Marion Jansen Chief Economist, International Trade Centre (ITC) Marion is the Chief Economist of ITC and in this position responsible for the recently launched ITC flagship publication “SME Competitiveness Outlook 2015”. Previous to joining ITC, Marion was a counsellor in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization, an organization she first joined in 1999 after a short spell in the private sector (London, UK). From 2009 to 2012 she was the head of Trade and Employment Programme at the ILO.

Her publications in the field of international trade and global governance include a volume on the internationalization of financial services and articles on regional services liberalization. She is currently co-editing a volume on the “Economics of Trade Disputes and Investor-State Disputes” (CUP).

Marion holds a PhD in economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and has lectured in different academic institutions on international economics, managerial economics and on the socio-economic impacts of globalization. She is an associate editor of International Economics and chairs the supervisory committee of PRONTO, a pan-European research network on Non-Tariff Measures.