Biography: Trade & Customs

Cynthia Kramer is an associate at L O Baptista, Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira, Agel and, together with Professor Luiz Olavo Baptista (who was a former member of the WTO appellate body), chairs the firm's international trade area. She has been practising international trade law for the past 12 years and has broad experience with trade remedies, WTO and customs law. Cynthia Kramer worked for the Brazilian government in Geneva at the Brazilian Mission before the WTO (2003 and 2004), in Brasilia at the coordination of disputes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005) and in Washington, DC at the Brazilian Embassy (2007). At these positions, she followed the Doha negotiations, the review of the WTO dispute settlement understanding and the trade remedies investigations and WTO disputes involving Brazil.

More recently, L O Baptista, Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira, Agel, together with two international law firms, won the bid to represent the Brazilian government at the WTO disputes.

Besides advising the public and private sectors, Cynthia Kramer has been a researcher for IDCID – a Brazilian institute specialised in international trade, and has published some articles and books. She coordinates the ABCI Institute in São Paulo – an American institute in international trade and the WTO committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP).

From an academic perspective, Cynthia Kramer graduated in Law from the University of Sao Paulo, where she is currently finishing her doctorate on trade remedies. She studied Economy applied to Law at FGV/SP and Customs Regulations at Aduaneiras. For the past four years she has been teaching international trade law at specialised and MBA programmes in Sao Paulo.