Myriam vander Stichele

Senior Researcher, Research Center for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
stichele@xs4all.nl

TNI fellow, Myriam is Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam-based SOMO (Centre for Research on Multilateral Corporations). An historian by training, with an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Myriam has been monitoring international trade for more than a decade - under the Lome Convention, during the Uruguay GATT round and at the WTO. Her current area of research is liberalisation of the financial services industry and the General Agreement on Trade in Services of the WTO. She has worked as a trade advisor for many NGOs, including the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) and Women in Development Europe (WIDE).

Recent work

Financial Services in GATS: EC Requests and Offer Endanger Financial Stability [March 2003]

Areas of interest

WTO; EU Trade & Development Policies; Financial Services Liberalisation; EU/Africa Trade & Development Practices

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Contributions to books

"Elements for a New Trade System: Fairness, Sustainability and Development"
in Norbert Malanowski (ed), Social and Environmental Standards in International Agreements: Links, Implementations and Prospects, Schriftenreihe Hans Böckler Stiftung, Münster, 1997

"Hoe de WTO democratische principes met voeten treedt" en "Vrijhandel en gender (1) in Azië"
in Rudy de Meyer (ed), WTO: Handel zonder Grenzen, Noord-Zuid Cahier, Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1998

"Europa en de Derde Wereld"
in Met Uitzicht op Europa, Garant, Leuven, 1995

"Accountability and the World Trade Organisation"
in John Cavanagh, Daphne Wysham and Marcos Arruda (ed), Beyond Bretton Woods. Alternatives to the Global Economic Order, TNI/Pluto Press, 1995

"World Trade. Free for Whom, Fair for Whom?"
in Challenges to the United Nations. Building a Safer World, CIIR, London, 1994

"De Lomé au Golfe e à la Mediterrannée", "Les defis d'une nouvelle approche par la CEE" and "Les occasions perdues des negociations de Lomé IV"
in Europe face au Dud. Les relations avec le monde arabe et africain, Third World Forum, l'Harmattan, Paris, 1991

Booklets

Is de financiële crisis voorbij?
SOMO, Amsterdam, October 1999

Towards a World Transnationals' Organisation?
The World Trade Organisation Series No. 3. Amsterdam, 30 April 1998

Globalisation, Marginalisation, and the WTO
The World Trade Organisation Series No. 2. TNI, Amsterdam, 29 September 1997

The World Trade Organisation. The Ministerial Conference in Singapore and the Developing Countries. An Introduction
The World Trade Organisation Series No. 1. TNI, Amsterdam, 8 November 1996

The Third World after the Cold War. Gains and Losses
TNIdeas, No. 4, June 1993

Reports

Financial Services in GATS. EC Requests and Offer Endanger Financial Stability, SOMO, March 2003

The Risk of Liberalizing the Energy Sector
Case Study ENDESA, Somo, March 2002

Privatisering energiesector houdt ongekende risico's in.
Terugtrekking Endesa: Ramp vermeden? Somo, 1 March 2002

Liberalisation in Banking Services Does not Have the Stated Effects
Case study of ABN Amro in Brazil, Somo, December 2001

Niet iedereen wint bij de offensieve inzet van Nederland in de WTO. Resultaten van een case study over ABN Amro in Brazilië
SOMO, 14 December 2001

Mapping the EU Trade Policy
Part 1 of Gender Mapping. The European Union Trade Policy, WIDE, September 1997

A Gender Perspective on European Union Trade Policies
With Case Studies of the Philippines and Vietnam, WIDE Briefing Paper for the First WTO Ministerial Meeting, Singapore, 9-13 December 1996

Making it our Business. European NGO Campaigns on Transnational Corporations
(Co-author with Peter Pennartz) CIIR, Reports & Briefings, London, September 1996

Alternative Report on Trade
ICDA, Brussels, 1995

The Third World after the Cold War: Gains and Losses
Briefing Paper. TNI Ideas, TNI, June 1993

The Democratic Deficit in the Uruguay Round Negotiations
European Ecumenical Organisation for Development (EECOD), Brussels, 1992

Papers

The TEP and the Millennium Round in the WTO
Paper presented for the Conference at the European Parliament 'From the MAI to the Millennium Round', 28 April 1999

A Gender Analysis of Trade and WTO Rules: A Case Study of Ghana, Notes of a talk at the ICDA Conference on Trade, Environment and Gender, Brussels, 6 November 1998