Simon Evenett

Simon J. Evenett is a Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD Business School in Switzerland and Founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade, the non-profit home of the Global Trade Alert, the Digital Policy Alert, and the New Industrial Policy Observatory--three independent monitoring initiatives on commercial policy changes. Professor Evenett and his team support Developing Country WTO Members to prepare for Trade Policy Reviews, supply them with trade policy dashboards, and provide evidence-driven thematic workshops on topics at the core of world trade. Professor Evenett is also Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Trade and Investment. Professor Evenett has taught at Oxford University and the University of St Gallen and has held Visiting Professorships at Johns Hopkins University (twice) and the University of Michigan (three times). He is a former World Bank official and has served on two commissions on the future of globalisation and the world trading system.