Christophe Bellman is a Senior Resident Research Associate at ICTSD. He also works as adviser to the Africa Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) and the LDC Group in the WTO on areas related to trade and environment, fisheries, agriculture and industrial goods. Mr. Bellmann joined ICTSD in 1998 and was appointed in 2002 as Programmes Director responsible for fundraising, management and overall supervision of ICTSD’s research, dialogue and capacity building programmes in Geneva and in the regions. Before joining ICTSD, Mr. Bellmann worked for the Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations (SCDO) where he was responsible for activities on multilateral trade and sustainable development issues and as a Research Associate at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on the relationship between trade and the environment. Mr. Bellmann has edited and published a wide range of books, articles and opinion pieces on the trade and sustainable development interface. He holds an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. Mr. Bellmann is a citizen of Switzerland.