Brains Trust: Barry Desker
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The real losers are cotton farmers in West Africa, textile workers in low income Asian and Muslim states, and low income shoppers in the poorest quarters of America and Europe. The Doha Round was supposed to help the world's poor, by lowering subsidies that keep Mali's cotton out of textile mills, tariffs that limit the flow of Cambodian T-shirts and other clothes to shelves. The big countries had a chance to help the poor and flopped.

All Fall Down, by Edward Gresser YaleGlobal, 27 July 2006

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Mr Barry Desker is Director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. Mr Desker is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Singapore International Foundation, Jurong Port Pte Ltd and Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd. He is a Trustee of Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

His past portfolios include being Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Trade Development Board, Singapore's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, and Singapore's Ambassador to Indonesia. He was previously on the Boards of Sime SembCorp Engineering Sdn Bhd, as well as Sembawang Engineering and Construction Pte Ltd (now SembCorp Utilities Pte Ltd).

Mr Desker, a President's Scholar, graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) degree and obtained his Masters degree from the University of London.
Publications:
07/06/2006 Southeast Asia Casts Wide Net for Cooperation – YaleGlobal (News)
07/11/2002 East Asian Free Trade Areas and the Doha Round – Evian Group (Policy brief)

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