Rashid S. Kaukab is currently Deputy Director and Research Coordinator at the CUTS Geneva Resource Centre, Geneva, Switzerland. His long career includes working for the government of Pakistan as a field administrator, in the ministry of finance, and as Counsellor on trade and economic issues in Pakistan Mission to the UN/WTO in Geneva. He joined the Geneva-based South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries, in March 1998 where he worked as Coordinator of South Centre Work Programme on Trade and Development, as Head, Strategic Policy and Planning, and as Acting Head, Programme and Research Coordination. He led the South Centre delegation to the Geneva, Seattle, Doha and Cancun Ministerial Conferences of the WTO and the XI Ministerial Conference of UNCTAD. He has also worked for UNCTAD as a Senior Consultant. Rashid S. Kaukab graduated from GC Lahore in Economics and English Literature and has Masters Degrees in Economics (Karachi University) and Business Administration (Yale University).