Yanis Bourgeois

is an Economic Affairs Officer at the World Trade Organization, in the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee (CTNC) Division. He specialises in e-commerce related issues at the WTO, both under the Work Programme and the ongoing negotiations in the Joint Statement Initiative. Mr Bourgeois regularly provides technical assistance to developing and least developed countries on a variety of WTO issues, including on e-commerce, Ministerial Conferences and General Council matters, negotiations, plurilateral initiatives, and WTO reform. He is a French national who holds two Masters’ degrees, a Master 2 in English and North American Business Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Glasgow.