MYRIAM VANDER STICHELE

TNI

August 2006

			Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) stichele [at] xs4all.nl
	Myriam Vander Stichele is Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam-based SOMO (Centre for Research on Multilateral Corporations) and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. A historian by training, with an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Myriam has been monitoring international trade negotiations and agreements since 1990, both at a global level (WTO/GATT) and at a regional one, focussing in particular on free trade agreements related to the Lome and Cotonou agreements (EPAs). She has been trade coordinator and adviser for many NGOs, speaking extensively about trade and sustainable development. More recently, her research has focussed on the financial, food and supermarkets sectors, and the corporate strategies and services liberalisation related to these. In cooperation with southern organisations, she also researches investment agreements and policies, and private investor strategies. Curriculum Vitae
	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
	Articles		Comments to the EU-LDC Network Conference on the WTO Agreement and Negotiations in Trade in Services (GATS) and its Contribution to Poverty Alleviation [31 May 2001]