2022 WTO Young Professionals Programme (YPP)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is calling for applications for the 2022 WTO Young Professionals Programme (YPP).

The YPP is addressed to qualified young professionals up to the age of 32 years from a developing or least developed country.

Some of the requirements the applicants must fulfil are the following:

• The applicants must hold an advanced university degree in law, economics, or other international trade-related subjects relevant to the WTO’s work.
• The applicants must be fluent in English. Good working knowledge of Spanish is an advantage.
• Applications must include a letter of motivation indicating up to three work areas which may include Intellectual Property Rights, Dispute Settlement, Trade and Development.

The selected applicant “will be placed in a specific Division of the WTO Secretariat in accordance with the needs and priorities of the Organization”.

The deadline to apply is 29 April 2021. More information here.

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