
Pierre Sauvé (CA) is a Visiting Fellow in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, UK, where he also serves as a Research Associate of the School's International Trade Policy Unit. He is also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland, where he directs a Swiss National Science Foundation research project on trade regulation in services.
He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Paris, France, in 2003-04 and has worked as a Paris-based consultant for the World Bank since January 2003. He previously served in the OECD Trade Directorate and the GATT Secretariat and was a services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations. In 1998-2000, he taught at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, MA, a period during which he was also appointed Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C.. He has taught since 1999 in the Academy of International Law's annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. He has advised the governments of a number of OECD and developing countries and has served as a consultant to leading international institutions active in the trade policy field.
Professor Sauvé was educated at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Carleton University in Canada, and at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs on policy issues relating to international trade, investment and the regulation of industry.
He has published widely on international trade, investment and the regulation of industry, including Domestic Regulation and Services Trade Liberalisation (with Aaditya Mattoo 2003), Trade Rules Behind Borders: Essays on Services, Investment and the New Trade Agenda (2003), and GATS: The Case for Open Services Markets (2002).