DG Azevêdo welcomes the 2019 cohort of WTO young professionals
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo welcomed the third cohort of WTO young professionals on 6 February. The 13 participants of the Young Professionals Programme were selected from more than 1,100 candidates after a competitive, merit-based selection process.
The group includes this year professionals from: Afghanistan; Cambodia; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong, China; Liberia; Macao, China; Maldives; Namibia; Oman; Papua New Guinea; Sri Lanka; and Tajikistan. They started working in the WTO in early 2019 and will spend one year in the WTO Secretariat to learn about the organization’s work and to contribute to its activities.
Launched in 2016, the WTO Young Professionals Programme is part of the Secretariat’s efforts to increase diversity and broaden the representation of the membership.
“This programme is now on its third year, and it has been very successful,” DG Azevêdo told the young professionals. “We created this initiative to help enhance the knowledge and skills on WTO issues among young professionals, with a special focus on those members that are not currently represented at the professional level in the Secretariat.”
DG Azevêdo noted that the third cohort joins the WTO at a very important time for the organization and the multilateral trading system. “We have had challenges in the WTO in the past and we always came through, but I have to say that today not only the WTO, but the whole multilateral system, is under the greatest challenge it has ever faced. Since 1947, when the system was created, and subsequently 1995 with the WTO, we have never been under so much pressure, and we are delivering and transforming, so you are witnessing a historic moment.”
“The opportunity to work in the international arena allows us to place our knowledge within a larger framework, and see it working in that perspective,” Kasek Galgal said on behalf of the group. “Most importantly, it allows us to gain the exposure and experience, enhancing what we are able to contribute in our future careers – be it with the WTO, another international organization or in our home economies.”
Source: wto.org
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