Dmitry Lyakishev (born 1974) served as Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the WTO from 2019 to 2024.
Previously, he was a member of Russia’s WTO accession team for eight years (from 2004 to 2012).
From 2008 to 2013 he led Trade Policy Section of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation in Geneva.
From 2002 to 2008 Mr. Lyakishev worked for the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation: in 2002-2004 – in the division responsible for trade relations with the EU, since 2004 – as head of the WTO unit in the Department for Trade Negotiations of the above Ministry.
Apart from participation in trade negotiations, he contributed to bringing the Russian legislation in compliance with the WTO rules, as well as in organizing WTO-related conferences, round tables, other awareness-rising events throughout Russia.
From 2013 to 2017 he worked for the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia).
From 2017 to 2019 he was posted in Brussels, at the position of Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union.
Mr. Lyakishev graduated from Moscow State University in 1996. In 2002 he obtained a degree in Economics (World Economy and International Economic Relations) at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
He contributed to several studies and manual books on trade policy and the WTO (the most recent: “WTO Accessions and Trade Multilateralism”, Cambridge, 2016; “WTO Rules and the Basics of Trade Policy” (in Russian), Moscow, 2017).
