Ludivine Tamiotti is Head, Environment Section, Trade and Environment Division in the WTO in Geneva.
She is in charge of the regular and negotiating committees on trade and environment, provides legal advice, conducts research and publishes widely on trade and environment (e.g. lead author of the WTO/UNEP Report on Trade and Climate Change).
Celine Tan is Professor of International Economic Law. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) based at Warwick Law School. Celine is a founding member of The IEL Collective, a community for scholars and practitioners interested in critical reflection of the interactions between law and the global economy.
Prior to Warwick, she was at the University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick where she held a Postgraduate Research Fellowship.
Merete Tandstad is the Senior (Programme) Coordinator for the EAF-Nansen Programme at the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) in Rome, Italy. The EAF-Nansen Programme is a longstanding partnership between FAO and Norway, executed in close collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR).
In her role, Ms Tandstad provides overall leadership and coordinates Programme activities in collaboration with the partners, including regional organizations and 32 countries across Africa and the Bay of Bengal, to promote an ecosystem approach to fisheries and knowledge-based decision making for improved food and nutrition security.
Ms Tandstad holds over 20 years of experience with FAO, in roles related to ocean governance, fisheries management, applied science, and capacity development. She also has many years of experience working on fisheries issues in Africa, in particular West Africa, including with the the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF).
Andrea Tang is Legal Services Director at, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA). She is responsible for legal matters across the work of the Federation, and oversees the Federation’s work across the various modes of transport (air, maritime, rail, road), as trade facilitation and customs.
Prior to FIATA, she held roles in the Swiss industry association for the commodity trading and shipping sector for the Swiss industry association, and in regulatory affairs for the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
Andrea is a qualified lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, following which she completed her Master studies in International Law. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Insurance (CII) from the Chartered Insurance Institute. She is a member of the Womens’ International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) and is the representative for Switzerland to the WISTA International Trade Committee.
Prudence Tangham Galega is a Cameroonian Judge and has emerged as one of Africa’s renown female legal experts with an extensive experience in multilateral environmental agenda setting and the national translation of these MEAs into development, sectoral and investment policy and decision-making processes of her country and the Africa region.
For close to a decade and half, Prudence has led the African region in several negotiation processes within the Convention on Biological Diversity especially during her service as Cameroons Permanent Secretary for the Environment and National Focal Point for the CBD, the Nagoya Protocol on ABS, Africa’s Ministers Conference for the Environment (AMCEN), and several related processes.
Of key importance, her experience in coordinating and providing technical guidance to the African Group in the negotiation of the Access and Benefit Sharing Protocol and recently the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, underpins the critical role she currently plays in the African region, as principal expert in drafting several legal tools in support of the internalization and coordinated implementation of these major trade and biodiversity related agreements. These major tools include the recently validated African Union Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan by the African Union Heads of State Summit and the validated Sub Regional Guidance for the implementation of the GBF in the COMIFAC landscape in Central Africa.
Prudence has also engaged in several research works, carrying out analysis on policy and governance responses at various levels to the biodiversity and climate crisis, legislative representation on the environment, and the rights of indigenous and local community dwellers especially in the Congo Basin forest Region.
Trisha S.M Tannis, Managing Director of the Unicomer (Barbados) Group is a professional with over 25 years’ experience in financial management and corporate governance. As the first woman appointed to that office in the Unicomer Caribbean and Latin America Group, Trisha is professionally qualified as Fellow in the Chartered Professional Accountants, the Chartered Governance Institute in Canada, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados.
Trisha was the first woman to chair the Barbados Private Sector Association. Currently, Trisha is Co-chair of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) Monitoring Committee and chair of the Unicomer Caribbean Risk Committee. Trisha was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the UWI Cave Hill Campus in October 2023, and holds a Bachelor Degree in Accounting with Honours at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Trisha is a devout Christian, happily married to Patrick, and proud mom to Michael and Abi.
