The last time the World Trade Organisation met was in December 2013. Back then neither the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) nor the campaign to stop TTIP had even started.
Trade seemed to be off the agenda and after years of stalled negotiations the WTO was expected to slowly become irrelevant.
The WTO is meeting again this week but this time in Nairobi and for the first time in Africa, and I will be there.