Patrick Messerlin is professor of economics at the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, known as Sciences Po, and the director of the Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Po (GEM) since its creation in 1997. GEM is an independent research unit seeking to improve the performance of French and European public policies in a global world.
He has specialized in international trade and trade policy. His current research deals with (i) WTO issues (from the Doha Round to trade and climate change); (ii) liberalization in services and the associated regulatory reforms; and (iii) EC commercial and enlargement policies.
In 2001-2002, he was a special advisor to Mike Moore, WTO Director General. He also served as a member of the Preparatory Conference to the G7-G8 Summits (a group of independent persons gathered by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Tokyo Foundation). Since June 2008, he is serving as co-chair, with Ernest Zedillo, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, of the joint World Bank & UK Department for International Development Task Force on Global Finance and Trade Architecture. He is a member of the Global Trade Council of the World Economic Forum (2009-) and he is chairman of the steering committee of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).
After having been a visiting professor at the University of Houston (Texas) and at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia), he has been, from 1986 to 1990, a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the World Bank, and since then, a consultant to various international organizations, governments and firms.
His recent books include Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s, Institute for International Economics (Washington) 2001; Commerce international, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris) 1998; Antidumping Industrial Policy: Legalized Protectionism in the WTO and What to Do about it, (with Brian Hindley) American Enterprise Institute (Washington) 1996; La nouvelle organisation mondiale du commerce, Dunod (Paris) 1995. He has written a hundred articles for professional journals, including the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, World Economy, Economic Studies, European Economy and Revue Economique. |
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