Mr. Peter Lunenborg is a Researcher at the South Centre, a Geneva-based international organisation with 54 Member countries. He is a seasoned treaty negotiator, policy advisor and trainer in the area of international trade and investment policy. His areas of work include trade and environment, private standards, non-tariff barriers, investment facilitation, fisheries subsidies and agriculture. He designed and conceptualized an ECOWAS Regulation which enabled the implementation Common External Tariff (CET) among West-African countries. His work on bilateral trade agreements have contributed to changes in treaty texts. Mr. Lunenborg is a member of the Advisory Panel to United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS). In 2013, he was involved in Club of Rome's Change The Course Conference and its manifesto. He has, among others, published in the Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy and the Global Trade and Customs Journal. He has been actively working with several UN agencies including UN-DESA, UNECA and UNEP and other organisations such as Commonwealth Secretariat. He holds master degrees in Law as well as Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.