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Dr Nicolette Butler is a specialist in international economic law, with particular expertise in global trade and investment policy. Her research spans international dispute settlement, digital trade, and the trade-environment nexus, including recent work on the legal definition and liberalisation of environmental services.

She has published widely in these areas, including in leading journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and the Netherlands International Law Review. She has served as Principal Investigator on a number of academic and policy-facing projects and has worked in both academic and governmental settings, including a role in the UK Department for Business and Trade. She has also held visiting positions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

nicolette.butler@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Jasem Tarawneh is a Reader in Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and the Programme Director for the Specialist Intellectual Property Law Programmes. Prior to joining Queen Mary, Jasem lectured at the University of Manchester. He also worked for several years as a corporate lawyer and arbitrator in Europe and the Middle East before joining academia. Jasem has a wide range of publications in leading journals in his areas of research interest, including intellectual property, international dispute resolution, and international trade and investment. He has an established track record of obtaining research funding and has worked as Principal Investigator on several externally funded projects by the British Academy, ASPECT and the ESRC IAA. Jasem held a number of visiting posts in several renowned universities and has worked and continues to work with several distinguished international organisations, such as EUIPO and WIPO.

j.tarawneh@qmul.ac.uk

Ronald Steenblik is a Senior Technical Advisor to the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO). Over the last four decades he has studied issues at the interface between trade and the environment. During most of the period 2001–18 he was a senior analyst in the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate and among the areas he worked on was trade in environmental goods and services (EGS). Since retiring from the OECD, he has produced several reports for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on EGS. He is also a leading expert on environmentally harmful subsidies.

Tom is Director of the Trade Justice Movement, the UK's coalition of charities and trade unions working for trade rules which deliver for people and planet. In this role, Tom regularly engages with parliamentarians and government officials around how the UK can align its trade policies with its climate priorities. Tom has campaigned for fairer and greener UK trade policies since 2015.

tom.wills@tjm.org.uk

Nick has been the director of Global Justice Now since 2013, and a campaigner against corporate globalisation and for global economic justice for over 20 years. He was a leading voice in the UK and European movement against the now‑abandoned EU‑US trade deal (TTIP), and subsequently against the US-UK trade deal, about which he wrote a short book, Trade Secrets. He regularly contributes political analysis to publications including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Red Pepper and Soundings journal.

nick.dearden@globaljustice.org.uk

Andrew Lang is Professor of International Law and Global Governance at the University of Edinburgh, and has held previous positions as the London School of Economics (2006-2017) and the Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (2004-2006). He has expertise in all aspects of international trade law, and his current research includes projects on: the international trade aspects of carbon accounting, including carbon credits and carbon border adjustments; non-governmental sustainability standards; sustainability governance in critical minerals supply chains; and the interaction of international trade and international climate change law.

andrew.lang@ed.ac.uk