PhD in Economics, MIT. Formerly: with University of Oxford and Columbia Business School; Editor and Founder, VoxEU.org; Senior Staff Economist, President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors; consultant to many governments and international organizations on trade and investment policy. Currently, Professor, EPFL. Widely published author on trade, globalization and European integration. Author of The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization (2016).