunch

13:00 

Panel discussion: Plurilateral pathways to overcome the deadlock: E-commerce, Investment Facilitation and more?

Dr. Bettina Waldmann, Former Ambassador of Germany to the WTO

Prof. Dr. Andreas Freytag, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena    

Sara Mohns, Cluster Coordinator Trade and Sustainable Development, GIZ

Klemens Kober, Director Trade Policy, EU Customs, Transatlantic Relations, DIHK

Moderated by: Dr. Achim Kampf, Germany Trade and Invest

14:00 

Closing remarks         

Melanie Vogelbach, Managing Director International Economic Policy, DIHK