About IFSL Trade Policy

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The IFSL Trade Policy department works to secure greater liberalisation of international trade in financial services. The trade policy staff are the only dedicated team who represent the views of the whole sector in international trade negotiations.

Through its Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Committee, the department brings together senior representatives from across the industry to work for the removal of barriers to trade in financial services. The LOTIS Committee is highly influential, and is widely recognised as the principal voice of the financial services sector on international trade matters.

IFSL provides input into European strategy on multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations, as well as engaging directly with overseas Governments to make the case for further market liberalisation.

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JOHN COOKE
Chairman, Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Committee

John Cooke (Chairman of the LOTIS Committee and European Co-Chairman of the Financial Leaders Working Group) is a former senior UK trade official. He is a contributor to conferences and seminars on international trade policy and trade in services, and has published articles on international services liberalisation and regulatory issues.

His earlier career (1966-97) was in the UK Department of Trade and Industry, where he specialised in international trade policy and also in prudential and economic regulation. He spent six years in the UK Permanent Representation to the EU. His most recent Government posts were Head of International Trade Policy Division; Chairman of the OECD Trade Committee; and Leader of the UK Delegation, and a Conference Vice-President, at the Ninth UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). From 1997 to 2003 he was Head of International Relations at the Association of British Insurers.

EMMA CARSWELL-ENGLE
Trade Policy Officer

Emma joined IFSL in October 2008 following the completion of a Masters Degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. During her studies she focused on international trade and the politics of money as well as wrote a dissertation on multilateral investment agreements. She previously attended the University of British Columbia (Canada) where she received a Bachelor of Commerce (Hon) in Business and Economics

0207 213 9101
e.carswellengle@ifsl.org.uk