Manfred Elsig is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the World Trade Institute (WTI), Bern and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He studied at the Universities of Bern and Bordeaux and earned a degree in political science in 1997. He worked from 1997-1999 at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. He later joined the Political Science Institute of the University of Zurich and received his PhD (Dr.phil) in 2002. Before joining the WTI, he worked for UBS financial services group and as a personal advisor to the Minister of Economy of Canton Zurich.
In the past, he taught courses on IPE, trade diplomacy, globalization and European integration at the University of Zurich and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses primarily on the politics of global trade, European trade policy and US-EU relations.

 

New Projects

Elsig, Manfred; Thomas Cottier, eds. Forthcoming. Governing the World Trade Organization: Past, Present and Beyond Doha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Publications on the process of international economic negotiation:

Elsig, Manfred. Forthcoming 2010. "Principal-Agent Theory and the World Trade Organization: Complex Agency and 'Missing Delegation.'" European Journal of International Relations.

Elsig, Manfred. Forthcoming 2010. "European Trade Policy after Enlargement: Larger Crowds, Shifting Priorities and Informal Decision-Making." Journal of European Public Policy.

Elsig, Manfred. 2009. "The EU in the Doha Negotiations: A Conflicted Sponsor?" in A. Narlikar and B. Vickers, eds., Leadership and Change in the Doha Negotiations. Brill/Martinus Nijhoff.

Elsig, Manfred 2006. Swiss Air Traffic Policy: Noise Between Bern and Berlin. Swiss Political Science Review, 12(3).

Elsig, Manfred 2002. The EU’s Common Commercial Policy. Institutions, Interests and Ideas. Aldershot: Ashgate.

 

Contact Information
World Trade Institute
Hallerstrasse 6
3012 Bern – Switzerland
Email: manfred.elsig@wti.org