Mr Ignacio Garcia Bercero

Mr
Ignacio
Garcia
Bercero
is a director at the Directorate General for
Trade of the European Commission (DG
TRADE). He currently oversees activities
related to the US, Canada and the EU
Neighbouring Countries. Mr Garcia Bercero
coordinated the work of the EU-US High
Level Working Group on Growth and Jobs,
which recommended the launch of the
Transatlantic
Trade
and
Investment
Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. He now
acts as the EU Chief Negotiator for this
agreement.
Mr Garcia Bercero joined the European Commission in 1987 and has thorough
experience in a large number of trade-related policy areas.
During the Uruguay Round of multilateral negotiations, he followed, inter alia,
negotiations on trade safeguards, GATT articles, functioning of the GATT, as
well as talks on trade and environment. In the period leading up to the launch
of the WTO Doha Round, he served as coordinator of the EU WTO policy and led
the negotiations on trade and competition. He was also posted in the EU
Delegation to the United Nations in New York and worked in areas of WTO
Dispute Settlement and Trade Barriers Regulation.
More recently, between 2005 and 2011, Mr Garcia Bercero’s field
of responsibility included trade-related aspects of sustainable development, as
well as bilateral trade relations with South and South-East Asia, Korea,
EuroMed and the Middle East countries. As the Chief Negotiator, he led the
negotiating process with South Korea and India.
Mr Garcia Bercero authored several papers and publications on the subjects
of Trade Laws, GATT and WTO System, Safeguard Measures, Trade and
Competition, WTO Dispute Settlement Reform and bilateral dispute settlement
rules in European Free Trade Agreements.
Mr Garcia Bercero holds a Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the
Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Masters of Laws Degree (with
Distinction) from University College, London.