EUCLID Faculty Profiles

Dr. Ese Stephen OWIE

Dr Ese Stephen Owie is an international trade lawyer, international law scholar, trade policy and sustainable finance practitioner with 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 is Associate Professor of International Trade Law, International Relations, Trade Diplomacy, and Policy at Euclid University; Senior Advisor to the Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future Project, working with Professor Daniel C. Esty (Yale University) and Professor Joel Trachtman (Tufts University) on next-generation WTO reform; Convenor of the Africa Trade Policy Working Group, a Pan-African platform launched at the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé to advance coordinated African agency in
global trade governance; Expert with the Trade and Public Policy Network (TaPP) at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government; Visiting Fellow at Essex Law School; President of The Cavendish Institute; and CEO of the University of Oxford Climate Alumni Network.

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 a DPhil in Public International Law from the University of Oxford (Linacre College); 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.

📅 Last updated: May 6, 2026

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