11 December 2018 WTO Headquarters, Room W Updating Trade Cooperation: An Economic View Biographies of Participants Kyle Bagwell is the Donald L. Lucas Endowed Professor in Economics at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Faculty Affiliate of the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development. He works in the fields of International Trade, Industrial Organization and Game Theory. His research examines a range of theoretical and empirical questions relating to the purpose and design of GATT/WTO. He also explores theories of competition and cooperation in settings where asymmetric information is present. His research has been published in numerous academic journals, and in a book, The Economics of the World Trading System, co-authored with Robert W. Staiger. Emily Blanchard is an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a Research Fellow with the Center for Economic Policy Research. She has written extensively on how foreign investment and global value chains are changing the role of trade agreements in the 21st century, and on how globalization and education shape political and economic outcomes within and across countries. Her research is published in leading journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the World Trade Review. Chad P. Bown is Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. With Soumaya Keynes, he co-hosts Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the economics of international trade policy. He is formerly a tenured Professor of Economics at Brandeis University, and he served as Senior Economist in the White House on the President's Council of Economic Advisers during 2010-2011. He spent a year in residence as a visiting scholar in Economic Research at the WTO Secretariat in Geneva. Before joining PIIE, he was a Lead Economist at the World Bank conducting research and advising developing country governments on trade policy. Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics and Research Associate of the Fund for Scientifi c Research. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) International Trade and Regional Economics Program, the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, and a CESifo Research Fellow. Her main research interests are in international trade, firm organization, and political economy. She has published in several leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy. Meredith A. Crowley is a Reader in International Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St. John’s College, and a Research Coordinator at Cambridge-INET. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Research Leader for the publicly-funded UK in a Changing Europe think tank. Her research on international trade, multinational trade agreements, and trade policy has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of International Economics and World Trade Review. Her research and opinions on international trade policy frequently appear in prominent media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Economist, and the BBC. Lionel Fontagné is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, and the Director of the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne. He is also a scientific advisor to the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), a CESifo Research Fellow and GTAP Research Fellow. Previously, he was the Director of CEPII and a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister). He also served as a Part time Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Free University of Brussels, as a Professor at the University of Nantes, as well as a consultant for the Bank of France, for the International Trade Center in Geneva, for the OECD Development Centre, for the OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Industry, for the World Bank, for the Ministry of Finance of the Luxembourg, and for the French Ministry of Finance. Joseph Francois is Managing Director and Professor of Economics at the World Trade Institute in Bern. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, Director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, Senior Research Fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. Pinelopi “Penny” Koujianou Goldberg is the Chief Economist of the World Bank. She is on public service leave from Yale University, where she is the Elihu Professor of Economics. She is Vice-President of the American Economic Association and on the Executive Committee of the Econometric Society. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of both Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships, and recipient of the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER – currently on leave) and board member of the Bureau of Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). From 2011-2017 she was Editor-in-Chief of the American Economic Review. She holds a Ph.D from Stanford University and a Diplom from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Anabel González is a global expert in economic development, focused on trade, regional integration and investment. She is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Trade and Foreign Investment, sits on several boards, and writes and presents on related topics. As former Senior Director of the World Bank´s Global Practice on Trade & Competitiveness, she led the Bank´s agenda on trade, investment climate, competitiveness, innovation and entrepreneurship. Bernard Hoekman is Professor and Director of Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a CEPR Research Fellow, where he also co-directs the Trade Policy Research Network; a Senior Associate of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab countries, Turkey and Iran. He chaired the 2018 Bertelsmann Foundation report on the Future of Global Trade Governance and has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Councils on International Trade and Investment and on Logistics and Supply Chains. He has published extensively on trade policy subjects and the WTO. Nuno Limão is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on international trade, trade policy, and political economy. His research integrates theoretical and empirical work to examine a variety of issues, such as how governments choose among redistribution policies, the determinants of trade policy and trade agreements, and the effects of trade costs and geographic location. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics. Patrick Low is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was with the GATT Secretariat in various capacities from 1980-87 and the WTO Secretariat from 1995-2013. He served as WTO Chief Economist from 1997 to 2013. From 1999 to 2001 he also served as WTO Director-General Mike Moore’s Chief of Staff. He worked in the field of trade policy research at the World Bank from 1990-94. He was a visiting professor at El Colegio de México from 1987to 1990 and anAdjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2004-13). He has written widely on a range of trade policy and related issues. Aaditya Mattoo is Research Manager, Trade and Integration, at the World Bank. He specializes in trade policy analysis and international trade agreements. He has published widely in academic and other journals on trade, trade in services, development and the WTO and his work has been cited extensively, including in the Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, and Time Magazine. Mauricio Mesquita Moreira is Chief Economist of the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He received a PhD in Economics from the University College London. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Mesquita Moreira held a position at the Research Department of the Development Bank of Brazil (BNDES), and taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the lead author of, among other studies, Connecting the Dots. A Road Map for a Better Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB 2018; Uncovering the Barriers of the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Trade. IDB, 2016; Too Far to Export: Domestic Transport Costs and Regional Export Disparities in Latin America. IDB, 2013; India: Latin America’s Next Big Thing? IDB, 2010; and Unclogging the Arteries: A Report on the Impact of Transport Costs on Latin American Trade. IDB and Harvard University Press 2008. Marcelo Olarreaga is Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. Before joining the University of Geneva he worked in the Research Department of the World Bank, as well as in the Economics Research Division of the World Trade Organization.