Myriam Vander Stichele
Myriam Vander Stichele
Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
Associate Fellow Myriam Vander Stichele has been monitoring international trade negotiations and agreements since 1990, both at a regional and global level. She is an advisor to many NGOs whose indepth research on investment agreements and policies, and private investor strategies has sparked many international campaigns.
With an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, Myriam's research is particularly focussed on the financial, food and supermarkets sectors, and the corporate strategies and services liberalisation related to these.
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Areas of expertise:
WTO; EU Trade & Development Policies; Financial Services Liberalisation; EU/Africa Trade & Development PracticesContact
Email: stichele [at] xs4all.nl
Phone: +31 (0)20 639 12 91
English; Dutch
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Recent content by Myriam Vander Stichele
Five years of crisis: little learning, continuing risks
September 2013
Why has there been so little progress or learning from the world's biggest financial crisis? What solutions could really put people back in charge of finance?
Time for the EU to shut down the casino
July 2011
Until the European Commission shows it has learnt the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis and demonstrates the political will to re-regulate the financial sector, it will be unable to resolve the crises in Greece, Ireland and Portugal
Will the financial markets really be tamed?
May 2011
Three years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the banks are back making mega-profits while the burden has clearly shifted to citizens and workers. However civil society action at European level could still make a difference in reining in the financial sector.
The impact of free trade on the financial crisis … and vice versa
November 2010
Behind the currency wars and the worsening global economic crisis lies a largely unquestioned free trade model that both contributed to the crisis and, without radical reform, is a major obstacle to overcoming it.
Financing Food
April 2010
Financing Food focuses on how derivative markets work and on speculation in food and agricultural products. This study demonstrates how the futures market for agricultural products, in particular, has changed and is being disrupted by new speculators, growing index funds and commodities funds.
WTO: Cause not Solution to the Crisis!!
November 2009
The financial crisis should be recognized as a very clear example of how the free trade and free market theory has failed, why the WTO should turn around away from this neo-liberal model and allow for all services and trade to be at the service of people and the planet, not of corporate profits.
What is the role of WTO services rules in the context of the current financial crisis?
November 2009
The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (the "GATS") has very much underpinned expansion without regulation and supervision, so the financial corporations had the guarantee that their expansion would be underpinned. But financial services are not the same as other services – they need special supervisory structures.
Contradictions at the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis
June 2009
The G20's continued push for trade liberalisation contradicts the same countries' assertion that markets, especially the financial sector, need further regulation.
Debating Europe: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (video)
February 2009
Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. Susan George and Myriam Vander Stichele debate MEP Ignasi Guardans and Chief Economist DG Trade, Gaspar Frontini, in TNI's Debating Europe series.
How to oppose liberalisation of financial services
February 2009
Three fact sheets on how despite talk of regulations of financial services in the North, the WTO and regional Free Trade agreements continue to impose financial liberalisation on the south.
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