Lunchtime Briefing with Crawford Falconer, Interim Permanent Secretary, Department for International Trade
Author WIG Date 18 Oct 2022
Understand where there is a greater role for collaboration between the private sector and the Department for International Trade
Since leaving the European Union, the UK has had the ability to create and build its own trade policy with the wider world. There have been notable successes in the last two years, including new agreements signed with the likes of Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Vietnam amongst many others. Yet there are a range of opportunities for new trading relationships which still need to be confirmed.
As Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser, Crawford Falconer oversees the trade policy and negotiation agenda for the Department for International Trade and supports the Permanent Secretary in running the department.
Catch up on this WIG briefing to:
- Understand the trade agreements that have been signed off, and where there are hopes for future development
- Learn about where there is a greater role for collaboration between the private sector and the Department for International Trade
- Gain insights on how trade dynamics will likely develop in the coming year and what this might mean for broader government departments, the private sector, and not-for-profits alike
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Speaker at the Event
Crawford Falconer is Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and Second Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade. He also heads the trade negotiation profession within the Civil Service.
Crawford has spent over 25 years working on trade policy and trade negotiations both inside and outside government. He has worked in a number of high-profile positions including as the New Zealand Chief Negotiator and Adviser. He most recently served as Professor of Global Value Chains and Trade at Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Crawford’s previous roles include:
- Deputy Secretary (Vice Minister) in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- New Zealand Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Geneva
- Chair of the WTO DOHA round negotiations on agriculture and cotton
- Trade strategy coordinator and WTO senior official for the New Zealand Foreign and Trade Ministry
- Leading trade projects at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on services and trade value added
- Director of Multilateral trade in the New Zealand Trade Ministry
- Fellow at the New Zealand Institute of Policy Studies
Crawford studied at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the London School of Economics. In a personal capacity, he is a past Chair of the OECD Trade Committee, the WTO Subsidies Committee and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council National Committee. He has been a judge on over 15 international trade disputes brought before the WTO, including recently on long-running Boeing-Airbus dispute. Crawford has written several publications, including (with Sir Frank Holmes) “Open Regionalism, NAFTA, CER and a Pacific Basin Initiative”.