This website focuses on the professional interests of Robert D. Anderson, part-time academic, consultant, trainer, former senior staff member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat (1997-2019) and, earlier in his career, former staff member of the Canadian Competition Bureau (1982-1997) and of the Saskatchewan (Province of Canada) Budget Bureau (1981-82).

 

These interests include:

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• The history, rationale for and future of multilateralism;

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• International government procurement policy (centering on the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (see https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/gproc_e/gproc_e.htm) and related regional and bilateral trade agreements);

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• Procurement reforms in emerging and developing economies;

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• International dimensions and applications of competition policy (see, for relevant WTO work, https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/comp_e/comp_e.htm);

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• The relationship of competition policy to government procurement; and

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• The relationship of competition policy and intellectual property rights.​

 

NB: this website does NOT attempt to track the latest developments concerning WTO case law or negotiations. For that, I recommend the International Economic Law and Policy Blog (https://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/) and the website of the WTO itself (www.wto.org).

 

For current developments regarding international government procurement policy, I recommend the websites of Jean Heilman Grier (https://trade.djaghe.com/) and Prof. Chris Yukins of the George Washington University (https://publicprocurementinternational.com/).

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