SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL
James Bacchus is an American lawyer, businessman and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1991 to 1995. He is a CIGI senior fellow, as well as the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge, twice chairman and chief judge of the Appellate Body at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. As well as sitting in the US Congress, he served as a trade negotiator for the United States. James is a senior counsellor to the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development in Switzerland and a senior fellow of the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. He served on the high-level advisory panel to the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, chaired the Global Commission on Trade and Investment Policy of the International Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Global Sustainability Council of the World Economic Forum. For more than 14 years, he chaired the global practice of a law firm that is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
