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Three lawyers join the ACWL under the Secondment Programme for Trade Lawyers (2008-2009)
Lawyers from Chinese Taipei, Colombia and Pakistan have been selected to join the ACWL in September 2008 under the Secondment Programme for Trade Lawyers. The Programme runs from September to June each year, and gives government lawyers from ACWL developing country Members and from the LDCs the opportunity to join the ACWL and work as staff members and receive training before returning to their posts.
Ms Liang-Rong Lin, from Chinese Taipei, has LL.B. and LL.M degrees from the National University and Soochow University, both in Chinese Taipei. She was also a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. She is currently a legal advisor in the Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, where she provides legal advice on trade policy, negotiations and dispute settlement. She has drafted several third party submissions for WTO disputes in which Chinese Taipei was involved. She previously represented the government as a public prosecutor in criminal cases including high-profile cases on corruption. Ms Lin is also a reporter for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts.
Ms Gheidy Gallo, from Colombia, has a BA degree in Law from the National University of Colombia. She currently works as a Legal Adviser in International Economic Law at the Entrepreneurial Development Office of the National Planning Department and is a member of the Colombian Negotiating Team for International Trade Agreements in the Institutional Provisions and Dispute Settlement Chapters. She previously worked for the Colombian Senate Committee on International Relations and Foreign Trade and has lectured at the Faculty of Law of the National University on the law of economic integration in Colombia.
Ms Shandana Gulzar Khan, from Pakistan, has law degrees from the University of Peshawar and the University of Cambridge. As the Legal Affairs Officer at the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the WTO in Geneva for the last two years, she has been responsible for the legal work of the mission, including negotiations on the Dispute Settlement Understanding and the TRIPS Agreement. She previously worked at Azam Chaudhry Law Associates and the Asian Institute of Trade and Development in Islamabad. She has also published various articles on WTO matters.