André SAPIR

Andre Sapir is Professor Emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Senior Fellow of Bruegel. Between 1990 and 2004, he was affiliated with the European Commission, first as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, and then as Principal Economic Advisor to President Romano Prodi. He has written extensively on trade policy, globalisation and European economic integration. His most recent book, with Petros Mavroidis, China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters, was published by Princeton University Press in 2021. He holds a PhD in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, where he worked under the supervision of Bela Balassa.