Peter Govindasamy
Peter Govindasamy is Deputy Director (Energy Division, and WTO & International Trade Negotiations Division), Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry
Peter Govindasamy works for Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). As Director of the International Trade Cluster, he is overseeing WTO Policy and Negotiations; Climate Change Negotiations; and Services & Investment Policy and Negotiations. Before joining the Ministry of Trade and Industry, he spent 8 years with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he specialised in Foreign Economic Policy issues, European Union matters and International Organisations such as the UN, ILO, IAEA and the WTO. Since joining the Ministry of Trade and Industry in 1998, he has had extensive FTA experience as lead services and rules negotiator in a number of Singapore's FTAs. In addition, he has served two stints in Geneva, 1995-98 (as First Secretary) and 2003-09 (as Counsellor). Between 2005-09, he chaired the WTO negotiations on Domestic Regulations in services, and has circulated a draft text. He also served as the Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Import Licensing Measures in 2005 and 2006. In addition, he has chaired the ASEAN-India FTA (services) negotiations.
Aside from his foreign and trade policy and negotiations experience, Peter has also had a stint in MTI's Energy Division. He is a member of the Singapore's delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations. He holds a honours degree (2nd Class Upper Division) in Economics from the National University of Singapore, and an LLM in International Commercial Law (with distinction) from the University of Nottingham (UK), under the Raffles-Chevening Scholarship programme.