Eddy Bekkers is research economist at the World Trade Organization focusing on quantitative trade modelling. Before he was a postdoctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute and assistant professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Bekkers holds a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam and masters in economics and econometrics from the University of Amsterdam. He conducts research on a wide range of topics in international trade: firm heterogeneity, gravity modeling, traded goods prices, food price pass through, trade conflicts, foreign affiliate sales and trade in services. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, and World Economy.
Chad P. Bown is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research examines international trade laws and institutions, trade negotiations, and trade disputes. With Soumaya Keynes, he cohosts Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the economics of international trade policy. Bown previously served as senior economist for international trade and investment in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers and most recently as a lead economist at the World Bank, conducting research and advising developing country governments on international trade policy for seven years. Bown was a tenured professor of economics at Brandeis University for twelve years and also spent a year as a visiting scholar in economic research at the World Trade Organization Secretariat in Geneva.
Olivier Cattaneo is head of the policy analysis and strategy unit at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Development Cooperation Directorate. He previously worked as a senior economist at the World Bank. He was responsible for trade policy at the Agence Française de Développement, has worked as an adviser and speechwriter to French ministers and members of Parliament, and as a trade expert in several international organizations. Cattaneo was a research associate with the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale de SciencesPo and has taught at various institutions, including Yale University where he was a World Fellow. A member of the New York Bar, he holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and is a graduate of SciencesPo and Georgetown University.
Jaime de Melo is emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, academic advisor at the Geneva Business School, and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), a think tank whose primary, research-based purpose, is to influence the international discussion on major development issues. Before joining the faculty at the University of Geneva in 1993, Professor de Melo taught at Georgetown University, worked in the World Bank’s research department, and consulted for the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, SECO, the International Growth Centre, the World Bank, and several governments. A founding member of the World Trade Institute, he has held several editorial positions and was editor-in-chief of the World Bank Economic Review from 2005 to 2010. His interests are in developing countries, particularly issues relating to trade policy, migration, and the environment.
Simon Evenett is professor of international trade and economic development at the University of St. Gallen and the coordinator of Global Trade Alert, the independent trade policy monitor. Over the past decade his research interests have focused on protectionism and how governments and firms seek to influence or respond to it. Professor Evenett obtained his PhD in economics from Yale University and a BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Michigan, was a (nonresident) senior fellow in the economic studies program at Brookings Institution, and has served twice as a World Bank official. Twice he has been the DLA Piper Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He regularly engages with private sector practitioners, government officials and other thought leaders.
Joseph Michael Finger was with the World Bank from 1980 to 2001, where he served as lead economist and chief of the Trade Policy Research Group, and was the World Bank’s initial coordinator for the Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries. He is known for his seminal work in several areas of international economics, including how the GATT/WTO system relates to development; development assistance within the WTO system; trade restrictions, such as safeguards and antidumping in Latin American trade liberalization; and the commercial value of intellectual property in poorer communities. Before his work at the World Bank, he held key positions at the US Treasury Department and UNCTAD. Mr. Finger held a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina. He passed away in 2018.
Joseph Francois is managing director at the World Trade Institute and professor of international economics at the University of Bern. He is a CEPR Research Fellow and director of the European Trade Study Group. Previously he was professor of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, research economist for the World Trade Organization, and chief of research and acting director of economics for the US International Trade Commission. His current research interests include cross-border production chains and employment; globalization and inequality; trade in services; open economy growth and development; and trade and investment policy under imperfect competition, among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland.
Jean-Jacques Hallaert is currently senior economist in the European department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From 2002 to 2008 he was in the IMF’s Policy Development and Review department under the Trade Policy division. He has spent most of his career with international organizations, having served as a senior trade policy analyst working on Aid for Trade at the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate, in between two substantial terms at the IMF. He previously was with the French Ministry of Finances in the Forecasting Directorate where he worked on macroeconomic analysis of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe as well as on the EU enlargement. He was a lecturer at SciencesPo, from which he also received his master’s degree and PhD under the direction of Patrick Messerlin.
Bernard Hoekman is professor and director of global economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy where he also serves as the dean for external relations. Previous positions include director of the International Trade Department (2008–2013) and research manager in the Development Research Group (2001–2008) at the World Bank. He was a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Secretariat during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. A CEPR Research Fellow and a senior associate of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey, he has been a member of several World Economic Forum Global Future Councils. A graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.
Anne O. Krueger is senior research professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a senior fellow of the Center for International Development (of which she was founding Director) at Stanford University. She was first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (2001–2006), served as vice president for economics and research at the World Bank (1982–1986) and has taught at Stanford and Duke Universities. She is distinguished fellow and past president of the American Economic Association and a senior research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has published extensively on economic development, international trade and finance, and economic policy reform. Her most recent book is International Trade: What everyone needs to know (2020). She holds a BA from Oberlin College and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin.
Patrick Low is a consultant on trade and trade-related matters. From 1997 to 2013 he was the chief economist of the World Trade Organization, where he was responsible for overseeing the organization’s research work and statistical services. Subsequently, he was vice president for research at the Fung Global Institute where he focused on the role of services in production and trade; he then taught on trade and climate change as adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University Business School. In 2017 he directed the Asia Global Institute’s inaugural AsiaGlobal Fellows Program. During the 1980s he worked in various capacities for the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT). He holds a PhD in economics from Sussex University and has written widely on trade policy issues.
Petros C. Mavroidis is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School. He teaches the law of the World Trade Organization, where he was previously a member of the Legal Affairs division. He is also professor of law at the University of Neuchâtel, and a nonresident fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. His latest major publication is the book The Regulation of International Trade, a meticulous exploration of World Trade Organization agreements regulating trade in goods which won the 2017 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. At Columbia Law he is a member of the Center on Global Governance.
Sébastien Miroudot is senior trade policy analyst in the Trade in Services division of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. Previously he was a research assistant at Groupe d’Economie Mondiale and taught in the master’s degree programme at SciencesPo, Paris. In 2016–2017, he was visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University. His research interests include trade in services, the relationship between trade and investment and the role of multinational enterprises in international trade. At the OECD his current work is on the measurement of trade in value-added terms and the trade policy implications of global value chains. He holds a PhD in international economics from SciencesPo.
Douglas Nelson is professor of economics at Tulane University. He is currently an external fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham. In addition to previous positions with the US Treasury and the World Bank, he has held regular faculty positions at Rutgers University, University of Texas-Dallas, and Syracuse University, and has held recent visiting positions at ETH-Zurich; University of Bayreuth; University of Bern; and the European University Institute. His primary research interests are in the areas of political economy of trade policy, the empirical link between globalization and wages, and trade and trade policy under increasing returns to scale. He obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa is a research economist at the World Bank. He worked as senior fellow researcher at the World Trade Institute in Bern (2018–2020), as a senior researcher at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (2006–2018), and previously at the Central Bank of Costa Rica. He has consulted for national governments (Switzerland, United Kingdom) and many international organizations, including the World Bank, the IADB, UNCTAD, UNDP, ECLAC, OECD, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and INCAE Business School (Costa Rica). He obtained his PhD in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests include international trade policy, quantitative trade analysis and CGE modeling, the effects of globalization on labor markets and income distribution, foreign direct investment, trade in value-added, and global supply chains.
Ben Shepherd is the principal of Developing Trade Consultants, an organization that aims to spur economic growth and development with evidence-based research and analysis. Prior to founding DTC in 2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. He has worked on a wide range of trade and development issues with organizations such as the World Bank, the OECD, the Asian Development Bank, the IDB, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. He specializes in providing policy-relevant research, as well as capacity-building seminars for researchers working in trade and development. His areas of expertise include trade policy, global value chains, trade facilitation and logistics, trade in services, and global trade modeling. He holds a PhD in economics from SciencesPo, Paris.
Erik van der Marel is a senior economist at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and associate professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His expertise is in services trade, digital trade, and the free flow of data, including policy regulations in these areas. Prior to ECIPE, Professor van der Marel lectured at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD in economics from Sciences-Po Paris and his current work includes the development of the Digital Trade Restrictiveness Index (DTRI), which records digital trade policy restrictions for sixty-four countries. Van der Marel has also gained professional experience as a consultant economist at the World Bank since 2013, and as a guest lecturer at the World Trade Institute and the European University Institute.
Craig VanGrasstek has been a consultant since 1982, working in over four dozen countries on five continents. In addition to advising governments, corporations, and international organizations, he has taught politics at American University, trade at Harvard, and literature at Georgetown. His areas of expertise include the history and structure of the trading system; the policymaking process; and the relationships between trade, power, and development. VanGrasstek received his doctorate in politics from Princeton University, and holds degrees in international relations from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The History and Future of the World Trade Organization (2013), and Trade and American Leadership: The Paradoxes of Power and Wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (2019), among other publications.
L. Alan Winters is professor of economics and director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory in the University of Sussex. From 2008 to 2011 he was chief economist at the British government’s Department for International Development, and from 2004 to 2007 he was director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Professor Winters was editor of The World Trade Review from 2009 to 2020. He has advised the OECD, the European Commission, UNCTAD, the World Trade Organization, and the IDB. Winters is a leading specialist on the empirical and policy analysis of international trade, including that of Europe and of developing countries and has published in areas such as regional trading arrangements, trade and poverty, nontariff barriers, European integration, transition economies’ trade, international migration, agricultural protection and the world trading system.
Ernesto Zedillo is director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; professor in the field of international economics and politics; professor of international and area studies; and professor adjunct of forestry and environmental studies at Yale University. He served as president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. He is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human rights worldwide, as well as a member of the Group of 30. Zedillo is chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, and an international member of the American Philosophical Society. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the School of Economics of the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and his MA and PhD from Yale University.