Biography
Simon Mevel is an Economic Affairs Officer in the African Trade Policy Centre at the Regional Integration and Trade Division of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Prior to joining the UN in 2011, he had been working successively for the University of Pau, the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations internationales (CEPII), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank. He has over 15 years of experience in assessment of trade and environmental reforms with a focus on development issues, and more than 40 publications to date. He has developed and conducted a number of capacity building programmes, particularly on trade policy analysis, in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mr. Mevel holds a PhD in international economics from the University of Bordeaux, France.