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Patrick Low is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, the University of Hong Kong. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University (2016-18). From 2013-16 he was Vice-President of Research and Senior Fellow at the Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong (2013 – 16). Previously, he was Chief Economist at the World Trade Organization (1997 to 2013). Concurrently (2005-2013) he was an Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He worked at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1980-87), taught at El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City (1987-90), and served at the World Bank (1990-94), prior to joining the WTO in 1995. He has consulted widely for governments and international institutions. Patrick Low holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sussex.
(with Julia Tijaja) “Increasing value from global value chain participation: What role for industrial policy?” in Baldwin R., M. Kawai, and G. Wignaraja, The Future of the World Trading System: Asian Perspectives, Vox eBook, 2013
The Role of Services in Global Value Chains, Working Paper, Fung Global Institute, 2013
Preferentialism in Trade Relations: Challenges for the World Trade Organization, Working Paper No. 478, Asian Development Bank Institute, 2014
(with Gloria Pasadilla, Eds.): Services in Global Value Chains: Manufacturing-Related Services, World Scientific, 2016
(with Arian Hassani and Deborah K. Elms, Eds.): The Intangible Economy: How Services Shape Global Production and Consumption, Cambridge University Press, 2017
“Balancing Rights and Obligations in the WTO: A Shared Responsibility”, Study for the Government of Sweden. https://www.swedenabroad.se/…/fn…/balancing-rights-and-obligations-in-the-wto.pdf, 2019.
Digital services taxes, trade and development Working Paper No. 2020-0. Institute of International Trade, University of Adelaide. 2020
“Special and differential treatment and developing countries: Can the two be separated? Chapter 4 in Bernard Hoekman, Xinquan Tu, and Wang Dong. Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe. CEPR Press. London. 2021.
“What Can Be Done to Blunt Potential Conflict between Climate Change and Trade Policies?” in Bernard Hoekman and Ernesto Zedillo (eds.) Trade in the Twenty-First Century: Back to the Past? Brookings Institution Press. 2021
(with Americo B. Zampetti and Petros C. Mavroidis): “Consensus Decision-Making and Legislative Inertia at the WTO: Can International Law Help?” Journal of World Trade 56, no/ 1 (2022) 1-26
“The WTO in Crisis: Closing the Gap between Conversation and Action or Shutting Down the Conversation?” World Trade Review, 21 (2022), 274-90