# Geneva Trade Platform

> Geneva Trade Platform is a platform for global trade leadership, based within the Geneva Graduate Institute. It brings policymakers, academics, practitioners, stakeholders and institutions together to support clearer, more accessible and more constructive engagement on international trade policy.

The Geneva Trade Platform works across global trade policy through convening, capacity building, project incubation and accessible information. Its work includes events, Geneva Trade Week, insights, resources and partnerships with governments, international organisations, NGOs, academia, donors, funders, the private sector and students.

## Website

- Home: https://genevatradeplatform.org/
- About: https://genevatradeplatform.org/about
- Collaborate: https://genevatradeplatform.org/collaborate
- Insights: https://genevatradeplatform.org/insights
- Events: https://genevatradeplatform.org/events
- Geneva Trade Week: https://genevatradeplatform.org/geneva-trade-week
- Resources: https://genevatradeplatform.org/resources
- Contact: https://genevatradeplatform.org/contact

## Core focus areas

- Connect: Brings policymakers, academics and stakeholders together across countries, political divides and policy communities.
- Empower: Provides accessible, targeted and practical training where capacity shortfalls hold back constructive engagement.
- Incubate: Uses its home within the Geneva Graduate Institute to provide a trusted institutional foundation and neutral space for ongoing policy debate and new projects.
- Inform: Produces accessible, concise and outcomes-oriented information where trade policy confusion, negotiating impasses or limited engagement need to be addressed.

## Partnerships and collaboration

Geneva Trade Platform works with a wide range of partners, including academics, think tanks, donors, governments, international organisations, NGOs, academia, the private sector and students. Its partnerships are designed to create impact greater than the sum of their parts.

Examples of collaboration include:
- Partnering with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to build WTO Plurilaterals and the MPIA.
- Working with CropLife International and the WTO Secretariat on an international student hackathon focused on food security.
- Supporting the Permanent Mission of Timor-Leste to the World Trade Organization with support from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

## Events

Geneva Trade Platform hosts and promotes international trade events, including event series, topical sessions, live events, recorded events, in-person sessions and speaker-led programming.

Key events page:
- Events: https://genevatradeplatform.org/events

## Geneva Trade Week

Geneva Trade Week 2026 starts on 15 September 2026. It brings together sessions connected to the WTO Public Forum and related programming. The site describes Geneva Trade Platform as formal partners of the Public Forum and responsible for the Curated Conversations series.

Key Geneva Trade Week page:
- Geneva Trade Week: https://genevatradeplatform.org/geneva-trade-week

## Resources

Geneva Trade Platform creates and maintains online resources that make trade policy easier to follow, clearer to understand and more accessible.

Featured resources include:
- This Week in Trade: a weekly five-minute podcast briefing from Goyder Ltd's George Riddell and the Geneva Trade Platform covering commercially relevant international commerce news, risks, opportunities and compliance challenges.
- WTO Plurilaterals and the MPIA: a resource for learning about and tracking plurilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the Multi-Party Interim Arrangement for Dispute Settlement.
- The Beyond Trade Network: a closed-door network for practitioners, academics, students, policymakers and experts in international trade policy.
- The Trade Law E-Casebook: a free online international trade law casebook created with four leading professors.

Key resources page:
- Resources: https://genevatradeplatform.org/resources

External resources:
- This Week in Trade: https://pod.link/
- WTO Plurilaterals and the MPIA: https://wtoplurilaterals.info/
- The Beyond Trade Network: https://btn.genevatradeplatform.org/
- The Trade Law E-Casebook: https://btn.genevatradeplatform.org/

## Contact

- Email: info@genevatradeplatform.org
- Contact page: https://genevatradeplatform.org/contact
- Location: Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, Maison de la paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2A, Case Postale 1672, CH-1211 Genève 1

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