Roderick Abbott
After 10 years doing trade work with the British Government, he spent 30 years in DG Trade at the European Commission. During its time at the Commission, he was working as a central member of the European negotiating teams during two GATT negotiation rounds: the Tokyo Round (1975-79) and the Uruguay Round (1987-93).
In the early years of WTO, he was the EU Ambassador in Geneva and he was later a close collaborator with Pascal Lamy, the Trade Commissioner. After leaving the Commission, he was for three years a Deputy Director General at the WTO in Geneva. He has written about how the Doha Round might have been negotiated differently, and about dispute settlement in the WTO – with a focus on the participation of developing countries in years 1995 to 2005.
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The Trade Consequences of Brexit: How I See the Situation
By: Roderick AbbottThe trade consequences of Brexit are just one element of the overall withdrawal exercise to be triggered by a notification under Article 50 TEU. Withdrawal covers policy areas such as EU jurisdiction...
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Demystifying Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
Investor-State Dispute Settlement, a legal provision in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) or other International Investment Agreements that gives investors a right to call for arbitration with a...
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Nowhere To Go? Surveillance, Privacy Rules and Trade Talks
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThis policy brief outlines the chronology of the developments since Edward Snowden leaked the documents on large-scale electronic surveillance, including PRISM and Tempora programmes, the policy...
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Trade and Development at the Crossroads?
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThis paper seeks to look at EU Trade and Development policies which seem to be at a crucial moment - crucial in the sense of the point at which the two policies meet and cross each other. The two...
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Britain Looks Into the Trade Abyss
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott comments on the Brexit process in Foreign Policy...
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Brexit is not good news for the UK economy
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott gives his opinion on Brexit, with a well deserved dose of...
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Brexit and Services Trade
Erik van der Marel, Philipp Lamprecht and Roderick Abbott comment in Euractiv on Brexit and services...
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UK imports and exports will suffer from Brexit isolation
Rodrick Abbott, Erik van der Marel and Philipp Lamprecht comment on Brexit in...
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Meet the man who negotiated trade for both the UK and the EU
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott talks to Deutsche Welle Business about the art of trade negotiations, negotiating for the EU and for the U.K. and...
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Economic sanctions against Russia: do we face a trade war?
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott on the EU sanctions against Russia in Europe's...
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A Close Look at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott writes about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the Friends of Europe's blog...
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The Doha Round: Where we go from here
By: Roderick AbbottRoderick Abbott comments on Doha Round in Europe's...
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Australia -EU FTA: Is it a Solution?
By: Roderick AbbottPresentation for a conference organised by the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University, November 27-28,...