Ese Owie

• Associate Professor of International Law and Policy, Euclid University | Pôle Universitaire Euclide
• Visiting Research Fellow in the Law School, University of Essex

Dr Ese Owie is an international trade lawyer, public policy strategist, and sustainable finance practitioner whose work bridges law, economics, and climate governance.

He holds a DPhil in Public International Law from the University of Oxford and currently serves as CEO of the Oxford Climate Alumni Network (OxCAN).

He is also an Associate Professor of International Trade Law, International Relations, Trade Diplomacy, and Policy at EUCLID (Pôle Universitaire Euclide/Euclid University); Visiting Research Fellow at Essex Law School; Convenor of the Africa Trade Policy Working Group; Senior Advisor to the Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future Project; and Expert at the Trade and Public Policy Network (TaPP) domiciled at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. His research and advisory work increasingly engage questions concerning trade, energy transition, climate governance, and geopolitical transformation.

Dr Owie has nearly three decades of multi- jurisdictional experience advising governments, multilateral institutions, non- profits, private organisations, and policy platforms on international economic law, WTO law, regional integration, climate-trade governance, renewable energy, infrastructure strategy, and sustainable development.

He previously served as Executive Director and Chief Responsibility Officer of the Centre for International Trade and Policy in Geneva; Special Adviser with Cabinet Rank to the Governor of Edo State, Nigeria; and Executive Chairman of the Edo State Board of Internal Revenue, where he led major institutional revenue reforms.

Dr Owie holds an LLM in International Law with distinction from the University of Hull, where he received the Josephine C. Onoh Memorial Prize for best graduating student; a BL from the Nigerian Law School; and an LLB from the University of Benin. He has also undertaken executive and professional education at the Harvard Kennedy School; the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Foundry Fellow at the Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship; the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Vrije Universiteit Brussels; the University of Greifswald; the Oxford Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance; the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy; and The Hague Academy of International Law.

Research & Interests:
Dr Owie's research, teaching, and advisory work sit at the intersection of public international law, international trade law, trade economics, trade policy, geopolitics, geopolitical risk, critical minerals, climate change, sustainable development, sustainability strategy, and the energy transition. His current research examines how global trade rules can be reimagined to support sustainable development, climate alignment, green industrialisation, digital transformation, and equitable participation by developing and resource-dependent economies in global value chains. His work engages WTO reform, dispute settlement, subsidies, services liberalisation, special and differential treatment, trade and climate measures, carbon border adjustments, digital trade, artificial intelligence, data governance, trade remedies, market access, SPS and non-tariff barriers, investment, government procurement, and the AfCFTA interface with the multilateral trading system. He is particularly interested in how trade law and policy can respond to the strategic pressures of a just climate transition, critical minerals governance, energy security, infrastructure finance, industrial policy, and supply-chain vulnerability. His teaching interests include international economic law, WTO law and jurisprudence, international trade negotiations, trade diplomacy, regional integration, international business, financial markets regulation, sustainable finance, climate- trade governance, and the political economy of development, with a strong emphasis on translating rigorous legal and economic analysis into practical tools for policymakers, negotiators, regulators, and future public leaders.

• –present Associate Professor of International Law and Policy, Pôle Universitaire Euclide (Euclid University)
• –present Visiting Research Fellow, Essex University Law School

• University of Oxford, DPhil in Public International Law
• University of Benin, LLB
• University of Hull, LLM in International Law with distinction

• CEO of the Oxford Climate Alumni Network
• Expert at the Trade and Public Policy Network (TaPP) domiciled at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government.
• Senior Advisor to the Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future Project
• Convenor of the Africa Trade Policy Working Group

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