Denis Audet 

International Economic Advisor  / Conseiller en relations internationales
4, rue Henri Tariel
Issy-les-Moulineaux
92130 France
Phone    33 1 47 71 33 70
Mobile:   33 6 64 49 54 59
Email: denis.audet 


             

Expertise


  • Training on international trade negotiations;
  • Project manager and economic analysis;
  • WTO, Economic Partnership Agreement, trade in goods and services, trade facilitation; trade dispute settlement;
  • Dedicated country risk assessment

Selected projects 

International Trade Centre (ITC), Public-private dialogue on services in the EPA, exlaining the services components of the recently signed EC-Cariforum EPA and assessing the implications for African ACP countries: Douala, Cameroun (upcoming); Addis Abeba, Ethiopia; Maseru, Lesotho; Kigali, Rwanda, Maputo, Mozambique (July-September 2008). 

Institut universitaire de gestion (IUG) du Mali: formation sur les techniques de negociations commerciales au programme de maitrise en relations internationales, Novembre 2008.

World Bank Institute, video training course on WTO market access on non agricultural products (NAMA) negotiations, GDLN network for graduate students in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, from the GDLN Paris facility, 18 June 2008.

EUROPEAID, “An impact assessment study of EU Generalised System of Preference (GSP) and Rules of Origin” [EUROPEAID/119860/C/SV/multi Project no. 2006/128458]. This study is part of the Bangladesh Trade Support Program (BTSP) to assist the Ministry of Commerce in dealing with upcoming changes in the EU’s rules of origin under preferential trade arrangements in the textiles and clothing sectors of Bangladesh, February-June 2007. 

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), keynote speaker on “Sustaining Development through Garment Exports: Cambodia and the Least Developed Economies”, organised jointly by t Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 2006. 

Academy of International Trade Law, Institute of European Studies of Macau, training sessions on WTO trade in services (telecommunications, financial services, e-commerce and outsourcing), Macau, June 2005.

The China National Textiles and Apparel Council, Kkeynote speaker on “Global Textile Economic Forum 2005”, Beijing, China, March 2005.

 

List of publications 


Sauvé, Pierre and D. Audet, (2008), The Services Trade Component of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Implications for the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), ITC Geneva, September 2008.

ITC (2008), Fostering Trade through Public-Private Dialogue, Moving Goods, Services and People across Borders”, Part One on Trade Facilitation Services and Part Two on Temporary Labour Mobility, Geneva, Switzerland, http://www.intracen.org/mts/

ITC (2007), Fostering Trade through Public-Private Dialogue, WTO Negotiation on Trade in Services, Commercial and Economic Implications for Telecom and Financial Services Reforms, Geneva, Switzerland, http://www.intracen.org/mts/

Audet, Denis (2007), Smooth as Silk? A First Look at the Post MFA Textiles and Clothing Landscape, Journal of International Economy Law 10(2) 267-284, doi:10.1093/jiel/jgm003, May 2007, Oxford UK.

Audet, Denis (2005), Impact of the MFA Expiry: An Overview, in South Asia After the Quota System: Impact of the MFA Phase-Out edited by Saman Kelegama, Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka.

Audet, Denis (2005), The MFA Legacy Problem, Tackling Competitive Weakness is the Way Forward, Article published in the Financial Express of India on 18 Mai 2005.

OECD (2004), A New World Map in Textiles and Clothing: Adjusting to Change, Paris.
         http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34035455_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Policy Brief (2004), A New World Map in Textiles and Clothing: Adjusting to Change, 8 pages, Paris. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/14/33824605.pdf.

Tulder, R. van and D. Audet (2004), The Faster Lane of Regionalism, in J. Carillo, Y. Lung and R. van Tulder             (eds.), Cars, Carriers of Regionalism?, GERPISA, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Biography

 

Since 2005              Audet conseils, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

1990 – 2005            Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Trade Directorate, Paris, France.

1988 – 1990            Canadian Department of Natural Resources, Ottawa, Canada.

1980 – 1988            Canadian Department of Finance, Ottawa, Canada.

1980                       Master Degree in Economics, Laval University, Québec, Canada

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