Marc Bacchetta is Counsellor in the Economics Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization which he joined in 1996. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked on trade related issues at the World Bank, on leave from the WTO. His research focuses on market access and the labour market effects of trade reforms. He recently co-edited a volume on Making globalization socially sustainable and was one of the two coordinators of the preparation of World Trade Report 2012 on Non-Tariff Measures. He holds a PhD from the University of Geneva where he taught economics for six years.
