Roberta Piermartini

Chief of Applied Economic Research at World Trade Organization

Roberta Piermartini is Chief of Applied Economic Research at the WTO. Her research focuses on trade and trade policy analysis. Her papers have been published in the European Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and the Journal of International Economics among others and various books. She is a lead author and coordinator of the World Trade Report and of various WTO joint publications with other international organizations. She is author of "A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Modelling" and "An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Modelling." She has served the WTO Dispute Settlement in several Panel and Arbitration cases. Prior to joining the WTO in 2000, she was lecturer in economics and statistics at the University of Southampton and research fellow in the research division of Confindustria. She also has been teaching at the University of Geneva and LUISS. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton.