WTO launched an open competition for intending candidates for the WTO Young Professionals Programme which will run in 2025. The World Trade Organization Young Professionals Program (YPP) is a capacity-building program established for young graduates to busy practical work experience in the field of international trade.
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| WTO Fully Funded Young Professionals Program (YPP) 2025 |
It is a program lasting for a year in the headquarters of the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland. Those selected professionals will be made to receive a salary of CHF 3,500 and will enjoy medical cover and travel expenses. The program is scheduled to start in January 2025.
To date, the Programme has been completed by 109 professionals who have been in the course since it was launched in 2016. It is the chance for both growing up and living a year in Switzerland simultaneously.
Students from developing and least-developed countries that are members of the WTO can send their job applications. This program aims to help participants deepen their knowledge of the WTO, as well as the skills acquired are relevant for a career in international trade. The topics are described in more detail below.
The WTO Young Professionals Program (YPP) 2025
- Country: Switzerland
- Location: WTO office, Geneva
- Duration: One year
- Benefits: Fully Funded
- Deadline: 2nd April 2024
Benefits And Advantages of WTO YPP
The benefits of Joining a World Trade Organization as a Young Professional: The benefits of Joining a World Trade Organization as a Young Professional:
- 3,500 CHF salary.
- Medical cover
- A) Airfare and ground transportation costs to Switzerland and vice versa B) Ticket and ground transportation costs for Switzerland and back to your own country
Areas of Work
The scope of work is expected to be categorized as:
- Accessions
- Agriculture
- Dispute settlement
- Intellectual property rights
- Government procurement (GPA)
- Competition policy
- Market access
- Rules, Trade, and Development
- Trade and environment
- Service trade and investment, Trade facilitation, Trade policy analysis, and trade-related technical assistance are some of the priority areas for the OECD.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a citizen of any state that is a member of the WTO. The list of members can be found on this page.
- Have advanced university degrees in international trade-related subjects, which include law, economics as well as other subjects relevant to WTO work.
- possess two years of related experience as a requirement.
- be fluent in English.
- Not more than 32 years is the age.
- Aspiring candidates must hand in a letter of motivation and complete the online application process.
How To Get The WTO Young Professional Programme (YPP) 2025?
You have to submit the applications via the WTO website to the external jobs tab. The system gives guidance on how to fill in the application form online. The web link to the official website is also mentioned at the bottom.