Meet Dr. Sofía Boza: Ambassador of Chile to the WTO, WIPO, the UNCTD & the ITC

At that time, she took over the co-coordination of the Structured Discussions on Investment Facilitation for Development at the WTO; from May 2023 to May 2024 she was the Chair of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Technology Transfer; and since April 2024 she is the chair of the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. Prior to that, Sofia Boza was an associate professor and chief at the Department of Rural Management and Innovation at the University of Chile and professor at the Institute of International Studies at the same University, as well as external evaluator of public policies for the Budget Office of the Chilean Ministry of Finance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honors) from the University of Seville, a professional title in Commercial Engineering from the University of Chile, a master's in Economic Development and Public Policies and a PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Areas of specialization include agricultural policy and governance, rural development, food markets and international trade. She has been a visiting fellow at the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern, as well as expert instructor at the Institute of Food Laws and Regulations at the Michigan State University. She has participated in numerous research projects and studies founded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development, the Chilean Foundation for Agricultural Innovation, the Chilean Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies, and the Ministry of Social Development of Chile, as well as the Secretariat of State of Economy of Switzerland, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, among others. She has been member of the Board of the Chilean Association of Agricultural Economists and of the Ibero-American Network for Development Studies. Within the University of Chile, she participated in the creation and coordination of the Group of Studies in Agricultural Policy and Development (NEPAD), the Sustainable Agrifood Systems Laboratory (SASLab) and the Chair of Family Farming and Food, to whose Council she belonged to.

This lecture will take place at the World Trade Institute in Bern and Online (via Zoom). 
To register, please email masters@wti.org