Antonia Carzaniga

2024 Privacy Symposium-Keynote Speaker

Antonia Carzaniga

Counsellor, WTO

Antonia Carzaniga is Counsellor in the Trade in Services and Investment Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO).  She has worked in the WTO since 1998.  She is responsible for the Council for Trade in Services, and deals, inter alia, with issues relating to electronic commerce, the movement of natural persons (mode 4), and air transport services.  She has conducted many technical assistance activities focused on services trade and the disciplines of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, including for economies acceding to the WTO.  Ms Carzaniga has published extensively on matters relating to trade in services, including by coordinating the WTO’s 2019 World Trade Report “The Future of Services Trade”, and has contributed to many expert fora, conferences and academic seminars.  She holds an economics degree from Bocconi University, Italy, and Master’s degrees from the College of Europe, Belgium, and the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.