tralac develops and delivers focused short courses and workshops covering various trade law and policy related issues, often at the request of specific clients to address specific training needs. If you or your organisation would like to request training from tralac, please complete the form below and then click Submit. You will receive email confirmation once the form has been submitted.

GODWIN PUNUNGWE has over 40 years’ experience in railway and road transport, trade and transport facilitation. He has worked for: National Railway of Zimbabwe; SADC as Railway Expert; USAID Regional Centre for Southern Africa; African Development Bank as Transport Advisor attached to NEPAD; USAID Southern Africa Global Trade Hub; AUC as Team Leader for defining and designing SMART Corridors; and lastly SADC as Transport Coordinator for the Tripartite Transport and Transit Facilitation Programme up to May 2023. He is currently a freelance Senior Consultant. He is Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (MCIT), Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT); holds a Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Master of International Management (MIM) and Master of Policy Studies.

Songezo Mabece is a Special Legal Advisor & Researcher at The Competition Commission of South Africa. He is a tralac Alumnus.

Eunice Phiri is Chief Investigator of Consumer Protection at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in Lusaka, Zambia.

tralac Alumnus, Senior Assistant Director, Corporate Communications, Micro Small Enterprise Authority.

LLM. International Trade & Investment Lawyer based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Adetutu Talabi is a tralac alumnus based in Nigeria. She successfully completed tralac's Certificate Course on International Trade and Policy Development in Africa.

Nina Stevenson is tralac’s Programme Management Officer. She assists with the management of training, communications and media.

Beru Lilako is a specialist in Trade Policy, Regional Integration and Digital Economy. He has worked as a Trade Advisor at Lime Group Consulting Africa, as well as a Trade Specialist at the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and as a Trade Policy Coordinator at the East African Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture. He obtained a Certificate, International Trade Law & Policy from tralac in 2020 and forms part of tralac’s alumni network.

Kahaki Jere is a former tralac Intern, 2013. She is currently working with the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority in Malawi. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) focused in International Trade Law from the University of Cape Town.

Patrick Low, a Kenyan and Spanish national, is a Fellow at the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong and a Senior Adviser for Tulip Consulting. He currently works in an advisory capacity and as a consultant. From 2013-2016 he was Vice-President of research at the Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong, and taught at the University of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2019. He worked for the World Trade Organization from 1995, first on trade in services and then from 1997 to 2013 as the WTO’s Chief Economist. Between 1987 and 1995 he taught at the Colegio de México (1987-1990), and worked in the research arm of the World Bank in Washington D.C. (1990-1994). He was with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (precursor to WTO) from 1980 to 1987. He holds a PhD in economics from Sussex University and has written widely on trade and trade-related issues.

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