Dr. Amrita Bahri is Professor of International Trade Law at ITAM and Chair Professor for WTO Chair Program (Mexico).

Amrita has published in the areas of international trade law, inclusive trade policies, WTO dispute settlement, and public private partnership for capacity-building in emerging economies. She has authored the book Trade Agreements and Women: Transcending Barriers (Oxford University Press, 2025), which is the recipient of the American Society of International Law Book Award 2025-2026. She has also authored another monograph Public Private Partnership for WTO dispute settlement: Enabling Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2018). She has edited volumes that include Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pandemic Era (Hart Publishing 2021) and Trade Policy and Gender Equality (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Her academic articles are published in prestigious journals including Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, European Journal of International Law, and others. Amrita also serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) and Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI).

Amrita has been appointed by the European Commission to the pool of candidates to Chair the Expert Panel Proceedings on Trade and Sustainable Development. Working with International Trade Centre’s (ITC) team, Amrita has designed the very first framework to measure gender-responsiveness of free trade agreements. She explains this framework in ITC’s policy paper titled “Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements”.

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