Erik van der Marel

Associate Professor at College Of Europe, Chief Economist at European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Associate Professor at Université Libre De Bruxelles

Erik van der Marel is Chief Economist at ECIPE, Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and College of Europe, and Consultant Economist at the World Bank. His areas of expertise are in digital trade, services trade, cross-border data flows, and trade policy. Erik also works on the Digital Trade Integration (DTI) protect at the European University Institute (EUI). Prior to his appointment at ECIPE, Erik was lecturing full-time at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught international trade at post-graduate level. In the past, Erik also gained various professional experience as a consultant at the OECD, APEC, ADBI, ITC, and the World Bank Trade Research Department. Erik received his PhD in economics from Sciences-Po Paris and did his post-doctorate at the LSE. Erik has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, and made contributions to ECIPE, the World Bank, ITC and ADBI on digital trade and services, domestic regulations in digital services trade, and data flows. He has also provided capacity building courses for policy makers at National Ministries and taught at the EUI and World Trade Institute (WTI).