About us

WTI Advisors is a specialized provider of high-end professional services in international trade policy, law and economics.

We combine a core team of experienced trade practitioners our global network of trade experts, academics, and consultants, including from the ranks of the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern.

We provide timely, pragmatic and cost-effective advice, representation and training in the context of trade negotiations, the formulation and implementation of national trade policy and the settlement of disputes. Our clients include governments, in particular from developing countries, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, trade associations, and private businesses. We have specific regional experience in Europe, Oceania, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the wider ACP, South- East Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.

Our expertise spans virtually all areas of international law, policy and economics, within and beyond the World Trade Organization. We are proficient in matters ranging from the Doha Development Agenda to Joint Statement Initiatives, from dispute settlement to waivers, from GATT to GATS,  from trade remedies to competition policy, from agriculture to NAMA, from market access to domestic regulation, from trade and environment to trade and investment, and from climate change to national security. Specializations within our core team include services regulation and related policy-making, the design of goods offers and their negotiation, rules of origin, trade measures to mitigate climate change, TBT and SPS, investment and trade facilitation, subsidies and government procurement. We have particular expertise in WTO accessions, from observership via bilaterals, to pre- and post- accession implementation.