Blanca Moreno-Dodson

Blanca Moreno-Dodson is the Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI). Moreno-Dodson holds a Ph.D., as well as a Master's in International Economics and Finance from the University of Aix-Marseille, France. She has over twenty-eight years of experience as a World Bank development economist, is a renowned book author on fiscal policy, and has also been published in several internationally renowned economic journals. She is a member of the Alumni Strategic Council of the Aix-Marseille University, the Steering Committee of the Navarra Center for International Development, and a guest lecturer at Duke University, ad Aix-Marseille University.

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo is a Lead Economist and a Global Lead at the World Bank in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, primarily working in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa Regions. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia and has also been published in several internationally renowned economic journals. In addition, she is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA) and the Mexican National Research System (SNI). Before joining the World Bank, she held high-level positions in the Government of Mexico, and she was a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Raymond Robertson holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, is the Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and is the Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn and a senior research fellow at the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center. In addition, he has taught at Syracuse University and Monterrey Institute of Technology's Mexico City campus. Widely published in the field of labor economics and international economics, Robertson previously chaired the US Department of Labor's National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of the US Free Trade Agreements and served on both the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the Center for Global Development's advisory board. 

Danny Leipziger

Danny Leipziger is the Managing Director of the Growth Dialogue and Professor of International Business at George Washington University. He is former World Bank Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM), and he was Vice-Chair of the Spence Commission on Growth and Development. He has served on the WEF's Council on InclW.E.F.'sowth and has written and lectured extensively on globalization, inequality, and development. Mr. Leipziger, a Ph. D. in economics from Brown University.

Chahir Zaki

Chahir Zaki is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. He also works for the Economic Research Forum as a part-time Senior Economist and consultant in the World Bank and the International Trade Center. He holds a MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. His research interests include international trade, trade policy, trade in services, applied economics, and macroeconomic modeling. He has published numerous studies in the International Trade Journal, the World Trade Review, Economic Modeling, and Applied Economics.
  

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Mariarosa Lunati
 

Daniel Lederman
 

Constantin Tsakas