Bernard Hoekman

Bernard Hoekman is Director, Global Economics, Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute. He is a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the UK Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy and a senior associate of the Economic Research Forum. A graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on international trade and development, trade in services, public procurement, and multilateral cooperation.

Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at IMD Business School in Lausanne, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the policy portal VoxEU.org. He regularly advises governments and international organisations on globalisation and trade policy issues.
In 1990-91 he served as a Senior Staff Economist for President George Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, having completed his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman (with whom he has published a half dozen articles).