André Sapir

André Sapir is Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Senior Fellow of Bruegel, the European think tank. Previously, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the College of Europe in Bruges, and was visiting fellow at the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Between 1990 and 2004, he was affiliated with the European Commission, working first as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, and then as Principal Economic Advisor to President Romano Prodi. André Sapir has written extensively on trade policy, globalisation and European economic integration. His most recent book, co-authored 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. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium