Vangelis Vitalis
Deputy Secretary Trade and Economic, New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vangelis Vitalis is Deputy Secretary, Trade and Economic. He was the APEC2021 Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) Chair for New Zealand’s host year and in 2023 Vangelis will be chairing the Senior Officials' process that supports the CPTPP Ministerial meetings. Vangelis was also the Chief Negotiator who led the conclusion of negotiations for the New Zealand European Union Free Trade Agreement and before that the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. In 2007-9, Vangelis was also the Chief Negotiator who concluded the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) and the Malaysia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (MNZFTA).
Prior to taking up his current role in 2017, Vangelis was the New Zealand Ambassador to the EU and most recently New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva where he chaired the agriculture negotiations in a personal capacity, including helping to draft the text of the Nairobi Ministerial Decision which eliminated agricultural export subsidies.Vangelis has previously worked as an economist at the OECD Secretariat and has chaired (in a personal capacity) the OECD Working Party on Trade and the Environment and the OECD Global Forum on Trade and Climate Change.
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