Gary P. Sampson
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Melbourne Business School
Melbourne Business School is a business school located in Melbourne, Australia that has been ranked in the Financial Times since 2005 and The Economist Top 20 in the World. MBS was placed as the second best business school in the Asia-Pacific in the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report....
(MBS).
In 1996, he was appointed Director at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization . GATT was signed in 1947 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World...
in Geneva
Geneva
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, and then in 1995, Director at the World Trade Organisation where he has directed a number of divisions. In 2001 he was appointed Senior Counsellor in the Office of the Director General at the WTO.
He is the most highly placed Australian to have worked at both GATT and the WTO.
During his time at the WTO he taught in the Advanced Management Program of INSEAD
INSEAD
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as well as Executive Development Programs and the MBA. He teaches on a regular basis in TRIUM
Trium
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, the combined Executive MBA of Stern School of Business in New York
New York
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, London School of Economics
London School of Economics
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, and HEC School of Management
HEC School of Management
HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate...
in Paris
Paris
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. He has taught in the MBA and EMBA programs at MBS since 1999.
He is trained as an economist and after completing a Doctor of Philosophy at Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
, he was awarded a post-doctoral research grant by Cambridge University in England. He was subsequently appointed Senior Lecturer in Economics at Monash University. In 1975 he moved to Geneva where he worked with various Divisions of the United Nations
United Nations
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.
From 1984-86, he was Senior Fellow in Economic Policy with the Reserve Bank of Australia
Reserve Bank of Australia
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, and Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University. He also held various advisory positions with the Australian Industries Commission and the Economic Policy Advisory Committee in the Office of the Prime Minister.
He also currently holds the Chair in International Economic Governance at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the United Nations University
United Nations University
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in Tokyo
Tokyo
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.
He has written extensively on all areas of international economics and published widely in both academic and more popular press. His most recent books include "Trade, Environment and the Millennium", "The Role of the WTO in Global Governance", "Regional Integration and the Multilateral Trading System: Issues for the Future", and "The WTO and Sustainable Development".
External links
- Staff profile at the Melbourne Business SchoolMelbourne Business SchoolMelbourne Business School is a business school located in Melbourne, Australia that has been ranked in the Financial Times since 2005 and The Economist Top 20 in the World. MBS was placed as the second best business school in the Asia-Pacific in the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report....