Dr. Jan Yves Remy is Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services (SRC) of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. In addition to her outreach and research activities at the SRC, she teaches trade law and Caribbean regional integration in the SRC’s flagship Masters in International Trade Policy Programme. Her doctoral thesis focused on the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice in promoting Caribbean regional integration. Jan Yves also serves as Chair for the University of the West Indies (Barbados) under the Chair Programme of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She has also served as a WTO panelist in a dispute between WTO Members.

Jan Yves holds a Ph.D. in International Law (summa cum laude) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), an LL.M (Hons) in Commercial and International Law from the University of Cambridge (UK) and an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados). Prior to joining the SRC, Jan Yves worked for five years as a Senior Trade Associate at the offices of Sidley Austin LLP in Geneva and Washington D.C and as a Legal Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO, where she assisted Members of the Appellate Body in their disposition of appeals in trade disputes.