Soledad Leal Campos is a Geneva-based senior international trade and sustainable development specialist with three decades of experience in international trade law and policy and the interlinkages with other public policy areas. This includes fifteen years as multilateral trade and investment negotiator for the Mexican Government with postings to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, where she was Deputy Head of Mission. At the OECD, she participated in the negotiation of legal instruments such as the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Anti-Bribery Convention, and the Recommendation on Export Credits and the Environment. In Geneva, she coordinated Mexico’s position in the Doha Round on trade facilitation; trade and environment; fisheries subsidies; trade and development; accessions, among other topics.

Soledad’s experience also encompasses a leading role on sustainable trade with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) where she undertook policy work and delivered capacity building activities for developing country negotiators on investment facilitation (IF); electronic commerce; and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). She also participated in research and publication on IF; MSMEs; product sustainability information in e-commerce; and voluntary sustainability standards and forest-related provisions in trade agreements. As independent professional, Soledad has done consultancy work for the OECD (Costa Rica’s market openness review) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), in which she facilitated a community of practice of 1700 participants and designed and facilitated 15 webinars on trade facilitation, foreign investment and global value chains.

Soledad delivers face-to-face training sessions on the WTO and on international negotiations for Government officials and other mid-career professionals at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, as well as at the College of Europe in Brugge. She is a lawyer (University of Guadalajara) and holds a Master's in International Economic Law (University of Paris II). She holds dual Swiss-Mexican nationality and speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.