L Alan Winters

Professor of Economics at University Of Sussex

Winters is Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and Founder and Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory. He is a CEPR Research Fellow and has served as Co-Director of the Centre's International Trade Programme. He has also been Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development (2008-11), Director of the Development Research Group (2004-7), Division Chief and Research Manager (1994-9), and Economist (1983-5) at the World Bank. He has been Editor of the World Bank Economic Review and Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and is currently edtor of The World Trade Review . He has advised, inter alia, the OECD, DfID, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank.