{"id":149,"date":"2024-11-22T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/?post_type=partners&#038;p=149"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:00:08","slug":"paolo-r-vergano","status":"publish","type":"partners","link":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/partners\/paolo-r-vergano\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo R. Vergano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo R. Vergano is a partner at the firm, where he deals mainly with International Trade Law (<em>i.e.<\/em>, general EU and WTO law, dispute settlement and trade negotiation) and Food Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo graduated at the School of Law of the University of Torino, Italy (1995) and holds a Master\u2019s degree in International Business and Trade Law from the University of Fordham\u2019s School of Law in New York, USA (1997). Prior to that, he obtained an Erasmus Diploma at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, the Netherlands (1994) and a Dipl\u00f4me Sup\u00e9rieur de Droit Compar\u00e9 at the Facult\u00e9 Internationale de Droit Compar\u00e9 in Strasbourg, France (1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is admitted in Belgium and is a member of the Brussels Bar (\u201c<em>A<\/em>\u201d list).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo started his trade career in 1995 and has worked in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium.&nbsp; He has been involved in a multitude of projects on WTO, EU and ASEAN law and procedures, doing extensive work on international trade issues such as market access questions, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade, customs regulations, rules of origin determinations, preferential tariff arrangements and duty suspension procedures.&nbsp; In particular, he has so far been actively involved in nine WTO dispute settlement procedures (at consultations, Panel and Appellate Body level), has advised many countries and private interests in WTO accessions and trade negotiations, and has participated in a variety of EU, DFID, USAID, World Bank, ITC and WTO trade-related technical assistance projects. He advises Governments and private operators on agricultural and services negotiations in the multilateral, regional and bilateral contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo is a regular speaker at conferences around the world on international trade issues and has authored or co-authored a number of articles and legal essays. He sits in the Editorial Board of the&nbsp;<em>Global Trade and Customs Journal<\/em>&nbsp;and is the Editor of FratiniVergano\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Trade Perspectives<\/em><sup>\u00a9<\/sup>. He is the 2014-2016 Chair of the International Trade Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA). Paolo is a frequent lecturer in a number of Universities on issues of WTO law and dispute settlement. Since 2002, he is part of the faculty at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland where he teaches a course on \u201c<em>Tariffs, Quantitative Restrictions and Voluntary Export Restraints<\/em>\u201d. Since 2014, he teaches courses on \u201c<em>Trade Advocacy and Litigation Strategies<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>Non-Tariff Measures<\/em>\u201d at Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","partners","type-partners","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partners\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partners"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/partners"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partners\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partners\/149\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fratinivergano.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}