Bernard Hoekman

Bernard Hoekman is Professor and Program Director, Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy and currently chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council on Supply Chains and Logistics. He has held various senior positions at the World Bank, including Director of the International Trade Department and Research Manager in the Development Research Group. Prior to joining the World Bank he worked as an economist in the GATT Secretariat. He has published widely on trade policy and development, the global trading system, and trade in services. He is a graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and is a Research Fellow of the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Senior Associate of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab countries, Turkey and Iran.