Aik Hoe LIM is currently Director of the Trade and Environment Division at the World Trade Organization and is in charge of its work on environment-related matters, as well as on the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and its Committee. He joined the organization in 1999 and has since has held many different positions in the organization. He has been Counsellor in the Cabinet of two WTO Director-Generals (2001-2005), Adviser to the Director General’s Consultative Group on "The Future of the WTO”, Secretary to WTO committees, working groups and negotiating bodies in the area of services trade, as well as focal point for WTO-UN and parliamentary relations. Before joining the WTO, he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the G-15, Urban Habitat (Employment) Specialist at the International Labour Organization and has worked as a Chartered Surveyor in the field of urban environmental regeneration. He is currently a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's Board of High-Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance. He has published widely on services trade, domestic regulation and the environment, including the book "WTO Domestic Regulation and Services Trade: Putting principles into practice" released by Cambridge University Press in 2014.