Bios -- Jonathan Hepburn and Christophe Bellmann

Jonathan Hepburn is Agriculture Programme Officer and Christophe Bellman, Programmes Director at the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

The ICTSD was established in Geneva in September 1996 to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade.

As an independent non-profit and non-governmental organisation, ICTSD engages a broad range of actors in ongoing dialogue about trade and sustainable development. With a wide network of governmental, non-governmental and inter-governmental partners, ICTSD plays a unique systemic role as a provider of original, non-partisan reporting and facilitation services at the intersection of international trade and sustainable development.

ICTSD facilitates interaction between policy-makers and those outside the system to help trade policy become more supportive of sustainable development. www.ictsd.org