Debra Steger
Debra Steger is Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the C.D. Howe Institute. She is President of TradeLab, a global network of international economic law clinics, and she serves on the advisory board of the TradeExperettes. She was the first Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization. During the Uruguay Round, she was Canada’s Principal Legal Counsel and Senior Trade Negotiator. She has been General Counsel of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and practised international trade, investment and competition law in Canada.
Professor Steger has served as a chair and a panelist in dispute settlement cases under the WTO, the NAFTA, and the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade, has been appointed to dispute settlement rosters under trade agreements, and has acted as counsel in WTO and NAFTA disputes. She has managed major international research networks and has published extensively on international trade and investment law, the WTO, and dispute settlement.
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