Anthony Gooch Gálvez is a dual Spanish & UK national with 30 years of experience as a senior official on the international stage working closely with EU & global business & industry.
In his 15 years as Director at OECD, he worked across major policy areas to develop strategic responses to successive crises: recovery from the GFC included G20-mandated efforts to reform international tax standards to establish fairer tax systems to close down tax havens & tax the digital economy (BEPS). To implement the Paris Agreement, he promoted key OECD standards & work on Climate Change, making significant contributions to OECD projects on the Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence, Trade in Value Added & MNE Guidelines, the Pandemic & War in Ukraine , developing the OECD COVID Hub, To put wellbeing at the centre of policymaking, he conceived the award-winning OECD Better Life Index . He was closely involved in eight accession processes in Europe & Latin America expanding OECD to its current membership of 38.
Orchestrating an ambitious stakeholder strategy, he created the OECD Global Parliamentary Network, engaging key legislators worldwide, including a strategic partnership with the European Parliament, to contribute on global tax reform & artificial intelligence. He was responsible for managing the OECD’s relations with institutional partners Business at OECD & TUAC. As Director of the OECD Forum, he led efforts to engage all stakeholders, establishing partnerships with companies & promoted inclusivity on gender & youth.
As an EU Commission official, trade negotiator & diplomat over 14 years representing the EU, he co-ordinated the groundbreaking EU/Mexico Free Trade Agreement, subsequently being appointed EU Trade Spokesman & Special Adviser to Commissioner Pascal Lamy. His experience included negotiations at WTO Ministerial Meetings in Seattle in 1999 & Doha in 2001 to launch the Doha Trade Round & complete China’s Accession to WTO , the EU Everything But Arms Initiative & WTO Doha Public Health Declaration securing access to medicines for killer diseases. He helped manage high profile trade disputes such as Boeing/Airbus & US steel tariffs.
After an EU Visiting Fellowship in the US, he represented the EU in its Embassy in the US in Washington DC during the complex post 911 period in Transatlantic Relations & subsequently the EU Embassy in the UK in London before being headhunted by OECD.
He began his career as a consultant on EU affairs representing companies & trade associations to EU institutions on Single Market policy issues.
Most recently he has served as Senior Strategic Adviser at Brussels-based think-tank Re-Imagine Europa. He is an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid and Visiting Lecturer at USC in California. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Martens Centre for European Studies.
A recent graduate of IESE Business School ´s Advanced Management Programme, he holds a Postgraduate degree from the Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) & an MA from Cambridge University.
He is married with 3 children and fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
Anthony Gooch Gálvez is a dual Spanish & UK national with 30 years of experience as a senior official on the international stage working closely with EU & global business & industry.
In his 15 years as Director at OECD, he worked across major policy areas to develop strategic responses to successive crises: recovery from the GFC included G20-mandated efforts to reform international tax standards to establish fairer tax systems to close down tax havens & tax the digital economy (BEPS). To implement the Paris Agreement, he promoted key OECD standards & work on Climate Change, making significant contributions to OECD projects on the Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence, Trade in Value Added & MNE Guidelines, the Pandemic & War in Ukraine , developing the OECD COVID Hub, To put wellbeing at the centre of policymaking, he conceived the award-winning OECD Better Life Index . He was closely involved in eight accession processes in Europe & Latin America expanding OECD to its current membership of 38.
Orchestrating an ambitious stakeholder strategy, he created the OECD Global Parliamentary Network, engaging key legislators worldwide, including a strategic partnership with the European Parliament, to contribute on global tax reform & artificial intelligence. He was responsible for managing the OECD’s relations with institutional partners Business at OECD & TUAC. As Director of the OECD Forum, he led efforts to engage all stakeholders, establishing partnerships with companies & promoted inclusivity on gender & youth.
As an EU Commission official, trade negotiator & diplomat over 14 years representing the EU, he co-ordinated the groundbreaking EU/Mexico Free Trade Agreement, subsequently being appointed EU Trade Spokesman & Special Adviser to Commissioner Pascal Lamy. His experience included negotiations at WTO Ministerial Meetings in Seattle in 1999 & Doha in 2001 to launch the Doha Trade Round & complete China’s Accession to WTO , the EU Everything But Arms Initiative & WTO Doha Public Health Declaration securing access to medicines for killer diseases. He helped manage high profile trade disputes such as Boeing/Airbus & US steel tariffs.
After an EU Visiting Fellowship in the US, he represented the EU in its Embassy in the US in Washington DC during the complex post 911 period in Transatlantic Relations & subsequently the EU Embassy in the UK in London before being headhunted by OECD.
He began his career as a consultant on EU affairs representing companies & trade associations to EU institutions on Single Market policy issues.
Most recently he has served as Senior Strategic Adviser at Brussels-based think-tank Re-Imagine Europa. He is an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Madrid and Visiting Lecturer at USC in California. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Martens Centre for European Studies.
A recent graduate of IESE Business School ´s Advanced Management Programme, he holds a Postgraduate degree from the Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) & an MA from Cambridge University.
He is married with 3 children and fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
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