Please do join us in person or online for this report launch. Trade remains reslilient. We show how and why.

Want to learn about how global trade and gvcs are re-wiring in a changing global economy? Join us on Dec 18 at American University for the launch of the Global Value Chain Development Report 2025. Here is the registration link for the event -

The Washington DC launch of the Global Value Chain Development Report 2025 - Rewiring GVCs in a Changing Global Economy will be on December 18 at 1 pm @ AU's School of International Service as part of AU's Trade Today program. Bookmark the date & look for the reg. link soon.

I will also participate in a World Bank panel on November 20 celebrating the 5th anniversary WDR2020 report on GVCs.

I will participate in a discussion panel at the IMF 13th Statistical Forum on 19-20 November 2025, which is devoted to the topic of “Measuring Cross-Border Economic and Financial Linkages in a Dynamic World”. Register and join us here: https://t.co/L1aFLantsb #StatsForum #IMFData

If you happen to be in Geneva next week at the WTO Public Forum join us for the latest developments and insights on global value chains, with emphasis on how digital and mini agreements are shaping their reorganization...among other forces!

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Hi All, The AU SIS Dept of Politics, Government, and Economics is currently searching for an Asst Prof (tenure track) w research interests in economic security. See the job announcement here - American University Careers

Some slots available. Get up to speed on the relationship between regular trade data & various GVC data for policy & commercial impacts, do some case studies for global & US data, & introduce you to some of the leading edge efforts in network analysis of supply chains.

Interested in better understanding trade and supply chain linkages? Need to be able to find supply chain vulnerabilities? This workshop may be for you - Trade Today: Understanding and Identifying Risks in Global Value Chains – SIS International Trade

The @wto Chief Economist role is now open. I’ll be returning to the @ubscenter at @econ_uzh this summer, closing a chapter that has been the most rewarding of my career. Learn more and apply:

This is an excellent development. I hope the WTO can make this a regular event cutting across economics, political science, and law. It was hard to get support for such an event while I was there though we did host a couple. Congrats to @NOIweala & @OssaRalph!

This report reflects an important effort by International Organizations to coordinate & cooperate on climate change analysis. Long in process great to see a the result! See the links below in @OssaRalph posts & congrats to @BekkersEddy for his long dedication to this effort.

Great to see @goescarlos win this award. And while his research insights are invaluable he also points out that previous award winners have made important contributions to trade research. Great for the @wto to continue to recognize and encourage young minds to explore this area

Great opportunity here if you are interested and have the right skill set!

Unfortunately sounds like back to the bad old days. No institution is perfect, but the ITC is a high quality, independent government body with deep expertise & 6 political leaders w/ diverse views. Treating staff and other colleagues with respect is not too much to expect.n/n

Told potential Commissioner nominees to “behave.” And they seemed to while I was there - though Commissioners always asked tough questions and probed our analysis deeply - but no overt attempts to bring in ideological arguments over logical and analytical reasoning.

Strife from about a decade earlier. It was in the news as Commissioners had accused each other of leaking study results and/or aggressively trying to shape findings based on their ideology. Procedures were established to minimize those behaviors and Congress apparently

Economists have known for decades that there are winners and losers from trade. Policymakers often wanted to hear about only the winners or only the losers. The ITC reports walked a fine line. When I arrived at the ITC in 1999 it was recovering from internal Commissioner

More technical is the analysis. Many anti trade folks seem to want to use tools and techniques that frankly did not stand up well to objective, technical review. That’s more science and expertise vs ideological.