近日，墨西哥总统安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥夫拉多尔宣布提名副外长赫苏斯·塞亚德·库里为世界贸易组织总干事候选人。与此同时，“美墨加协定”现任首席谈判代表同期举行了一次虚拟的新闻发布会。墨西哥记者和外媒驻墨记者就探究塞亚德的候选人资格进行了交流。
In a recent announcement, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador nominated Deputy Secretary Jesús Seade to the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In a virtual press conference followed by the announcement, the candidacy of the deputy secretary was presented and explained to Mexican reporters and foreign correspondents, who has had a long and prominent career, as the next step needed to strengthen the World Trade Organization, specifically, and the global multilateral architecture, overall.
关于赫苏斯·塞亚德·库里 | About Jesús Seade
赫苏斯·塞亚德·库里对非洲、拉美、亚洲、欧洲、中东以及北美的经济和贸易动态具有广泛的了解，并且曾与世界贸易中最重要的参与者们进行过重要谈判。塞亚德副部长在全球主要经济组织中的经验（其中包括关税与贸易总协定（GATT）、国际货币基金组织（IMF）、世界银行（WB）以及世界贸易组织本身）都印证了他在高级多边商业措施中施展的能力。
Jesús Seade has an extensive understanding of the economies and trade dynamics in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, and well-established relationships with the leading actors in world trade. His long experience in the most important international economic organizations —including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the World Trade Organization itself— is a proven track record of his abilities within these key multilateral trade institutions.
塞亚德担任墨西哥驻关贸总协定大使期间，为墨西哥赢得了有关水泥行业反倾销和墨西哥金枪鱼禁运的重要贸易争端。此外，他代表墨西哥担任了“乌拉圭回合”的首席谈判官，“乌拉圭回合”谈判是现在世贸组织的前身。当时，在谈判处于瘫痪状态的情况下，达成更换关贸总协定高层领导人的建议。经该组织一致协商，任命彼得·萨瑟兰德为新任首席执行官，且那时塞亚德大使被任命为新任副首席执行官。
As Mexico’s ambassador to the GATT, Deputy Secretary Seade gave it important victories in trade disputes over antidumping duties on cement and the tuna embargo. He also represented Mexico as chief negotiator to the Uruguay Round, the origin of the current WTO. Negotiations were paralyzed, and it was agreed to make changes to the GATT senior leadership. The organization unanimously appointed Peter Sutherland as the new director-general, with then-Ambassador Seade as the new deputy director-general.
新团队摆脱困境并使谈判取得了圆满成功，包括为最不发达国家集团（主要是非洲）的利益，塞亚德亲自成功地主持了一次新一轮谈判。在这一系列的谈判过程中，产生了世贸组织，取代了关贸总协定，而现任“美墨加协定”的首席谈判官曾担任了世贸组织的创始副总干事。
The new team steered the negotiations to a successful conclusion, which included renegotiating benefits for the least-developed countries (LDCs), mainly in Africa, a process led by Deputy Secretary Seade. This series of negotiations led to the creation of the WTO as a replacement for the GATT, where Seade served as founding deputy director-general.
在国际货币基金组织担任高级顾问期间，他推动了阿根廷、土耳其和巴西金融危机中的机构政策管理，并主持了大规模取消15个非洲国家面临高负债的谈判，这证明了他具备在发展中经济体的谈判经验及技巧。此前，他曾担任世界银行高级经济学专家。在这两个机构任职期间，他领导了非洲、中东和拉丁美洲等五十多个国家的技术援助团。
At the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as a senior advisor, he was responsible for managing the IMF’s policies on the financial crises in Argentina, Turkey and Brazil, also negotiating debt relief for fifteen high-debt African countries, confirming his experience with developing economies and his skill as a negotiator. He also served previously as principal economist at the World Bank. At both institutions, he led technical assistance missions for more than fifty countries in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
赫苏斯·塞亚德·库里曾在墨西哥国立自治大学主修化学工程专业，并师从诺贝尔经济学奖得主詹姆斯·米尔里斯，并获得英国牛津大学经济学的硕士及博士学位。他的博士论文主要研究优化税收和收入分配政策。他曾任英国华威大学教授和墨西哥学院经济研究中心的创始理事，以及墨西哥核能委员会的执行会长。在香港，他曾担任岭南大学副校长；在中国，他曾担任香港中文大学深圳分校的全球事务副校长。此外，2018年他在担任“墨美加协议”首席谈判官之前，还曾担任香港工业贸易署署长的高级顾问。
Jesús Seade studied Chemical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received master’s and doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford, England, under the guidance of the Nobel Prize in Economics, James Mirrlees. He wrote his doctoral thesis on optimal tax policies for income distribution. He was chair professor at Warwick University, UK, and founding director of the Center for Economic Studies of El Colegio de México (Colmex), as well as executive secretary of the Mexican Nuclear Energy Commission. In Hong Kong, he was vice president of Lingnan University, and in China he was associate vice president for Global Affairs at the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen. He has also served as senior advisor to the Hong Kong Secretaries of Financial Services and Trade and Industry, prior to becoming Mexico’s chief negotiator of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in 2018.
新闻资讯由墨西哥驻广州总领事馆提供
News Source: The Consulate General of Mexico in Guangzhou
