Biography
Bernard Hoekman is part-time Professor and Director, Global Economics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2024 for a project studying Plurilateral Integration Agreements and Noneconomic Objectives (PIANO). Prior positions include Director of the International Trade Department and Research Manager in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has been an economist in the GATT Secretariat and held visiting positions at SciencesPo, Paris.
A graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is a CEPR Research Fellow, a Senior Associate of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab countries, Turkey and Iran; and a member of the ESRC-supported UK Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy.
Recent publications include Noneconomic Objectives, Globalization and Multilateral Trade Cooperation, London: CEPR Press, 2023 (with Petros Mavroidis and Douglas Nelson); Trade Policy, Openness and Development, World Trade Review, 22(3-4), 2023 (co-edited with Ingo Borchert); Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe, (co-edited with TU Xinquan and WANG Dong), CEPR Press, 2021 and Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past? (co-edited with Ernesto Zedillo), Washington DC: Brookings Institution 2021.