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William A. Dymond

William A. Dymond is the Senior Executive Fellow of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law. Prior to joining the Centre in 2000, Mr. Dymond was the Director-General of the Policy Planning Secretariat in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. His other appointments included Chief Air Negotiator for Canada, Chief Negotiator for Canada for the OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), and Senior Advisor to the Trade Negotiations Office for the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. Mr Dymond also served as Ambassador to Brazil, Minister-Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Minister-Counsellor in the Canadian Mission to the European Union in Brussels and First Secretary in the Canadian Mission to the Union Nations, Geneva.

Mr. Dymond's publications include: "Core Labour Standards and the World Trade Organization: Labour's Love Lost", in Canadian Foreign Policy, Volume 8, No.3 (Spring 2001), 99-114 "The MAI: A Sad and Melancholy Tale" in A Big League Player? Canada Among Nations, Oxford University Press, 1999; co-author of: Decision at Midnight, University of British Columbia Press, 1994; "Sisyphus Ascendant? Brazil and the 21st Century" in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1997; "Globalization and the Negotiation of International Investment Rules in a post-MAI World", Canadian Foreign Policy, Winter 2000; "Post-Modern Trade Policy: Reflections on the Challenges to Multilateral Trade Negotiations after Seattle", Journal of World Trade, June 2000; "Abundant Paradox: The Trade and Culture Debate," November 2001, available on CTPL website (www.carleton.ca/ctpl), "NAFTA Chapter 11: Precedents, Principles, and Prospects," March 2002, also available on website; Special and Differential Treatment in the Doha Development Round, Journal of World Trade 37(2)395-414, 2003. "The Potemkin Village of Canadian Foreign Policy" (Policy Options December 2003-January 2004), "Canadian Trade Policy at the Crossroads" (Policy Options, February 2004) and "The Doha Investment Negotiations: Whither or Wither" (Journal of World Trade Spring 2004).