Research Associate

OCHIENG, David Ouma, Centre for International Trade and Investment Law (CITIL), Kenya

Mr. Ochieng, a Kenyan national, is the founding Executive Director of the Kenya based Centre for International Trade and Investment Law (CITIL). He has been engaged in short-term assignments and consultancies in the fields of international trade and development with the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Government of Kenya, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA, Kenya), Actionaid International, the Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development, as well as the Kenya Human Rights Commission. Between 2005 and 2006, Mr. Ochieng was a law lecturer at the Kenya School of Professional Studies.

Mr. Ochieng holds a Masters of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Switzerland and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Moi University in Kenya. He also has specialization certificates in WTO Dispute Settlement (granted jointly by the WTO Training Institute, University of Pretoria and the University of Western Cape), and in Human Rights and Development (from the Good Governance Academy, Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria).

His research interests revolve around trade-related legal reforms, regionalism, international trade dispute settlement, trade remedies and the linkages between trade liberalization and human rights.