Presentations: From GATS to TISA - Global Trade in Services Forum, Geneva, 17 October, 2014

On 17 October 2014, Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) network organised, "Global Trade in Services Forum - From GATS to TISA", in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the Public Services International (PSI). With critical perspective on TISA, trade unionists from public and private sectors, government representatives, global experts and civil society representatives took part in the event.

Participants from around the world shared information on TISA negotiations and its impacts on access to affordable public services, democracy and workers' rights.  

Presentations are available for download in PDF format in English only.

Videos of the speeches given by the keynote speakers are available in English and Spanish.

Also see the interviews with keynote speakers.

• Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Professor of law, former Member of Parliament and Minister of Justice, Germany The TISA negotiations and the democratic rule of law (video interview)

• Deborah James, Director of International Programs, Centre for Economic and Policy Research The history and geopolitics of trade in services

• Jane Kelsey, Professor of law, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Current services liberalisation and content of the TISA (video interview)

• Sanya Reid Smith, Legal Advisor, Third World Network
  Privatisation, procurement and state-owned enterprises

• Ellen Gould, Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada
  Domestic regulation (video interview)

• Stefan Giger, General Secretary, SSP-VPÖD, Switzerland
  The impact on public services

• Tony Salvador, lawyer, IDEALS, Philippines
  Mode 4 and the labor rights of migrant workers also see his interview

• Andreas Botsch, Special Adviser to the President, DGB, Germany
  From GATS to TISA - Some Facts on the Economic Context

• Melinda St. Louis, International Campaigns Director, Public Citizen, USA
  Dangers of Further Liberalization of Financial Services in TISA

• Celeste Drake, Trade & Globalization Policy Specialist, AFL-CIO, USA
  Transportation services & TISA also see her interview

• Natalie Van Gijsel, Campaign and Policy Officer at Third World Health Aid, Belgium
  From GATS to TISA: Impact on the health sector

• Antoni Verger, Professor of Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
  GATS, TISA and "Education Services"