World Trade Forum 2025: Register here
Register here for the online sessions of the 2025 edition of the World Trade Forum - Coping with chaos: sustaining the rules-based trade order.
World Trade Forum
The World Trade Forum is an annual conference, co-organised with the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern, which brings together leading trade practitioners and scholars, government officials, and representatives of international and non-governmental organisations. The two organisers take turns in organising the event, in Florence and Bern respectively. Every year, a book related to the World Trade Forum is published with Cambridge University Press.
Publications
- World Trade Forum 2015, Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose? Manfred Elsig, Bernard Hoekman and Joost Pauwelyn (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- World Trade Forum 2016, Behind-the-Border Policies: Assessing and Addressing Non-Tariff Measures, Joseph Francois and Bernard Hoekman (eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- World Trade Forum 2017, The Shifting Landscape of Trade Governance, Manfred Elsig, Michael Hahn and Gabriele Spilker (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- World Trade Forum 2018, International trade, investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals: World Trade Forum. Cosimo Beverelli, Jürgen Kurtz and Damian Raess (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- World Trade Forum 2019, International Economic Dispute Settlement: Demise or Transformation? Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco and Peter van den Bossche, 2021.
- World Trade Forum 2020, Coherence of the European Union Trade Policy with the EU’s Non-Trade Objectives, Miriam Manchin, Laura Puccio and Aydin Yildirim (eds.), 2024.
- World Trade Forum 2021,
- World Trade Forum 2022, China and the WTO: 20 Years On. Henry Gao, Damian Raess and Ka Zheng (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2023.
World Trade Forum 2023: Non-economic objectives and international trade
Watch the recordings of key sessions form the 2023 edition of the conference and a series of engaging short interviews with participants.
World Trade Forum 2021: Digital, green and open? Global Trade policy at crossroads
Watch the recordings of key sessions form the 2021 edition of the conference.
World Trade Forum 2020: Trade and non-trade policy objectives: soft vs. hard power
Watch the recordings of key sessions form the 2020 edition of the conference.
World Trade Forum 2018 & 2016: Trade development and sustainability
Watch the recordings of key sessions form the 2018 and 2016 editions of the conferenc