Ignacio García Bercero

Ignacio García Bercero is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in trade policy and its relationship with regulatory policies and other global policies.

He covers the reform of multilateral trade institutions, new trends in bilateral trade policies, relationships between strategic partners and the interface between trade, climate policies and economic security issues.

He speaks English, Spanish and French.

He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science of University College London. Previously, he was a Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, where his research focused on World Trade Organization (WTO) reform. His work in the European Commission included contributing to the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. In the WTO, he served as Head of legal affairs and dispute settlement, Counsellor in the Delegation to the UN and Chief Negotiator for free trade agreements with South Korea, India and the United States. He has also overseen relations with Mediterranean countries on trade and sustainable development. His last position in the Commission was Director for strategy, multilateral affairs and economic analysis. Ignacio holds a LLM from University College London. 

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