"Towards a Global Architecture for Insurance Regulations and Supervision", paper tabled: "International Trade in Services: GATS Mode 4", PROGRES International Seminar, April 2008 Download paper
"What
are the prospects for liberalisation in Services?", to the Wilton Park
Conference No. 856: " Which way forward for international trade negotiations?
The Doha Round and beyond ", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK May
2007 Download
paper
"What do regional policies need to take into account from multilateral rules on the cross-border movements of temporary services workers?" to the RESER 13th Annual International Conference, Mons, Belgium October 2003 Download paper
"The Regulation of Financial Services in relation to risk", Introductory remarks by the organiser, to the 19th PROGRES International Seminar, 18-19 September 2003 in Geneva Download paper
"What are the prospects for liberalisation in Services?", to the Wilton Park Conference No. 712: "The World Trade Negotiations and Prospects for the Cancun Ministerial", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK May 2003 Download paper
"GATS Issues", to the "Symposium on Trade Policy Challenges in East Asia: the New Regionalism and the WTO", Commonwealth Business Council and Singapore Management University, Singapore February 2003 Download paper
"The GATS negotiations on financial services: government proposals", 17 January 2003 Download paper
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services - 'GATS' - its innovative approach to trade rules in the New Economy" to the RESER 12th Annual International Conference, Manchester, UK September 2002 Download paper
STATS on FATS! Statistics on Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services. The new international standard. Prepared for the Mark Twain Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA September 2002 Download paper
"New Developments in the Regulation and Supervision of Financial Services", Introductory remarks by the organiser, to the 18th PROGRES International Seminar, 12-13 September 2002 in Geneva Download paper
"To what degree can services be liberalised in the Round ?" to the 679th Wilton Park Conference: "Prospects for the New Trade Round", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK July 2002 Download paper
"Trends and organisations:
a brief overview", Download
paper
"The liberalisation of trade in financial services", Download
paper
"The liberalisation of banking and securities services", Download
paper
"The liberalisation of insurance services", Download
paper
"China: GATS specific commitments for financial services" Download
paper
to the Workshop on Financial Services on the accession of Vietnam to the
WTO, Hanoi, Vietnam April 2002
"The GATS Negotiations: Financial Services - what have governments proposed?" to the conference on "Developments in World Trade Organisation Law", Trade and Law Committee of the Section on Business Law, International Bar Association, Geneva, Switzerland March 2002 Download paper
"Key challenges for measuring GATS Mode 3: commercial presence" to the World Health Organisation conference on "Assessment of GATS and Trade in Health Services", Geneva, Switzerland January 2002 Download paper
"The position of industry in the GATS 2000 negotiations" to the South Centre Workshop on Trade in Services, Geneva, Switzerland December 2001 Download paper
"Regulatory issues for global services activities: how suppliers using new technologies may be impacted by the rules of the General Agreement on Trade in Services" to the RESER 11th Annual International Conference, Grenoble, France October 2001 Download paper
"How can the General Agreement on Trade in Services be improved ? - A Technical Review" to the Second World Services Congress, Hong Kong September 2001 Download paper
"Regulation and liberalisation under the GATS" to the Symposium on 'Issues confronting the world trading system', WTO, Geneva, Switzerland July 2001 Download paper
"To what degree can services be liberalised ?" to the 642nd Wilton Park Conference: "The World Trade Agenda", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK July 2001 Download paper
"Services: trends, consequences and the effects of a new WTO round" to the 2001 Roundtable on "Services in Transition Economies" of the Committee for Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland June 2001 Download paper
"Services trade, investment and competition in the New Economy and the GATS 2000 negotiations", Applied Service Economics Centre (ASEC) Seminar, Geneva, Switzerland February 2001 Download paper
"Internationally harmonised measures and recognition of foreign equivalent measures" to the Emerging Market Economy Forum, Workshop on "Regulatory reform and the multilateral trading system", OECD, Paris, France December 2000 Download paper
Emerging Market Economy Forum at OECD, Paris. Workshop on Regulatory Reform and the Multilateral Trading System, Paris, 7-8 December 2000 Download paper
"Financial services and the WTO negotiations - a report on some issues raised at the PROGRES Seminar on the regulation of insurance services" to the 7th Conference on "Strategic issues in insurance" of the Geneva Association, London, UK October 2000 Download paper
"The liberalisation of international trade in services: issues of competence and legitimacy for the GATS - and the impact of its rules on institutions" to the RESER 10th Annual International Conference, Bergen, Norway October 2000 Download paper
"To what degree can services be liberalised ?" to the 606th Wilton Park Conference on "Prospects for trade liberalisation in the new Millennium", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK July 2000 Download paper
"Negotiations on trade in services: objectives of Arab countries" for the Conference on "GATS and its effect on the Arab economy", Abu Dhabi January 2000 Download paper
"The role of the state in protecting consumers - the debate in the GATS context" to the Global Insurance Forum, San Francisco, USA December 1999 Download paper
"The draft Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services" for the First World Services Congress, Atlanta, USA November 1999 Download paper
"Insights into the invisible, or where the draft Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is positioned in the statistical firmament" to the RESER 9th Annual International Conference, Madrid, Spain October 1999 Download paper
"Preparing for the third ministerial conference of the world trade organisation (WTO): issues for the member states of the Islamic Development Bank in the built-in services 2000 negotiations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the WTO." Study prepared for the Islamic Development Bank under the supervision of the Islamic Development Bank and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 26 July 1999 Download paper
Study on Trade in Services: Issues for the Member States of the Islamic Development Bank in the Built-in Services Negotiations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the WTO. Download paper
"The Employment Dilemma and the Future of Work" by Orio Giarini and Patrick Liedtke. An Executive Summary by Julian Arkell, 6 July 1998 Download paper
"A review of issues in the GATS negotiations - for lobbyists", tabled at the conference on 'The Future of Services Trade Liberalisation - Services 2000', Coalitions of Service Industries, Ditchley Park, UK April 1998 Download paper
"Services 2000: preparing for the next major services negotiation" to the Annual Conference on Strategic Issues in Insurance of the Geneva Association, London, UK October 1997 Download paper
"The WTO and the Year 2000: preparing for the next major services negotiation" to the XIIth Annual Conference of the Coalitions of Service Industries, Geneva June 1997 Download paper
"Forming and running a national Coalition of Service Industries", January 1997 Download paper
"Regulating Professional Services", a seminar organised by the Employers and Industrialists Federation of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus October 1996 Download paper
"International Engineering Practice: adapting to multiple jurisdictions" to the International Sociological Conference on "Occupations and Professions: changing patterns, definitions and classifications", Nottingham, UK September 1996 Download paper
"Reflections on Key Issues", to the Twelfth PROGRES Seminar on "Services and Trade Liberalisation - The Agenda of the World Trade Organisation", Geneva, Switzerland August 1996 Download paper
"Why Governments should improve services statistics", an aide memoire circulated to the Coalitions of Service Industries February 1996 Download paper
"Influencing the GATS and WTO negotiations: some ideas for priorities and process" to a meeting of the Coalitions of Service Industries, Harvard, Boston, USA October 1995 Download paper
"The statistical picture is seriously incomplete: let's press for it to be improved!" Download paper and "Services interests should influence all WTO policies, not just GATS outcomes" to the World Trade in Services symposium, Harvard, Boston, USA October 1995 Download paper
"The Statistics of Employment: challenges in the service sector" to the Eleventh Seminar on the Service Economy of PROGRES, Geneva, Switzerland September 1995 Download paper
"Technology, Economic Growth and Employment in the Service Sector" to the OECD Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy, Paris June 1995 Download paper (ref: DSTI/STP/TIP(95)11 - being the Rapporteur's Report on the Joint Workshop of OECD and the US Department of Commerce, held in Washington DC, 3-5 May 1995) Download paper
"Services Statistics: the key issues" to the annual conference of the Coalitions of Service Industries, Dublin, Ireland March 1995 Download paper
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Liberalisation Concepts, Structures and Modalities" to the Conference at the on The Uruguay Round Results: a European Lawyers' Perspective, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium November 1994 Download paper
"Professional Services and Trade Liberalisation: influencing government regulatory aims", to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Science, Government, and the Public: the Role of Scientific Societies", Visegrad, Hungary October 1994 Download paper
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Elements, Architecture, Processes (A private sector view)" to the Tenth Seminar on the Services Economy of PROGRES and ASEC, Prague, Czech Republic September 1994 Download paper
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services: the main features and selected issues for the professions" to the Seminar on "International Trade in Services: the Outcome of the Uruguay Round of Negotiations", held by the UK Inter-Professional Group, London, UK June 1994 Download paper
"International Trade Relationships: do liberalisation disciplines recognise the concept of quality?" to the "International Forum on Quality of Service in Insurance and Banking", held by CAPA, Paris, France June 1994 Download paper
"The GATS: lobbying bureaucracy - expert input to political decision-making" to the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France May 1994
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services: what it is, and where it leads" to the professional training programme for Colombian Officials, Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN) Geneva, Switzerland May 1994 Download paper
"Services" to the Conference "Beyond the Uruguay Round", Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium May 1994 Download paper
"Issues arising in Trade Agreements for the Professions", to the Conference on Regulating Expertise: Professionalism in Comparative Perspective of the International Sociological Association in association with Centre de Recherche Médecine Maladie et Sciences Sociales (CERMES), Paris April 1994 Download paper
"Issues arising in Trade Agreements for the Regulated Professions" to the ninth annual seminar on the Service Economy (PROGRES, ASEC), Geneva, Switzerland September 1993 Download paper
"Services: a private sector view" to the GATT Negotiations Conference "Prospects for World Trade", Lisbon, Portugal May 1992
"The GATT Services Agreement and the Professions: negotiations at international levels" to the International Sociological Association Conference on the "Professions in Transition", held at the University, Leicester, UK April 1992
"International trade: the importance of the service industries" to the Seventh Conference of Service Industries Coalitions, Hong Kong October 1991
"The Role of private industry in the GATT services negotiations" to the School for International Economic Relations, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands May 1991
"The GATT Services Agreement: issues for the Professions" to the Workshop on the Regulated Professional Services, the Second Geneva International Forum on Global Services and Trade Liberalisation", Geneva, Switzerland May 1991
"The GATT Services Agreement and the Professions" to the Seventh Annual Seminar on the Service Economy (Progres, ASEC, Promethee), Paris, France May 1991
"British Invisibles, the EC Single Market, and the Services Agreement at GATT" to the Europe in Transition Conference, Toronto, Canada January 1991
"The GATT Uruguay Round: the future of International Trade" keynote speech, EC Committee of American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, Brussels, Belgium November 1990
"The Draft Services Agreement at GATT: a European private sector perspective" to the Services Conference (Hungarian Institute for World Economics, Services World Forum, Promethee), Budapest, Hungary September 1990
"Implications for the Professions of International Liberalisation and Competition Policy" to the XIX International Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Helsinki, Finland June 1990
"Marketing the Invisible: a Testimony to the Intangible" to the Sixth Conference of Coalitions of Service Industries, Sydney, Australia May 1990
"International business and user assessments of a services trade agreement" to the First Geneva International Forum on Global Services and Trade Liberalisation, Geneva, Switzerland May 1990
"An Irish Coalition of Service Industries?" to the Irish Service Industries Seminar, Dublin, Ireland February 1990
"History of, and background to, the Uruguay Round from the perspective of the Professions" to the European Federation of Accountants (FEE) Conference, Vevey, Switzerland February 1990
"Activities and impact of transnational corporations in services" to the Workshop for GNS Negotiators, Montreux, Switzerland November 1989
"The Professions and GATT" to the UK Inter-Professional Group, London, UK November 1989
"The Applicability of the Multilateral Framework to International Trade in Professional Services" to the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN) Geneva, Switzerland July 1989
"The GATT Mid-Term Review: were the private sector concerns addressed?", and "Company Operations in Developing Countries" to the Conference of Service Industries Coalitions, Vevey, Switzerland May 1989
"Services in the round: aims and prospects" to the CBI / ICC seminar on GATT, London, UK January 1989
"The British Invisible Exports Council" Luncheon Speaker, and "Objectives of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations" Discussant CER-GATT Conference, Auckland, New Zealand September 1988 Download paper
"A View from European Exporters of Services" to the Mount Fuji Roundtable on International Trade in Services, near Tokyo, Japan January 1988
"Consultancy and International Trade Policy Issues" to the Advanced Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird University, Glendale, Arizona, USA September 1987 Download paper
"What barriers to trade in Services?" to the conference on "Liberalisation in Financial Markets" Lisbon, Portugal March 1987
"The Multilateral Negotiations on Trade in Services: the perspective of the service industry" to the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN) Geneva, Switzerland February 1987
"Consultants Working Overseas" to the BCB Banking Seminar, London, UK June 1986
"Professional Services: National Treatment, and the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications" to the Second Services Industries Conference, Stockholm, Sweden June 1986
"Assessment of Obstacles to Trade in Services: Consultancy" for the LOTIS Committee's contribution to the UK National Study, London, UK August 1983
"Consultancy: Assessment of Obstacles to Trade in Services" for the LOTIS Committee of the Committee on Invisible Exports, London, UK August 1982
